Slowing down, having a conversation and sharpening your VR skills in one package!

 

What fun it is to sit down with a jigsaw. You become completely immersed within minutes. 

I was given this Dickens jigsaw for Christmas and won't pretend to have recognised all the characters but I definitely sharpened my spatial skills. 

The ISEB CPT and CAT4 tests rely on quick spatial and non-verbal reasoning. What better than having to grap a jigsaw piece, identifying where it fits into a pattern and experimenting with orientation for honing these tasks?  

As a family: 

Choose an accessible jigsaw for the group. Have a look below before settling on an image. 

Try a map, a historial event, a famous piece of artwork or learn about an author.  

Find a space which won't need to be swept away. Or, if you don't have anywhere, use a big tray. I use a Mahjong table! 

Choose your strategy: edges first? Centre. Your call. 

As you work, ponder outloud about the image you are building. For this one, I thought about: how grim the air of Victorian London must have been (!); how the Thames was the lifeblood of the City;  how windowless factories were; how socially mixed London was with rich and poor living hugger-mugger. 

Depending on your paradigm, you will find ideas to float out. You aren't making this into an interview skills class but you are building cultural capital.  

 The ISEB CPT and Interview skills in one jigsaw!