The Academy was established in January 2018 to provide a range of exciting and stimulating educational experiences, for children of all ages.
The Academy was established in January 2018 to provide a range of exciting and stimulating educational experiences, for children of all ages.
Using a range of STEAM projects chosen for our Academy students, the children will:
Research, design, learn about the properties of materials and how to test them, construct, adapt and evaluate to solve real life problems. Having learnt a range of techniques, the children will identify personal topics of interest for their own research and passion projects.
Some projects may be completed in one session – whilst others may take two or three sessions
Research, design, make and test sleeping masks
Design and create a series of memes for NZ animals
Use Food Tech skills to make a chocolate fondue
Investigate torches, lasers and mirrors and their effect on ‘stain-glass’ windows
Design, create and make shoes for animals
Recycle materials to make a gravity weight tracker
Study predators and prey and design a board game about the Life Cycle
Make a home for a hermit crab/tortoise/turtle with a broken shell
Research body temperature and create a safe, working thermometer
Make your own fidget spinner from recycled materials
Make a pirate ship which sails and test it in the lake
Recycle paper to create paper-pulp and create a treasure map
2 hours per week for 8 weeks in Term 1
8 -13 year olds
Tuesdays 1 - 3pm