In the afternoon students participated in lateral thinking workshops - challenging them 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. 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.
Ximena and Daniel stood out in terms of how well they tackled the challenges. They showed excellent creative thinking and problem solving!
A special workshop on terrorism was
available for particulary interested students – mainly those with
an interest in history/politics. In the terrorism workshop students
were challenged to explore the issue in an academic way, exploring
case studies, definitions and how we view terrorism versus other forms of violent action.
In the evening students enjoyed
traditional fish n chips, followed by a chilled out film night, with horror films on show as well as Mean Girls for the easily frightened!
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