Session One: getting to know one another, yourself, and the aims of the group.

1. Icebreaker. Give each girl a letter at random around the room. The task is to find someone in the room that has something in common with you, starting with that letter, and then hold hands with them. Keep going until the whole club is "connected". Might be an idea to move the chairs first!
2. Name badges.
3. What are our group values? Note the blog address blog and discuss SPRQ. Look at the picture: colour, variety, connections. Caveat: no elitism.
4. Banana challenge: how could you SPRQ with a banana? (small groups)
5. What is intelligence? How many ways are there to be clever? (whole group brainstorm)
6. Howard Gardner and Multiple Intelligences (teacher input, see PowerPoint slides above this post).
7. Online diagnostic and print-out. Partner discussion: are you surprised? How could this knowledge affect the way you approach lessons (and life)? File in document wallets.
8. Plenary: what did you learn today (graffiti wall)?