HAS Community Library
The library is open at lunchtime every day enabling students to read, borrow books and DVDs, draw, chat, complete a jigsaw or play board games. On Wednesdays, we have a STEM club. This term, the students are working on designs to enter the Space to Dream competition supported by the Commissioner for Children and Young People. We have begun exploring what can be created in Maker’s Empire, the 3D printing app we are using. On Fridays, in our Adventures in Art club, students are doing drawings in the style of Eloise Renouf. They will be creating a piece of art to enter the Premier’s Reading Challenge STEM Challenge.
Last year, Jimmy Morgan’s 3D model created in Maker’s Empire, came first in the state-wide Space to Dream competition. During the school holidays and for the first few weeks this term, Jimmy’s model has been on display in the library, along with the other models/designs which were in the top group in the state.
HASS – Humanities and Social Sciences F-2
Me on the Map has been the topic the F-2 students have been studying late last term and into this term. They have been discovering that Hawker is on Adnamatna Country, in South Australia, which is a state of Australia, and that Australia is one of the continents on Planet Earth. The students are writing a short report on what they have discovered, which they will post on our Blog in the next few weeks. Our next inquiry unit follows on from this. Our inquiry question will be, How have technological developments helped change the way people live, work, travel and communicate?
Digital Technologies F-2
Do you know how computers ‘talk’ to each other? They don’t see the letters and numbers we see when we type. They communicate using 2 numbers only. 0s and 1s. These numbers act like on/off switches. In our lessons this term, we have been learning about binary. I have been impressed with how quickly the students have grasped some of the concepts being taught. They have worked out their birth date in binary and have been working on decoding a secret code. And this is all using ‘old’ technology-a pencil and paper! We will continue learning about how computers work behind the scenes. This work is part of the Speak Like a Robot digital challenge supported by the Commissioner for Children and Young People.
