Festival Events:

There'll be drumming, a high altitude balloon launch, dancing, a special CSI forensics workshop, spoken word revealing the big ideas of maths (& science) and many more fun talks, shows and workshops.

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Event 0 - Dark & Wild – Black Science – The Relaunch !

• Saturday 29th February 2020 7pm to 12am (Cafe Zone)

 

• Creative Learning Festival launch event
• “What’s the Big Idea” 
  • music video pre-launch party.
• Abit and the Point of Origin
  • Praying mantis puppet drama performance exploring the origins of number
• Pop-Up Planetarium: Part 2 - Beyond Our Solar System (in Cafe Zone – with internal Geodesic Dome!)
  • Come with us on a 3D multimedia journey beyond our Solar System. We’ll be travelling in our handmade cardboard planetarium (a huge geodesic domed hut that our members made from scratch a year or so ago).

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Event 1 - Pop-Up Community Science Lab - Inside Chestnuts Park (#BSW20)

• Sunday 8th  March 2020 12pm to 6pm (Chestnuts Park & A1)
• With the themes of basic environmental testing, climate change and community seed banking.

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Event 1 (Compliment) - Share in a Ghanaian (Karibu “Welcome”) Meal with our cooperative members and staff teams.

• Sunday 8th  March 2020 6.30pm (Cafe Zone)
• Attendees of the Festival are invited to come together for a wonderful Ghana meal at the Chestnuts, catering provided by Akala, (discounted meal charges apply).

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Event 2 - Learning STEM with African Drumming – Masterclass led by Astehmari Batekun

• Monday 9th  March 2020 4.15pm to 5.45pm (Cafe Zone)
• Introducing binary drumming as a tool for learning number relationships, astronomy and chemistry ! ? !
• STEM is Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths. To this we add the art and get STEAM'd uP​​

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Event 3 - What’s the Big Idea? - Introducing the Big Ideas of Mathematics (with spoken word, music and movement)

• Wednesday 11th March 2020 5pm to 6.30pm (Cafe Zone)
• Through song and dance + special guests. Plus an Introduction the Blacks in Mathematics & Science by Bis Publications

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Event 4 - Learning STEM with Dance – Masterclass led by Astehmari Batekun

• Wednesday 11th March 2020 7pm to 9pm (Dance Studio)
•  the physics of warrior dance and the transformation of Winchi (the African Crowned Crane).

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THIS EVENT HAS BEEN POSTPONED DUE TO AN INCIDENT OUTSIDE OF OUR ORGANISATIONAL CONTROL.
Event 5 - High Altitude Balloon (HAB) LAUNCH EVENT ! - Journey with us to the stratosphere (outerspace!)

• Thursday 12th March 2020 6am to 9am (Chestnuts Park)
• ​HAB Project engagement – we’re sending a weather balloon to the edge of space to take pictures (and learn all the project logistics for the bigger Triple Darkness Space Probe cubesat project).

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THIS EVENT HAS BEEN POSTPONED DUE TO AN INCIDENT OUTSIDE OF OUR ORGANISATIONAL CONTROL.
Event 6 - Introduction to Financial Intelligence (by Morlai Kargbo) and Cryptocurrency trading for children, youth and their families (with uLearn Naturally).

• Thursday 12th March 2020 6.30pm to 8.30pm (A2 or Cafe Zone)
• Morlai Kargbo, FCCA the Managing Director and Founder of Moracle Foundation will lead a presentation for young people around developing financial intelligence.    This presentation with Astehmari Batekun will launch a programme whereby families can invest a modest sum into a fund that is managed cooperatively by the young people, with administrative oversight by the uLearn Naturally Learners' Cooperative via Kraken (the leading cryptocurrency trading exchange.

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THIS EVENT HAS BEEN POSTPONED DUE TO AN INCIDENT OUTSIDE OF OUR ORGANISATIONAL CONTROL.
​Event 7 - A Dance Revival of the Teacher & Learner Within Innovative African Dance Masterclass Special led by Francis “Angol Movement” & Astehmari Batekun

• Friday 13th March 2020 8pm to 10.30pm (Dance Studio)
•  Francis and Astehmari - Workshop leaders

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THIS EVENT HAS BEEN POSTPONED DUE TO AN INCIDENT OUTSIDE OF OUR ORGANISATIONAL CONTROL.
​Event 8 - Learning STEM through Football (and other athletic games) - sports professionals and STEM educators in discussion.

• Saturday 14th March 2020 10am to 11.30am (Cafe Zone)
• An exploration of the maths and science behind the beautiful games we love to play.

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Event 9 - CSI Haringey – Crime Scene Investigation workshops and presentations with STEAMPower

• Saturday 14th March 2020 12pm to 4pm (Main Hall)
• Brings the crime scene investigation team to Haringey

This wonderful programme of events will take place over the period nationally known as British Science Week 2020. We’ll be at the Chestnuts Community Centre for most of the programme with some localised events with selected schools across Haringey.
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All are welcome.

uLearn Naturally Creative Learning Festival
Haringey | Spring 2020

“Growing up mathematics” My Journey with Unifiedknowledge
by Rujina Akthar

​Growing up mathematics and science was always drummed into us as important subjects to learn. I always felt intimidated by maths for some reason even though I was able to work things out and got good grades in it. So when it came time to teach my first son maths I became overwhelmed by the  many topics that this subject has.  Where do I start?  Our family has always been committed to home education for our now four children, family directed learning.

I was fortunate to meet Astehmari Batekun, Principal teacher of Unifiedknowledge, a pioneering panAfrican approach to maths and science. It was everything I was looking for and more. African drumming, dance, maths, science, art and technology all rolled into two weekly sessions.  The more I became involved in this learners’ cooperative, the more I was pushed and pulled and stretched in ways that I never even imagined that I would have to take on this journey.

You see the Unifiedknowledge approach to learning is a holistic one. I began to learn about maths and science and it's connection to ancient Africa (in the context of world heritage). It's hard to describe it but it's like a three to nine dimensional mode of learning! Nothing is left out and from one thing many things can be learnt. We have been students of this education for over 5 years and it continues to evolve and change in consistently progressive ways. But that is because it is based on concise and clear fundamentals of who and what it is. It's an educational pedagogy (a principled teaching/learning system) drawn from a panAfrican context and encompasses the UK’s national GCSE curriculum. The term panAfrican was a new idea to me at first, we’ve come to learn that here it means the patterns and ways in unity of cultural values (best practices) from across Africa, both contemporarily and from more ancient reference points.

I enjoyed it because all ages of people whether they be child or adult can engage and learn from it. It is sensory and movement based. That is why over the years I have volunteered to help out, because I feel everybody should have the chance to experience it. Its given me the confidence I needed to support my children in maths and to ensure that they see maths as a fun and enjoyable subject and not something that is difficult.

I experienced and learnt drumming in a way that not many people get to ever experience. I learned how to speak in a drum language that extends into hand signing and ancient language. I learned how to dance like the African Crowned cranes whilst doing transformational mathematics. I learned Amharic, an important East (& pan)African language. All these things both surrounding and inside maths and science.

My family came to know the principles of Unifiedknowledge through the organisation of Abundance Centres (UK) Development Trust and its core service project, the uLearn Naturally Learners’ Cooperative. Cooperative working principles touched me so much that I rose up myself to the opportunity to form a Member Trust of Abundance Centres (UK). For two years I chaired Abundance Centres (Croydon) Development Trust with a small team of Executive Members (Trustees), we focused our work on supporting local home educating families and this was my induction into community service management and though challenging it has been an invaluable experience.


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Currently I am keenly supporting with several key projects for the Cooperatives’ UK enrichment agenda that is why I want to invite you all to our uLearn Naturally Creative Learning Festival | Haringey | Spring 2020. Come and experience Science,Technology, Engineering, Art and Mathematics in the Unifiedknowledge way, a fresh engaging family friendly approach to education! Enjoy STEAM’d uP insights; STEM + the Arts advanced with nature-family-culture-learner-centered values at the heart.

• nature-centred
• family-centred
• culture-centred
• ​learner-centred

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The full programme guide with exact dates, times and venues will be updated here on our website, get more info now, get involved:

​Tel: 020 8815 3939

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As part of the festival we are also touring education centres with abunDANCE in Schools , this will start from January 2020 and tour local Haringey schools within school-time sessions / programmes and family/parent engagement evenings for better educational experience and learning attainment. Our in-schools programme builds up to the public Spring half-term holiday period. Schools can still apply for association to the Festival by contacting us by telephone 020 8815 3939

Checkout our Level Being 9 GCSE learning programme:

1) Preparations for Master (after school)

3) Mastery (full time)