HONDA’S ‘School of Dreams’ team visited Matravers School and provided a free two-day ‘thinking skills’ workshop.
9-13 year old students participated in a workshop supported by Blade Honda, based in Chippenham, on Tuesday 11th and Wednesday 12th February. Staff from the company also participated 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.
Students are encouraged to become ‘sharers’ and ‘doers’, by taking what they have learnt and organising team projects which aim to change something in their local community for the better.
According to a Honda spokesperson, “It is estimated that to date more than 30,000 further students and educators have benefitted from the cascade programme.
“The School of Dreams programme has been carefully mapped against the National Curriculum’s personal learning and thinking skills framework. Over the course of the two days students 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.”
Simon Hawker, dealer principal at Blade Honda said, “It is great to support the workshop in our local school. To help children understand they can turn their dreams into reality by learning to use strategies in their early lives will undoubtedly have a positive effect on the local community.
“We believe children and young adults deserve all the help they can get.”
After completing the two-day workshop, the children have been asked to make a presentation to parents, governors and teachers on something in the community or world that they would like to change.
