Specialists

STEAM - Mr. Young and Jess Gazzo

Time to re-name Room 7!

You may remember last year that the STEAM team ran a competition to rename Room 7. All students were invited to submit their ideas and Room 7 was renamed The IMAGINATION STATION and the lucky winner received a free lunch from the Snack Shack. Well it's on again. Entries must be submitted by Friday March 1 [Friday week]. Just place your fabulous ideas in the black Competition Box located outside the soon to be renamed Room 7. Good luck to all, use those amazing imaginations and you too can be a winner!

What's that clinking sound in STEAM?

The year has started with Grades 1-6 exploring the concept of STEAM teaching and learning, using LEGO. This humble plastic brick is a wonderful resource for learning about STEAM. Science, Technology, Engineering, Art and Mathematics can be all explored with just a handful of LEGO bricks. The science is in the forces that are used to manipulate the bricks. Every construction idea uses a push and pull force and they stay together with the friction force created through wedging the bricks together. The technology is the bricks themselves. They are not grown on trees, they are designed and manufactured by people for people. The engineering is in the construction of complex shapes using bricks that are essentially either square or rectangular. This encourages conceptual thinking and problem solving. The art occurs through the use of colours and the construction methods used to represent complex shapes and ideas. The mathematics is designed in every brick. The multiplication table of two is in the studs on the top of each brick...1,2,4,6,8,10 etc, the weight of a standard brick is 2.5 grams, the height assembled equals one centimeter per brick, 400 standard bricks weighs one kilogram and a standard base board is a 32 stud squared square.

MUSIC - Traci Cenedese

Last Friday we had the most fun EVER in our own school having a SWIFTY lunchtime

Lots of students didn’t get seats (nor me!)

At one stage it seemed 400 students were singing and dancing to all the Tay-Tay songs at lunchtime. 

It was super fun and thanks to Ali Powell, Stephen Young  and Tino for helping me on the day!

LOTE - Jeffic Ye

To celebrate Chinese New Year, 5A students performed a Lion Dance at assembly last week. Traditionally the Lion Dance is performed during 15 days of Chinese New Year celebration to legendarily bring good fortune to where it had been performed.

We wish a prosperous new year to the community who celebrate Lunar New Year!

This Year we will incorporate Visible Wellbeing in our LOTE program. Students are encouraged to use colour coded Mandarin sentence prompts to talk about what they can see, hear and feel in circle time in LOTE class. We hope to develop a routine with students to speak the language and use them to express genuine circumstances.