{"id":16520,"date":"2015-03-02T17:07:29","date_gmt":"2015-03-02T22:07:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/provolearning.com\/blog\/?p=16520"},"modified":"2015-03-02T17:07:43","modified_gmt":"2015-03-02T22:07:43","slug":"check-out-our-creative-chess-club-mate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/provolearning.com\/blog\/school-news\/check-out-our-creative-chess-club-mate\/","title":{"rendered":"Check out our Creative Chess Club, Mate!"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"chess-club-mar-2015Chess club has been a growing success.\u00a0 With quite a few beginner players, it’s great to see how they are now starting their games with clear opening moves, more carefully thought-out game play and a clearer idea on how to position their pieces to check mate their opponent.<\/p>\n

Alongside learning and developing their knowledge and strategies, they have also been working in partners to create their very own chess sets – using only paper, glue and tape!<\/p>\n

A big thank you goes out to our volunteer chess coach, Mr Mark Pankhurst, and Miss Mani for their teaching skills and guidance.<\/p>\n

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Did you know that playing chess encourages children to understand how to break down problems into parts – how to be critical problem solvers?\u00a0 Learning the game also helps develop children’s self-esteem and self-worth, and they learn to be become better sports too. They learn to think before they move – and that’s a lesson in life well worth encouraging.\u00a0 And to cap it all –\u00a0 it’s fun too!<\/p>\n

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Chess club has been a growing success.\u00a0 With quite a few beginner players, it’s great to see how they are now starting their games with clear opening moves, more carefully thought-out game play and a clearer idea on how to position their pieces to check mate their opponent. Alongside learning and developing their knowledge and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[31,1],"tags":[],"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/provolearning.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16520"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/provolearning.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/provolearning.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/provolearning.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/provolearning.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16520"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/provolearning.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16520\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16530,"href":"http:\/\/provolearning.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16520\/revisions\/16530"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/provolearning.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/provolearning.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/provolearning.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}