Stem Club – Year 3 and 4

Each Wednesday at Lunch 2, Miss Carter holds a STEM Club for students in the Hall. Last term, Year 4 students were invited to join the club. Miss Carter then picked 20 names out of a hat and those students were able to participate in these fun activities at Lunch 2. This term, Year 3 students were invited to join STEM Club and 15 names were chosen out of a hat. Students then work in teams to solve problems and complete challenges with each other.

STEM is an approach to learning and development that integrates the area of science, technology, engineering and mathematics. Through STEM, students develop key skills including: problem solving, creativity, critical analysis, teamwork, independent thinking, initiative, communication and digital literacy.

Some of the challenges the children have been completing include creating boats that can float, programming B-Bots to move around obstacles, designing and making paper planes and testing how far they can fly, creating a tower out of marshmallows. The students then have an opportunity to evaluate the design of their product and share the results.

WHY DO YOU LIKE STEM CLUB?

I get to create projects and learn to work with other people. Piper H

We get to build things and I get to learn new things about engineering, technology and science. Lucas B

I like getting creative and building and discovering new things. Jailan V

I like creating things through trial and error and that there is no right or wrong way to do something. Adelle B

I like the way you have to use your creative mind to build things out of materials like paper and then testing to see if they work. Austin S

I like to spend the time creating new things with my friends. Patrick F

I like the way we use recyclable resources to create new things so that we don’t contribute to landfill.  Maria-Helen T

I love that I get to create things with other people. Angelina T

LILLIAN DEL GIUDICE

ASSISTANT PRINCIPAL