Specialists

STEAM learning

Foundation

Foundation students are learning about the life cycle of a silkworm. Students have identified the life cycle, explored their needs as living creatures and have designed the habitat for our new pets. Over the coming weeks, students will have an opportunity to apply their science observational skills to watch our silkworms grow, record their growth and follow their life cycle.

Mulberry leaves wanted

If anyone has access to fresh mulberry leaves, we are looking for a donation of leaves to feed our silkworms.  Please contact Mrs Dennis if you can help.

Levels 1 and 2

Students are learning about the principles of flight and applying their understanding to a range of engineering tasks including rockets, whirlybirds, paper planes, gliders and parachutes.

Levels 3 and 4

Students are also investigating flight, starting with the design and engineering of 'shoeborangs'. Throughout this unit students will explore a range of flight principles, looking at indigenous perspectives, bird flight and applying their understanding of shape and properties of materials to create their own 'shoeborang' (see design below).

Level 5

Students are investigating the principles of flight (drag, lift, weight and thrust) and creating their own flying vehicle that will travel the greatest distance. Students have started to follow the design and engineering process from idea generation to testing stage.

Level 6

Students are starting the term exploring design thinking in both 2D and 3D format. Students throughout the next 5 weeks will be designing their dream futuristic vehicle, considering sustainability within their designs and incorporating projected changes to vehicles to adapt to new ways of living. Students have researched ideas and commenced their 2D representation. Later in the term, students will design these in 3D form using Tinkercad.

STEAM Club

Students between grades 3-6 will have an opportunity to participate in Moonhack 2025 during STEAM club. The Moonhack projects provide students with experience use Scratch, Python, and micro:bit. https://moonhack.com/projects/

Science Talent Search

This year we had 10 HEPS students participate in the Science Talent Search competition. We are pleased to announce the award winners below. Students will receive their bursary prizes and certificates over the coming weeks.

3 major bursary prizes (Ava P, Yuvi and Lucy R)

2 minor bursary prizes (Meike, Ishanvi)

2 distinctions (Harry S and Tasha P)

2 merits (Jason and Zoe P)

Instrumental Music Lessons

Learning a musical instrument is a wonderful way for your child to develop all manner of skills and neural pathways in their brain. 

If your child is interested in learning a musical instrument through our private teachers, please click on this link to email the teacher directly. Information on timetabling and pricing will be available by emailing them. 

https://sites.google.com/education.vic.gov.au/hepsinstrumentaleoi/home