Course News

An occasional paper by Dr William Lockitt Intended Audience The paper is aimed at raising awareness to the importance of play in education and highlight some of the current research available. It is hoped that teachers, parents, home educators and others interested in developing play activities will find it useful. Use the links at the end of the paper to …

Making a difference with the Reaching Wider Partnership With support from the North and Mid Wales Reaching Wider Partnership G2G Communities CIC is providing high quality indoor/outdoor experiences to a total of 61 pupils from Key Stage 2 in Flintshire, Denbighshire and Conwy visiting Conwy Castle and producing multimedia animated video’s and exploring medieval castles using Minecraft Education. During the programme …

G2G Communities is involved in the Cloud 9 Initiative to deliver quality trainers and training materials to children and families. G2G Communities and 4TC are developing the programme to deliver it in other schools in North Wales. The Cloud 9 Initiative Project was developed to achieve the following objectives: To ensure that children and families with greatest need have access to computers and the Internet …

Kids Learn to Code with Scratch Programming and LEGO Robotics We have been working with the local primary schools to deliver our Scratch Programming and LEGO Robotics sessions to their pupils, who have been visiting our learning centre in Rhyl, learning how to code while having fun. By using Scratch you can create interactive stories, games, art, simulations and animations …

G2G Communities encourage learners to use technical skills, build tools to solve problems, from using apps to make animations to designing and making moving vehicles powered by bands and balloons. During Tim Peakes mission students will have lots of opportunities to follow his journey, to learn about the science behind microgravity and weightlessness and the effect on the human body. …

The Deputy Head Teacher Mr. Bennett and ten pupils from Christchurch School visited us at our Learning Centre and LEGO Education Innovation Studio in Rhyl to start a series of Scratch programming and coding sessions. With their first Scratch programming session with us everyone had a great time and had lots of fun, we will soon feature a range of …

G2G Communities CIC are running a Home Education Academy starting on Monday 1st of June, the 3 sessions will be working on iPads to create digital animations and stories using LEGO. The children will think of their own story then use the LEGO to make it a reality, recording it using iPads then putting it all together with music and …

What are our learners saying about our First Aid courses: ‘This has been the best delivered course I have been on in years’ ‘Very funny and a great gift for imparting knowledge’ ‘Great course and fantastic trainer’ ‘The course was perfect, plenty of fun, laughter and learning’ ‘Dave made it very enjoyable, light-hearted and interesting’ ‘Excellent all round’ ‘Fantastic location …

Participants of the G2G Communities CIC WCVA Gateway project phase 3 ‘New Skills New Life’ enjoying the first day of a three day ‘Introduction to Coppicing’ course at the Woodland Skills Centre in Bodfari. The weather was great and after the introduction, safety and tool identification/use all participants went out into the woods to gather the materials to build a …

G2G Communities CIC, in partnership with Penycae CP School and Reaching Wider Partnership initiative delivered a Digital Storytelling course using iPads. The course was for two hours per week for four weeks and twenty parents/family members and their children took part. The course was funded under the Reaching Wider Partnership, supported by Aberystwyth University and delivered by G2G Communities CIC. …