Science

Communicating with the Specialist Team

We look forward to partnering with you in 2025, and welcome your input:

Hayley Oliver (Science)  Hayley.Oliver@education.vic.gov.au

RoboCup

On Saturday 13th September, we had two groups of very talented students enter the 2025 RoboCup state championships. This is a wonderful experience for students to put their Lego building, coding and creativity skills on display. Both teams did exceptionally well and improved with every round. 

Our ‘Minyans’ team even managed to come away with the impressive RMIT engineering award, for their Lego build. 

Congratulations to all involved, you should be extremely proud of yourselves. 

Thank you

A huge thank you to those of you who have managed to donate to our Science projects. I have loved opening my classroom door up in the mornings to see boxes, cotton wool, cardboard and other bits and pieces on my tables. Cereal boxes, tissue boxes, paper towel rolls, wool would all still be much appreciated.

Year One and Two learning

The Grade One and Two students have had an amazing term. They have shown me that they really understand why we need to know about weather and how the seasons change. They were all really interested to not only learn about the seasons, Summer, Autumn, Winter and Spring, but also to learn about the Wurundjeri seasons. It was interesting to see how truly connected the Wurundjeri people are to the land. 

We are finishing our learning with hibernation and migration. In the below photos you will see the students doing a quick experiment, where they had one open hand and one closed hand for two minutes. When the time was up, they placed their hands on their cheeks and noted the difference in temperature between their hands.

The students are now designing and making a model of either hibernation or migration for an animal of their choice. 

Year Three/Four learning

The Grade Three and Four students have continued to focus on how weather events can have serious impacts on our land, living and non living things. They have spent the last few weeks, designing a town or village, that they are going to create two of and then see what happens when one of them is affected by a weather event of their choice (strong wind, bushfire, flood or avalanche).

I have been extremely impressed with the quality of their drawings of their towns and can’t wait to see the 3D version. It will be sad to destroy one. 

Year Five/Six learning

The Grade Five and Six students have spent the term learning about extreme weather. We have looked at earthquakes, tsunamis, volcanoes and other types of extreme weather closer to home. 

These photos are the students creating a volcano in a bag. The bag represents the Earth’s crust and the chemical reaction inside represents the magma mixing with gas. This was a fun way to see what happens inside a volcano during an eruption. 

The students are currently working on a project where they have chosen an extreme weather event. They will research the weather event, then present their findings in a way that is interesting for them that includes some sort of model.