This is the sixth Homeschooler Session, which will start to emphasise developing ideas of Projects to make, ideally using some of the skills we've been learning over the past few weeks such as Textiles and Woodwork. We will still have people around to show new attendees the basics and to teach more advanced skills.

I will be doing a separate Knife Carving session to a restricted number of children (just 4), the booking link for the Knife Carving session is here: http://homeschoolers-knifecarving.eventbrite.co.uk Only those who have booked for the knife carving session will be able to participate in the knife carving session. Booking link: http://homeschoolers-knifecarving2.eventbrite.co.uk

Consider having a look at Instructables for some ideas/inspiration for things to make, although there are many hundreds of other sites to look at that might inspire you and your children to decide what you would like to make. Joint parent-child projects will help you to work and learn new skills together.

Each week we'll try to include some new skills, and we aim that over time the children develop real, useful, and transferable skills, that they can start to use to make projects at Hackspace and at home. For us it's not about providing a one-afternoon-of-creativity 'Experience' like a school trip, with nothing to follow it, we're aiming for self-directed confident 'hackers'*. We're still learning ourselves about how best to deliver these sessions and make them the best they can be for homeschoolers, so we really appreciate your feedback and ideas.

You can see some exapmles on our blog: https://leighhackspace.tumblr.com/

(*'hackers' in this sense refers to capable, knowledgeable, yet playful, tinkerers and makers. Not malicious computer hacking.)

Future sessions will cover a range of practical subjects possibly including: textiles, sewing, knitting, crochet, 3D printing, Spanish, and computer programming, electronics, photography, even yoga, relaxation, health, and medicine. We're happy to plan a schedule according to the requests and needs of the local homeschooling community. To join in the discussion about Leigh Hackspace Homeschoolers' Sessions, and suggest ideas or request taught skills, join our forum at http://discourse.leighhack.org/c/homeschoolers-sessions

Sessions are £5 per child for 3 hours. Children need to be DIRECTLY SUPERVISED by their parents throughout, this is for safety but also we MUST have parental engagement in order to maximise the educational benefits. (Basically, you're homeschoolers, right? To teach your kids stuff we must also teach you! :-). )

Members of Hackspace get a 50% discount and advance notice of the sessions! See how to join up here: http://www.leighhack.org/membership.

About Leigh Hackspace:

Leigh Hackspace was founded in 2015 as an 'open social making community', providing shared space and equipment to its members, to allow them to learn from each other in a peer-to-peer learning style, to inspire each other, and create cool stuff together. Today, we have a community of over 500 on our Facebook group, and over 40 regular members who use the space.

We have a community that includes artists, photographers, coders, poets, people who sew, knit, weave and crochet, knot-tyers, electronics specialists, musicians, woodworkers, and many more. We have regular 'club nights' such as 'Electronics Nite' on Tuesdays, 'Photography Club' on Wednesdays, and 'Code Club' on Thursdays. (Code Club is free to attend from 6-7pm, and is part of the national www.codeclub.org.uk scheme)

We have great facilities and are probably one of the largest Hackspaces in the UK. We have only one rule at the Hackspace: "Be Excellent To Each Other" - which allows us to act flexibly, responsibly, and in the best interests of our community, and also empowers our members to collaborate positively, understand each others' differences and share our space.

For more information see our website: www.leighhack.org, join our facebook group http://www.facebook.com/groups/leighhackspace/

Leigh Hackspace Homeschoolers' Sessions - #6: Let's Make Projects....

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