Educraft and Walsall Council have teamed up this summer to support the Government’s “HAF” (Holiday Activities and Food) Programme.
Our free, four day holiday clubs feature coding, craft and video game design. They are exclusively for children and young people aged between 8 and 14 who receive benefit related free school meals.
Attendees will receive a free, healthy plant-based hot lunch together with healthy snacks and refreshments throughout the day.
There are 4 activity days at each course and you can choose mornings (9am-1pm) or afternoons (1pm-5pm) on the following weeks:
Monday 31st July – Thursday 3rd August 2023 at Rivers Primary Academy, Livingstone Rd, Bloxwich, Walsall WS3 1LY.
Monday 21st August – Thursday 24th August 2023 at Abbey Primary School, 257 Glastonbury Cres, Bloxwich, Walsall WS3 2RP
Bookings go live on 3RD JULY and to book places please log into the Walsall Holiday Activities and Food programme website, search for the ‘Pixel Power’ (for Rivers Primary Academy) or ‘Pixel Dash’ (for Abbey Primary School) activity and book your child’s place. There are just 30 places available for the week, so please book early to avoid disappointment.
Alternatively, please contact us via email at hello@educraft.uk and advise us of the HAF Code(s) for each eligible child that you would like to book onto the club, together with their full name, date of birth and the name of the school that they attend.
Note – parents and carers should have received a letter, containing a unique HAF code for each eligible child together with information about how to register. If you haven’t received a letter and feel that you are eligible, please email the council’s HAF team at WR4C@walsall.gov.uk. You only need to register once for the 2023-2024 programme and you can access your account throughout the year.
Here are just some of the exciting activities we have lined up…
Pixel Dash – A themed retro game design workshop where you get to design graphics and levels using our ‘Pixel Dash’ game engine. Unleash your creativity to create pixel art graphics and animations, design taxing levels and then make coding modifications to the game engine.Pixel Power! Blitz – Design and animate video game graphics using BBC BASIC, the language of the original educational computer, the BBC Micro. Then take the knowledge learned to customise and play your own version of the classic video game Blitz!Pixel Power! Invaders – Another chance to design and animate video game graphics using BBC BASIC. This time we will take the knowledge learned to customise and play our own versions of a classic Invaders video game.
Further Activities
Beadcraft – creating unique or pre-designed pixel sprites using fuse-beads and turning them into beautiful key-rings or jewellery to take home.
Papercraft – build paper models of classic computers or even a cool Minecraft diorama.
Physical Activity – Continuing the video game theme, our physical activity session lets you dance along to songs like the Super Mario theme and the Pac-man dance, or follow choreographed lightsaber sequences in time to music.
Video Games – Arcade classics from the early 1980s including Pac Man, Frogger and Space Invaders. Classic Nintendo games including the original Super Mario Brothers. Classic SEGA games, including the original version of Sonic the Hedgehog. Or unleash your creativity on Minecraft – Pi Edition.
Free Food (and healthy eating discussion) – A nutritious, locally prepared plant-based lunch and an informative and interactive talk about the benefits of a plant-based diet.
Board Games – a wide selection of board games are available that help develop thinking abilities and life skills.
Educraft are specialists in providing technology-based workshops to schools, museums and events across the UK and abroad. Our goal is to educate and inspire children towards a career in creative computer arts through the use of unusual and obscure tech.
