Brain Blaster
Turn your students into independent thinkers and learners.
Brain Blaster is a completely new concept in school workshops. Nothing like this have ever been done before! With your students in teams, it uses bizarre maths, 3D team challenges, blindfolded fishing and much more... all in your school hall, and with up to 300 of your students per day.
What is Brain Blaster Workshop?
The theories are based on Art L Costa's 'Habits of Mind' - a series of life skills which every person needs in order to confront and overcome problems and challenges and operate effectively in society.
This highly interactive set of workshops will help to arm your students with the skills to work through real life challenges and situations, allowing them to respond with awareness, creativity and deliberate strategies, in order to achieve a positive outcome. It will help them to become resilient and encourage them to persevere.
Our workshops will help to arm your students with the skills to work through real life challenges and situations, allowing them to respond with awareness, creativity and deliberate strategies, in order to achieve a positive outcome. It will help them to become resilient and encourage them to persevere.
Every student is good at something. As teachers, you want to help each one to find out what that is, and then nurture it. However, you don’t just want your students to be good at what they do, you want them to be AWESOME at it, and we are about to help YOUR students to get there.
How To Structure Your Workshop
Reception to Post 16
Fully DBS checked
300 students per day
60 students per session
This workshop is great for developing...
- Persisting
- Thinking and communicating with clarity and precision
- Managing impulsivity
- Listening with understanding and empathy
- Creating, imagining, and innovating
- Thinking flexibly
- Thinking about thinking (metacognition)
- Taking responsible risks
- Questioning and posing problems
- Thinking interdependently
- Applying past knowledge to new situations
- Remaining open to continuous learning
Feedback On Our Brain Blaster Workshops
"We had been full of anticipation and excitement about our Happy Puzzle day and we were not disappointed. Throughout the sessions, students were completely engrossed and engaged with their team problem solving. The collaboration and determination needed to complete tasks was at the right level for each class that attended. The presenter was very professional, knowledgeable and a delight to work with."
Ms Brewer,
Teacher
“I would recommend this to other schools because it involves and excites every child, teaching them great problem solving skills. It is always well organised and the team who run it are very professional with the children. The family workshop and shop after school was also a great addition to our workshop.”
Michelle McNamee,
Teacher
"The Brain Blaster experience is a wonderful example of how to teach maths in a way that captures pupils imagination and develop their natural ability to problem solve, giving them the skills of resilience. For all those teachers out there who indulged in endless rote learning of strategies and enjoy the sound of your own voice this is not for you. For those teachers who enjoy watching pupils construct their own understanding of mathematical concepts you will love this. I can't recommend it highly enough."
Jane Fletcher,
Subject Lead - Primary School
Key takeaways from our workshop include...
"Never Give Up!"
"The importance of working as a team"
"That nothing needs to be impossible"
Many schools host a BRAIN BLASTERS programme... Are You?
- As an activity to help develop thinking skills.
- As part of an activity week, maths week or enrichment week
- As a team-building activity that will benefit students of all abilities, including those with specific learning difficulties.
- As a beginning/end of year activity for a class or a year group, or for students visiting from other schools
- As an INSET programme for staff