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GREAT SANKEY HIGH SCHOOL BECOMES A ‘SCHOOL OF DREAMS’!

Honda’s ‘School of Dreams’ team will visit Great Sankey High School in Warrington on Tuesday 4th and Wednesday 5th October to provide a free two-day ‘thinking skills’ workshop for 9-13 year old pupils (key stage 2 & 3) and educators. The workshop will be supported by Lightcliffe Honda, also based in Warrington, and staff from the company will also participate in the workshop along with the students and teachers.

The School of Dreams programme helps young people to understand the importance of pursuing their dreams, and teaches skills and strategies to help turn their dreams into reality. It was developed by Honda (UK) and a team of independent education experts as part of Honda’s commitment to giving back to the local communities in which it operates. School of Dreams helps students and educators discover different, creative and fun ways to learn.

Over the last four years, School of Dreams has been delivered in more than 140 schools across the UK, directly engaging around 7,000 students and educators. Additionally almost 8,000 further students and educators have engaged indirectly through a ‘cascade’ programme which encourages those who have been involved to pass on what they have learnt to their peers.

The School of Dreams has been carefully mapped against the National Curriculum’s Personal Learning and Thinking Skills framework. Over the course of the two days pupils experience all ten of the learning strategies identified in the ‘Leading in Learning’ education initiative. Special care has also been taken to ensure that all material from Honda is directly relevant to teaching objectives and the framework enables students and educators to cascade the programme once they have taken part.

The workshop is challenging but great fun, teachers and pupils work at the same level in small groups learning how to turn their dreams into reality by learning from real life examples of people who have achieved their dreams and developing new skills such as juggling.

There are 50 schools taking part in the current workshop programme. For further information please visit www.schoolofdreams.co.uk