We have a regular core community of learners and most of our workshops are now full.
Please email us to find out which sessions still have spaces or if you would like to be added to our waiting list .
Summer Term Programme
We are excited to continue our rolling programme of workshops - following conversations with our parent community, facilitators, and newly formed Youth Advisory Board we are making some changes. We are opening up some new sessions, continuing to build new partnerships which offer exciting opportunities and widening our collaborations across the city and online. We keep people updated through our newsletter.
Our wider partnerships continue with the Science Creates Outreach team, our own Duolingo classroom, creating learning journeys with Lyfta and with online provider Pass Functional Skills. We are excited to be partnering with Jake at the Humanatees Tutor, Tom at Yellow Wood, and Gemma at Green Fox art workshops. We have both students and researchers from University of Bristol working with us and have developing partnerships with the RSA, Bio-leadership Fellowship, The Visionaries, Bristol Aquarium, and Little Pine Therapeutic. We are conversation with the Bristol Old Vic planning drama workshops for September.
All our workshops unless specified are in our Hub, a self contained space at City of Bristol College, find us on google maps.
All our sessions are aimed at young people age 12+ .
Workshops dates:
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Term 5: 28 April 2025 to 23 May 2025
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Term 6: 2 June 2025 to 27th June 2025
Timings:
Mornings are 10:45am - 1pm
Afternoons 1:45pm - 4pm
Learners booked for morning and afternoon workshops are welcome to stay and bring their own lunch.
For full details please click on the sessions below.
The Hub workshops and city wide opportunities are to support parents whose children are not in full time school by supplementing the learning taking place at home and elsewhere. Whilst we offer some wonderful learning opportunities in the Hub, the responsibility for providing a full-time education remains with the parents.
Monday Creative Art workshops
Our creative art workshops offer different learning opportunities.
The focus is for creative skills to be developed & confidence to be grown.
Wednesday Language
Cafe
Learn through an immersive language experience in our conversational language cafe; beginners Spanish, German & French & intermediate Spanish.
Friday Science Creates
Workshops
Join our workshops in the Learning Lab at the Old Market incubator.
These are led by the Science Creates Outreach team in collaboration with the innovative companies in residence.
Functional Skill online platform
We have partnered with Pass Functional Skills to enable access to the online learning platform.
Learners can complete Level 1 2 in both English & Maths, as well as take their exam online at home when ready.
Tuesday Innovate & Create workshop
Explore different project based challenges within Science, Technology, & Engineering.
Wednesday Functional Skills Maths
Small group sessions. Following the Functional Skills Maths Level 1 & 2 curriculum equipping the young person to take the Functional Skills exam if they choose.
Marine Science iGCSE
online & practical days
We are excited to be collaborating with Jake at Humanatees Tutor - he will teach course content & the Hub team will run the practical days at the Aquarium & Science Creates.
Art GCSE online & in-person practical workshops
Starting in September Gemma (Green Fox) will offer online art sessions, once a term in person workshops will be facilitated by Gemma & the Hub team & be at Spike Island.
Tuesday Entrepreneurship workshop
This afternoon workshop will challenge young people interested in entrepreneurship;
opportunities to grow & develop an idea.
Wednesday Creative Writing & Media Skills
English will look different this term. Creative writing opportunities will be integrated into the new workshop ‘Young Creators Media’ . We will create an online Hub newspaper.
Lyfta - online global
citizen programme
Explore the world with Lyfta’s immersive learning platform with new storyworlds released each month.
GCSE English Language
Starting in June Tom (Yellow Wood) will offer in person weekly English Language workshops in Backwell Common - inviting learners to work towards their GCSE.
Our community is growing and we are always open to new young people joining us.
For our regular workshops we are always keen to meet potential new learners to ensure we can welcome them well into our community. Please reach out and say hello.
If your young person has SEN then it is essential we have a conversation before you book,
we are a small team and need to ensure we can support your young person well.
Bookings
We are using Kids Club HQ to take bookings as it is Ofsted compliant and enables us to hold young people's data securely and create a simple booking system for this pilot season.
You can find a user guide here.
