HAS Community Library
Premiers Reading Challenge STEM Design Challenge
During their library lessons this term, the students in Foundation to Year 6 will be taking part in the STEM Reading and Design Challenge. We have done this over the past few years and a couple of our students have won awards.
To enter the competition, we will be reading a book taken from the Premier’s Reading Challenge booklist that has a STEM theme. The F-2 students will be drawing a picture in response to this book. The students in Years 3-5, will be planning an invention inspired by the book we’ve read, while the Year 6 students will be designing a STEM poster, related to the book we’ve read, to inspire interest in science-related fields.
All students will receive a certificate of participation.
Space to Dream
Recently, students were offered a mission: to Design a toy or gadget for a child your age who is moving to Mars. Some students have accepted this mission and will be coming to library one lunchtime a week to create their designs using the 3D printing app, Maker’s Empire.
The students will be using design thinking, a 5-step approach to problem solving that will encourage them to understand people’s needs and come up with effective solutions to meet those needs. Design thinking is the thinking used by engineers and designers all over the world.
Once the students have completed their models, they will be printed here at school and put on display in the library. Some of the designs will be chosen to be sent to Adelaide to be judged along with designs from students across the state as well as some from interstate.
National Simultaneous Storytime
It was finally time for the event of the year, Spike couldn’t believe it—THE GREAT RACE was here! The other sloths said it couldn’t be done, but Spike didn’t care, she was ready to run!
From award-winning creators Rebecca Young and Heath McKenzie, comes this inspiring story to celebrate all winners ... especially those who don’t come first.
This is the official story chosen for ALIA National Simultaneous Storytime 2023, which will be celebrated all across Australia and New Zealand!
- This event will take place in our library at 11am on Wednesday 24 May, 2023.
Storytime for pre-school children & their parents/carers
is held in the Library every Thursday during Term time @ 9:00 a.m.
Book Week 2023
August 19-25 (Week 5, Term 3)
Theme: Read, Grow, Inspire
Digital Technologies: Foundation to Year 6
I believe it is important that our students are involved in activities that students from around the state are also involved in, such as the Premier’s Reading Challenge. Another challenge that is available for our students is the Commissioner’s Digital Challenge. As mentioned earlier, some of our students are entering the Space to Dream challenge. As part of their Digital Technology lessons over the course of this term and into next term, the F-6 students will be involved in activities that follow the Australian Curriculum but will also allow them to participate in Learn to Speak Robot (Digital Thinking) and Zoom Out (Systems Thinking).
Currently, we are looking at how systems, which is anything made from small parts that work together to form something else and in so doing, can carry out functions that the individual part can’t. Next, we are going to be focussing on data (numbers, texts, images) and information (the processing of data to be useful and meaningful).
Student Representative Council (S.R.C)
The SRC helped organise and run the Eggstraordinary Activity, which was held on the last day of Term 1. They also presented the end of term assembly, which they did extremely well.
We continue to meet fortnightly to discuss issues raised by the classes, plan future events, research items to purchase and be a voice for all students in the school
Ailsa Green and Stef Teague
