Science & Digi Tech

Science & Digi Tech Update

With the development and construction of the new $14.9 million STEAM Centre to begin in 2022, Thornbury High School has further expanded our STEAM program by bringing the Science and Digital Technologies departments together as one. The integration of both disciplines will ensure that we continue to prepare our students for the future.  The curriculum in Year 7 and 8 is being enhanced with the inclusion of areas of the digital technology curriculum and the elective programs in Years 9 and 10 have strategically been designed to ensure that those students in Digital Technologies are immersing themselves in the digital world beyond information processing (ICT). 

Along with our Digi Tech integration, the labs have been bustling with students eager to learn and conduct experiments.  Year 7 students have been achieving their bunsen burner licences and learning all about scientific apparatus. Year 8 students investigating chemistry through dry ice, carbon dioxide and magnesium oxide experiments. Year 9 students have been studying the nervous system, while Year 10 students have been observing cells up close using microscopes. VCE students have also been working on experiments for their upcoming SACs, including making and burning biodiesel in Chemistry and looking at enzyme reactions and photosynthesis in Biology.