Copy record
The flyer for parents and carers
The copy on the sheet as it stands after the rewrite of 1 September. The sheet itself is flyer-parents.html, built by design/build-flyer.py: edit the script and re-run it, never the page. This page is what a designer, a translator or the school reads; the reasoning is in flyers.md.
One A4 sheet
794 × 1123 px
One side, printed or read on a phone.
3
sessions named
Two family sessions, one club.
Years 4, 5 and 6
who it is for
Any family at Gallions Primary School.
Free
cost to families
Said in the kicker, above the name.
The sheet, word for word
Orange banner, then the three sessions, then one line to act on, then the footer. Nothing else is on it.
Kicker, above the name
Free, for Years 4, 5 and 6
The name, as the headline
Young Makers in the Docks
The line that says what it is
A club where children make things with their hands, use real materials and tools, and build ideas of their own.
The three sessions
Come and design with us
Family session
Come along together and try three different makes. What your child enjoys helps us decide what the club will focus on.
Saturday 26 September12pm to 2pm
University of East London, Docklands
The after-school STEAM club
Children only
The school’s new STEAM club, straight after the bell. Your child designs their own project and builds it, with our help. 16 places.
Thursdays 1, 8, 15, 22 October3.25pm to 4.25pm
at school
Show and tell
Family session
Come back together. The children show you everything they made, and there is time to make some more.
Saturday 24 October12pm to 2pm
University of East London, Docklands
Call to action
Ask at the school office.
Footer
Institute of Imagination · University of East London · Gallions Primary School
The Institute of Imagination is a Registered Charity No. 1109276
What changed on 1 September
The 31 August draft was a headline, a subhead, a body paragraph, a details block and a page of small print, plus three single-session versions. Liber rejected it on 1 September as wrong and long, and the sheet was rewritten from scratch over about a dozen rounds with her. What survives of the old draft is the dates, the year groups and the price.
- The programme name is the big type. Come and make things with us is gone: undefined, inelegant, and set at a size the sentence could not carry. A family that reads only three words should read the name of the thing.
- Free went above the name, as a kicker, with the year groups, so the two facts that decide whether a parent reads on are read first.
- One line replaced the body paragraph, approved word for word: a club where children make things with their hands, use real materials and tools, and build ideas of their own. It says what the club is without naming what it makes.
- The sessions stopped being a story. The draft told the three dates as a paragraph and repeated them in a details block below. Each session is now one block: a title, who it is for, the date, the time, the place, one line. Nothing is said twice.
- The middle session is named as the school’s new STEAM club. The draft banned STEAM on reading-age grounds. It is the school’s own word for its own club, and naming it tells a parent what their child would be joining.
- The audience labels do the work the small print used to. Two are marked Family session, one Children only, so nobody has to work out who turns up where.
- The small print came off. No DBS paragraph, no line saying who runs it: the footer names the three partners and the charity registration. The photography notice came off on Liber’s instruction in the last round of the day, replaced by the charity line (
DECISIONS.md, 1 September 2026).
- Still nothing about a funder, no Imagination Boxes and no take-home of any kind. Unchanged from the draft, and unchanged for the same reasons.
Not built
- The three single-session flyers. They were the Monday board’s internal work breakdown, not what the school asked for, and they are not made. The draft copy for them is in
flyers.md only.
- The four lines that name the making. Families choose what the club makes at the co-design on 26 September, after the sheet is out, so no flyer can carry one. The four candidate lines stay in
flyers.md for a send after that Saturday.
Rules the copy follows
- Young Makers in the Docks, in full, every time. No initials, no short form.
- Times with the word to, never a dash, and with a full stop: 3.25pm to 4.25pm. Dates without the year on the sheet: Saturday 26 September.
- children, never kids or pupils. Free, never fully funded or no cost to you.
- University of East London, Docklands spelled out. UEL only in a text message.
- Institute of Imagination with no article as a label, in the footer partner list. The Institute of Imagination in the charity sentence below it.
- No Imagination Boxes and no take-home of any kind. The offer deck promises one and the budget no longer pays for it.
- No funder named. The rule was: not until an award is confirmed. It now is (
DECISIONS.md, 3 September 2026), so the sheet is silent on a funder that exists. The sheet says free, which three sources confirm, and names nobody who pays.
- No personal email addresses and no full names. The route is the school office.
- Nothing that names what the club will make. That is chosen by families on 26 September.
Short versions, for a message
For the school to forward. Both keep the programme name, because a message forwarded without it cannot be searched for.
Short, for WhatsApp or the newsletter
Young Makers in the Docks: a free club for Years 4, 5 and 6, where children make things with their hands and build ideas of their own. A family session at the University of East London on Saturday 26 September, the school’s new STEAM club on four Thursdays in October, and a family show and tell on Saturday 24 October. Ask at the school office.
One line, for a text message
Young Makers in the Docks, free for Years 4 to 6: family session Sat 26 Sep, 12pm to 2pm at UEL Docklands, STEAM club four Thursdays from 1 Oct, show and tell Sat 24 Oct. Ask at the school office.
What this record still needs
- Where the photography notice lives, now that the sheet does not carry one.
- Whether the school has confirmed 3.25pm to 4.25pm against the four booked Thursdays, and 12pm to 2pm for the two Saturdays. Both are printed; neither has been restated by the school.
- Whether both Saturdays are open to every Year 4 to 6 family or only to the 16 in the club, and what capacity either room has.
- How a family gets one of the 16 places, if it is not simply the school’s own STEAM club list.
- Whether the Royal Docks Trust now goes on the sheet, and in what wording. The award is confirmed; the sheet went out without it.
- Whether the school wants printed copies, and whether the sheet is wanted in any language other than English.
- The room and floor at the university for 24 October, and how to find it once inside.
- Travel: nearest station, and parking.