Saturday 19 October 2024 - 1 Day course - 2pm - 6:30pm

SIX BRICKS is a pedagogical approach developed by Care for Education in partnership with the LEGO® Foundation.

Six Bricks activities are short, simple exercises, many of which only take a couple of minutes to do with children. They are not a curriculum but they are designed to support all areas of development in the curriculum. They help to wake up a child’s brain and get them moving, thinking and remembering through playful learning.

Every child has a set of six bricks, one of each colour (Red, Yellow, Orange, Green, Light blue and dark blue). The Teacher, Special Needs Assistant, Classroom Assistant, Occupational Therapist, Speech and Language Therapist, Parent etc. can then quickly and easily facilitate an activity at any time. Repetition brings about better organization of the brain and the secret of the success of these activities lies in their regular repetition which enables children to consolidate new knowledge.

Six Bricks activities are in development all the time and there are now hundreds of activities supporting different areas of development/skills e.g. bilateral integration, crossing the mid-line, working memory, inhibitory control, depth perception, numeracy, literacy etc.

The activities are very versatile and can be adapted and scaled up or down depending on the age and stage of the children or groups you are working with.

Activities are also being successfully used with children with special educational needs, and adults in care e.g. experiencing Dementia/Alzheimer’s

The SIX BRICKS levels 1 and 2 course covers:

• The background and origins of SIX BRICKS
• How 6B supports development and executive functioning skills
• Playful learning activities and practice
• Six Bricks tools and resources
• Adapting activities to support different age groups, needs, individual and group practice
• Ongoing professional development

The hands-on activities and practice during the course cover a wide range of developmental areas e.g.

• Physical gross motor and fine motor skills, hand-eye coordination, body awareness, balance, dominance, bilateral integration, crossing the mid-line, sound and movement
• Visual field, visual perception, visual discrimination, peripheral vision, eye teaming, left to right eye movements, line tracking
• Cognitive, concentration & focus, working memory, auditory memory, visual discrimination & memory, sequential memory, cognitive flexibility, planning, problem solving; creativity & imagination; recognising forms, shapes, symbols, sound and movement patterns, planning and predicting
• Mathematics, awareness of number and colour, counting, size, length, colour, comparing, ordering, graphing, matching, sequencing, balance and counter balance, patterning
• Speech & Language, listening to & carrying out instructions, conceptual vocabulary; prepositions; spatial vocabulary
• Socio-Emotional, playfulness, expressing emotions, growing confidence collaborating, inhibitory control, turn taking

Trainer:

Your international trainer for SIX BRICKS is Miriam O Donoghue, a highly qualified and experienced teacher, trainer, educator and consultant who has worked for more than 40 years in education. Miriam is one of only a small number of LEAD SIX BRICKS trainers in the world who is endorsed/recognised by Care for Education.

This means that as well as being a very experienced SIX BRICKS Trainer, Miriam can deliver training to higher certification levels.

Miriams Six Bricks Training Record:

• over 5,000+ participants have signed up for Miriams Six Bricks Taster Workshops
• over 2,000+ participants have completed Miriams Six Bricks Certificate Levels 1-2
• over 500+ participants have completed Miriams Six Bricks Certificate Levels 3-4

Course Price:

Course price is €165. This price covers training and extensive materials, resources and training kit:

• Both Level 1 and 2 Six Bricks Certificate Programme (4 hours - 2 x 2-hour live sessions online) with Lead trainer Miriam O Donoghue
• Level 1 and 2 Course Training eManuals
• 8 x Six Bricks Activity eBooks (Covering different areas of development)
• Extensive electronic resources, activity mats, activity cards etc. with ongoing lifetime access to Miriams SIX BRICKS portal of resources after the course. This portal is only for participants who complete training with Miriam and includes over 1000+ resources.
• The SIX BRICKS Level 1-2 Training Kit posted worldwide. The Level 1 & 2 training kit includes: 1 x set of SIX BRICKS, a large foam dice, a large laminated two-sided Activity Mat - the Play and Learn Mat and the B Line Mat, a peg, 4 lengths of ribbon and a spiral bound and laminated hard copy 190-page Six Bricks MAT activities book.
• A level 1 and 2 Certificate endorsed by Care for Education

If you live outside of Europe, please ensure that there is enough lead in time to get the kit to you before the course starts.

Refunds:

No refunds are available for cancelled places or NO SHOWS. Places can be transferred for the same course date to another particiant if notified in advance.

Certification:

To be eligible for the internationally recognised SIX Bricks Certification particiants must:

• attend the full live online training course (a recording is not available)
• participate in the activities - cameras must be working and on at all times
• complete a homework activity

SIX BRICKS Information pack:

If you would like to receive a Six Bricks Information pack about online certificate courses please download the pack here

https://www.educationservices.info/six-bricks-information-pack