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Mancala
We are now in our fifth year of the Saturday Academy at Nythe which we think is an accolade to the children and their families at Nythe. At Nythe everybody has embraced learning to learn and we are now not only seeing the children move successfully and confidently to secondary school; we are hearing about children who have enjoyed our workshops going on to University, some of them to science, technology and engineering courses. We are even meeting the next generation with new babies arriving all the time. The youngest at the Mancala workshop was 9 weeks old! But it is not only the young who enjoy the Saturday Academy, grandparents regularly visit and are amazed to see children enjoying learning with their families on a weekend, dispelling many of the pre-conceptions about children today being isolated and not able to communicate with confidence across the generations.
The families of Nythe school can really call themselves a Learning Community,
which is great because this year is all about community, or to use the technical
jargon Community Cohesion. Whether it is belonging to a family, a school,
a town, a region, a country or the wider world we are all part of a community
which will have its own ideas, traditions and celebrations. This year Jim
and I took The Learning Tree project, and in particular ‘321 Blast Off’, to
Bangalore,
Mancala is a game that is played across the world community, from Africa to
Asia. it is played on the street by children and adults with something as simple
as shells and dips scooped out of the ground, and in homes it is played We made our Mancala boards from recycled material and had a great time learning to play the game.
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