Book Week with Technology
Book Week is always an exciting week in our Junior School library. This year was no exception! Our girls thoroughly enjoyed dressing up as...
Rube Goldberg Machine Creators!
TechMate evenings are for girls from Grade 4 – Grade 6 to invite a significant male in their lives to join them for an...
Christmas Catapult Games
The girls enjoyed a creative and educational activity of making catapults with paddle pop sticks and designing Christmas games. They explored physics, engineering, and...
TeachTechPlay : Playback
I’m inspired and all set to hit Term 2 with more ideas after spending the last two days at the annual TeachTechPlay Conference at...
Super Splat3D for Design Skills
Wow! How excited were the girls to see the ‘magic’ of using Splat3D!
Two incredible educators and designers, Kylie & Glen Lawrence, designed Splat3D to...
Learner’s Playground
I was happy to have been asked to be part of the 'Learner's Playground' at the QSLA "Creating Future Libraries" annual network conference 2016. Last year...
STEM Ideas for Years 5 & 6
Children learn through play and discovery. Providing curious and interesting activities across the curriculum gives students opportunities to share their understanding and build on...
EL Wire shines in a Makerspace!
I just love attending workshops at HSBNE (Hackerspace Brisbane) which give me skills and ideas for our school Library Makerspace. EL wire (Electroluminescent wire) is...
Doodling Drawbots
Last term in STEMies Club we dived into designing ‘Draw Bots’. The girls drew and re-drew ideas to create an interesting ‘creature or thing’...
TechMate create with Micro:Bit
TechMate is held once a term after school for girls from grade 4 - 6 to bring along a significant male in their lives...