Wholistic Creativity & STEM
A class in the three skills that decide most of what follows: speaking, writing, and the quality of your ideas. A small group meets live online every two weeks, drawing, journaling, and working on a project of their own, one STEM concept at a time.
How a class runs
- 01Welcome and check-in: names, ages, and an icebreaker question.
- 02A drawing prompt tied to the day’s concept.
- 03A journaling prompt on the same concept, optional to complete.
- 04A STEM concept, explained, then everyone says how they understand it.
- 05Project time: everyone builds something they are curious about, then shares.
- 06Closing circle: everyone shares one thing they learned.
min
Welcome and check-in
Everyone introduces themselves: name, age, and one thing they are interested in right now, plus an icebreaker question, a new one every class.
min
Free drawing
One drawing prompt, tied to the day’s main concept, given fresh each class.
min
Free journaling
One writing prompt, related to the same concept, optional to complete.
min
The STEM concept
A new idea, for example what is a computer, presented to the group. Then everyone goes around and says how they understand it, in their own words.
min
Project time
Each child works on their own project, something they are genuinely curious about: researching, drawing, writing, building with their hands, or creating on the computer. The teacher is available throughout for questions: what to make, what to learn, what resources exist, how to get unstuck. At the end, everyone goes around and shares what they worked on, about sixty seconds each.
min
Closing circle
Everyone shares one thing they learned in the class.
After every class
Everything below is in the parent portal as soon as the class ends.
- The full class recording
- A full text transcript
- Summary notes from the session
- For each child, a short 30 to 90 second highlight video of the moments they spoke and what they created
- Five key things each child learned or expressed in the class
- Five things each child would benefit from learning, doing, practising, or paying attention to next
Every video is downloadable, and parents can leave notes or messages for the teacher directly in the portal.
Class times
Every class is capped at 5 children and 1 teacher, so every child gets real time to speak, share and be heard. The class schedule is coming soon. Classes are likely to start in late September or early October. Leave your details below and we will send you the times as soon as they are set.
The classes
They build on each other and compound.
Meet the Computer: Wholistic Creativity & STEM
Breathing and movement, free drawing and expressive writing, and a first STEM lesson: what a computer actually is, explained for every age.
What Is AI? Learning from Examples
How computers learn from lots of examples, the same way we learned what a cat is, plus the story of AI, the people who built it, and where it goes next.
What Is a Blockchain? The Notebook Nobody Can Erase
How a lot of people can agree on what is true when nobody is in charge, plus the thirty-year story behind it, and why some things belong on a wall and some belong in your notebook.
What Is the Internet? Millions of Computers Passing Notes
How a message is chopped into pieces that each find their own way across the world, plus the hundred-year story behind it, and why being reachable by five billion people is not the same as being known by five.
What Is Encryption? Hiding the Key, Not the Message
How a message can be carried by thousands of strangers, read by any of them, and still be a secret, plus the four-thousand-year story behind it, and why the maths is never the weak point.