Creative design and urban planning challenge, making children aware how the city works and what it takes to design one.…
Kids have tested several origami techniques in creating animals. Some folding instructions required quite a bit of patience and perseverance, but…
New year started with 3D Geometric challenge, constructing 3D Forms out of paper triangles. We have thoroughly practiced counting! Depending…
With Festive Season and the end of the year approaching fast I would like to take this opportunity, to wish…
Dates for the Spring Term 2018: 1. 09-Jan-18 2. 16-Jan-18 3. 23-Jan-18 4. 30-Jan-18 5. 06-Feb-18 13-Feb-18 – Half term…
With Christmas approaching fast Kids have been busy creating some geometric modular elements, that could be assembled in various ways…
We had couple of exciting workshops this week, putting our engineering hats on and designing our own… bridges! Children faced…
The workshop was about learning differences between translucent, transparent and opaque materials. Children have experimented, how using this knowledge…
Fun workshop creating crazy monsters bookmarks. Learning some origami based paper folding techniques and using colour paper and markers kids…
We had lots of creative fun in preparations for the Halloween. Kids have made Scary Eyes lanterns, pumpkins, spiders and…
Last workshop at Thornhill before the half term break. We have reached to the stars and let the imagination run…
Top Secret Books. Creating Magic of books. A notebook, story book, of your own design, that you can keep all…
The workshop came with a double challenge: kids learned how to make versatile, rigid straws out of recycled magazines and…
Autumn term started at Thornhill Primary with paper version of a fidget spinner: the kaleidocycle. What is a kaleidocycle? The…
Thornhill Architecture Club last session this term was testing kid’s engineering and teamwork skills. Children have shown amazing focus and…
This week we have made a real extendable periscope! Kids were really focused, putting all required elements in a right…
With Summer holidays approaching I have decided to share some ideas for spending time together, playing board games. After hot…
This week, both at Thornhill Primary and Elizabeth House we have been creating 3-dimensional letters. The exercise required focus and…
I have tested kids knowledge of London’s landmarks and important places. We have discussed what makes a landmark, which buildings/places they…
After half term break our first design was the tree house. A seemingly simple subject came with challenges of balancing different…