Teaching & Learning  

We are very excited to celebrate Education Week with our community next week.  

Come on in and celebrate learning with your child.   This year the theme of Education Week is Spotlight on STEM.  Encouraging science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) skills.  By showing your child that you have a positive attitude to STEM and you see the great possibilities it presents, you can have an impact on how your child feels.

Mr Lytton runs an amazing, stimulating STEM classroom that encourages creative and critical thinking.  Student curiosities are welcomed and ideas challenged.  He will open his classroom doors on the Monday (13th of May) and Thursday (16th of May) and invite you to come and see student learning in action.

The way that STEM subjects are taught may have changed over the years, but families are still able to support children of all ages engage in STEM related experiences.

Ways you can help your child engage with STEM:

Investigate and ask questions about the real world

You can do this by asking open-ended questions, such as:

• Can you describe...?
• I wonder what would happen if...?
• How would you answer that question...?
• What if...?

Encourage and support activities that are STEM-related

For younger children, this could include:

• playing games to identify different shapes, numbers and patterns
• singing songs and nursery rhymes about numbers and playing with building blocks.

For older children, this could include:

• using a digital device to make a movie with special effects
• learning cooking skills
• encouraging the use of apps and computer games that are STEM-related.

STEM websites and places to visit

• Museums Victoria(opens in a new window) cares for the state's scientific and cultural collections. Museums Victoria includes Melbourne Museum and Scienceworks. These museums provide stimulating exhibits and activities to help families maximise their STEM experience.
• Zoos Victoria(opens in a new window) provides families with the opportunity to discover a range of wildlife and learn about conservation.
• Cosmos(opens in a new window) is a science magazine published in Australia. Its accompanying website has the latest science news, discoveries, developments and events.

All other classroom teachers will have their doors open on the Friday morning (17th of May) where you can come in and participate in a maths lesson.   Please see attachment of opening times.

We look forward to celebrating a positive and inclusive Education Week.