Junior School Learning

Kirribilli Walkabout

Year 1 students are learning about places and how to care for them. The students embarked on a Kirribilli Walkabout to explore our local area and investigate the natural, managed and constructed features of these places.

Our intrepid explorers identified and photographed the features of the local area using their iPads. Back at school they wrote recounts of their excursion, focusing on using time connectives and prepositional phrases.

They have also started to collaborate in groups and think creatively to design their own maps of the local area for the Blue-bot robots to travel aroundonce they have learnt to code them! This transdisciplinary project combines Mathematics, Geography, History, Art, Literacy and Technology.

Years 5 and 6 students travelled with St Aloysius’ College students to participate in the STEM Tech Challenge Day at Redlands Junior School. The students worked collaboratively in teams as they applied their creative and critical thinking skills to problem solve and design solutions using a variety of digital equipment. They had a great day and it was wonderful to see them challenge themselves.

LUCIA VU Year 5

Design Thinking Tech Girls

Thank you to STEM professional Daniella di Santo and Year 6 parent Emma McCormack for mentoring at our Tech Girls Design Thinking Workshop, where our Tech Girls teams identified which UN sustainable goal they would target with their app, and presented their problem statements.