STREAM Report

What an amazing year of collaborating with each other, critically thinking about real world challenges, building communication skills and being creative. Learners were given the opportunity to engage in a wide variety of practical tasks planned for each term and tailor made to the age. We live in a world where working together is paramount to what we know as success and that is why the philosophy in the STREAM (Technology) laboratory adopts a collaborative pedagogy.

Every lesson, we discover new ways of executing tasks through a process called the design thinking process. This includes, imagination, ideation, planning, evaluation, execution and finally to launch their project. The exposure that the learners are given is something that we are very proud of and we intend to remain relevant in our efforts to equip learners with the skills that they may need later in life. A few of the activities that the learners were exposed to was 3D design printing and pen, Make Makey circuit boards, Robobloq robotics, Arduino, using recyclable materials to make their projects and Scratch coding.

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3D printing of a biodome 3D printing of fractions

It is an intention of ours to create spaces and learning SCAN ME opportunities where learners want to learn and question answers rather than answer questions. This opens up a child’s mind to new 3D printing of possibilities and tangrams ultimately becomes a lifelong learner. We are excited for what lies ahead in the STREAM laboratory because this is the place, “Where innovation and design thrive.”

Mr D Oosterwyk