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Game-Plan PDF Print E-mail

The Game-Plan project funded by Sandwell MBC and led by Digital Native Academy to engage local communities into master planning by using computer games technologies to develop skills that help people gain a better understanding of the skills and knowledge to contribute to the process.

Activities have been happening all over Sandwell to engage audiences using a wide range of gaming technologies through specific programmes that help develop skills in people to understand built environments and consultation.

Activities in schools have seen young people take on ‘The den’ in which groups of young people worked as companies consisting of construction, business and project directors all working towards one goal; to present their ideas for a real location in front of public & private professionals who acted as dragons.

Groups from the local Sandwell Tenants and Residents Association have joined the Game-Plan project to further their skills through an ASDAN award aimed to develop a range of community focused skills, initially engaged through games activities which have progressed with visits to Parliament and local football clubs, such as Birmingham FC.

Young people from local schools have been engaged in computer and video gaming activities over half term and summer holidays designed to support the development of their creative ideas for areas scheduled for regeneration.

Please visit the Game-Plan web sites below to learn more and interact in the 3D environments. 

Game-Plan: Charlemont Farm

Game-Plan: Tibbington

 
ASDAN AWARDS at LPF PDF Print E-mail
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ASDAN AWARDS CENTRE

LearnPlay Foundation is pleased to announce that it is now a registered ASDAN short courses centre. This means that as well as our engagement and soft skills courses and sessions, we are now able to offer accredited learning which still uses our unique console and gaming approach.

Since achieving registered status on 26 January 2010, we are pleased to announce we have awarded nearly 100 ASDAN awards

We are currently delivering the following ASDAN Awards courses: Activities with Peer Tutoring, Citizenship, Active Citizenship, Peer Mentoring, Community Involvement & Volunteering, AimHigher, Enterprise, English and Expressive Arts.
 
The World of Yoghurt... PDF Print E-mail

Looking for Yoghurt is a play that has been written & directed by Peter Wynne-Willson (Hanyong Theatre) and is currently running at the Birmingham Rep until 30 May. LearnPlay Foundation worked with the director and Reaside Junior School to develop a fully playable level in Little Big Planet on Sony's PlayStation 3. The level draws on key concepts and storylines from the play and has been published on the Little Big Planet community. It has been attracting great interest and great ratings from the PS3 LBP community. It's not easy! You will encounter giant spiders and friendly snakes...to try it out,  go to our Homepage and click on 'The World of Yogurt' in the main section for access details.

The best of luck to you!
 
LearnPlay Foundation Launches New Web Site… PDF Print E-mail

Welcome to the new LearnPlay Foundation web site! We hope you like it and more importantly, we hope that it will now be easier for you to find out more about us, get what you are looking for and take part in some of our polls (you can win prizes if you do)

It matters what you think of the site, as it has been redeveloped with you in mind. If we have omitted something or you find it hard to get what you need from the site…let us know and we will send you something for your trouble.
 
LearnPlay Foundation Enters Sandwell Youth Services Directory… PDF Print E-mail
LearnPlay Foundation has successfully met the criteria to be entered into Sandwell Metropolitan Borough Council’s Youth Services Directory for the provision of Engagement to Learning sessions and programmes. This is great news for us and a very important win as it will allow Youth Services to call on our services to help engage NEETS back into learning throughout the Borough..
 
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‘We have worked with LearnPlay Foundation for two academic years and have found them to be passionate about their delivery, easy to work with and very committed to ensuring that our young people are engaged and switched on to learning.

They have delivered 2 Family Learning programmes for our children and their parents/guardians.  These programmes have been immensely successful in regards to connecting parents and children, helping create a shared interest and strengthening the family dynamic through positive communication and active listening. 

LearnPlay Foundation have also delivered a Teach the Teacher programme which has helped our teachers bring their lessons and parts of the curriculum to ‘life’ through the identification of relevant learning games and development tools which compliment areas within the curriculum, This has assisted engagement and learning reinforcement in some of the more dry areas of the curriculum.

Wendy Briscoe Head Teacher Graiseley Primary School