Students had individual tutorials today where they recieved one-to-one tuition, apart from Medicine and Psychology students, who have theirs tomorrow. These tutorials were valuable for the students and allowed them to get one on one feedback about their work, as well as discussing their subject in a way tailored to them rather than a group. Olivia's tutorial focused on exploring the work she has done so far in more detail, whereas others focused more on feedback for a particular piece of work.
Students then braved the intense sun to make their way to a lateral thinking workshop. This workshop challenged students to think laterally through a variety of games and exercises. Interestingly many students first thought that lateral thinking was thinking logically to solve complex problems - by the end of the workshop they learnt that lateral thinking more involved thinking creatively or differently about a problem.
Students played games, including the scissors game, where students had to figure out a rule as to when the words "crossed" or "uncrossed" were correct or incorrect. Some students, such as Brett and Alex, picked up on the rule immediately. Others, such as Diletta and Will, were sure they had figured out the rule but actually had found a different one whilst others such as Yuval and Claire found it very difficult to determine the rule!
Talking about these differences revealed that those who struggled to find the rule were often over-thinking or looking for a complicated pattern when the rule was actually very simple. It showed how even coming up with a clever way of tackling a plan can be unhelpful, and highlighted the importance of recognising the need to change strategy sometimes.
Then it was back to the accomodation for enormous portions of traditional British fish n' chips. The rest of the evening was spent in the sunny garden playing football, frisbee and guitar playing! The football got very competitive, even involving plots from Irene to hide a certain team member's shoe!
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