A couple of weeks ago, St Paul Lutheran School hosted a Connected Schools Gifted and Talented workshop on STEM. Miss Rebecca Mattner challenged students to protect an egg on its descent from the library balcony. In teams, students had to weigh up and design a prototype parachute that would ensure the egg didn’t break but…
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On Monday, August 21, a group of 16 keen artists met at Good Shepherd to extend their skills, wonderings and thinking in the area of visual arts. Led capably by Mrs Helane Jaensch, who was supported by her husband Chris, students were immersed in discovery and collaboration. We celebrate the connected schools learning programs which…
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Connected Schools work together to improve outcomes for all students in the Connected Schools learning community. A small group of Year 5 – Year 8 students recently met at Endeavour College to join with representatives from other Connected Schools for an enrichment program targeted to high achievers, especially in relation to Science. With a focus on physics,…
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This term, the Enrichment activity was focused around gaining a greater understanding of inclusivity in sport. Students experienced what it is like to be vision impaired by wearing blindfolds or restricted glasses that simulate vision loss. Students from Good Shepherd, St Paul, Endeavour and Golden Grove participated in modified sporting activities, such as blind cricket, blind tennis, goalball and…
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On Tuesday, 15 November, St Paul hosted a Performing Arts workshop for the Connected Schools group. Five students from St Paul participated as well as students from Good Shepherd, Golden Grove Lutheran and Endeavour College. We started off by doing activities to get to know each other, and then we split into three groups based…
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At the end of August, selected Years 5 – 7 students interested in the area of coding participated in a Coding Enrichment Day led by Rod Dissel at Good Shepherd Lutheran School. Along with students from the other Connected Schools, they were given the opportunity to experiment with different coding strategies to work collaboratively to solve…
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Twenty-three students from Year 5 – 7 from Connected Schools attended a Creative Writing Workshop at Endeavour College as part of our Enrichment Program. Students learnt interesting ways to start narratives, how to create authentic characters and techniques to improve sentence structure. In collaborative writing groups, students developed stories describing an incredible mission to explore…
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