Hi everyone 🙂 The students are loving working with Spheros, Dashes and robotic mice and are becoming very creative problem solvers! 🙂 Check out some of the coding and robotics happening in the school at the moment. We are pleased[…]
Stop, collaborate and listen :-)
Hi everyone 🙂 Year 3 – Dash robots We were proud to see students applying their collaboration and problem solving skills when working with the Dash robots. They showed persistence when challenged by coding errors and used their debugging knowledge[…]
Dashin’ through the… school
Welcome back! 🙂 Year 3 The students could not contain their excitement when Dash made a huge entrance rolling across the table and greeting them with a cheerful, “Hi! I’m Dash!” Students applied their block coding skills to program[…]
Loops, loops, loops, loops, loops…
Did you hear about the programmer who got stuck in the shower because the instructions on the shampoo bottle said, “Lather, Rinse, Repeat”? 🙂 🙂 🙂 Our Year 5 and 6 students have embarked on a coding journey over[…]
“Truly wonderful, the mind of a child is.” – Yoda
Welcome to Week 4. How about a little joke? 🙂 Q: Which program do Jedi use to open PDF files? A: Adobe Wan Kenobi (Funny, we know 🙂 ) The Year 2 classes began their coding journey by[…]
Rollin’ in the deep…
Welcome to Week 3 🙂 Year 2 students completed their graph paper programming task by creating algorithms to colour in certain squares in a grid. They then presented their code in Pic Collage. Amazing teamwork was displayed. The Year[…]
May the fourth be with you :-)
Hi everyone 🙂 This term we welcome the Year 2 classes to the fold for the very first time. St Columba’s now has 60 new expert photographers who collaborated well with their partners to take some great photos. They[…]
Global Day of Design #GDD17
Hi everyone 🙂 Today is Global Day of Design and St Columba’s students joined more than 60,000 other students worldwide in this 24-hour design event aimed at inspiring students to make, create and build. The Year 1 students demonstrated[…]
Lest we forget…
As part of the St Columba’s Anzac Day Ceremony, families were invited to provide a photograph of a relative who represented Australia or New Zealand in war service. Our ceremony, held this morning, was greatly enhanced by these personal contributions, and[…]
The Drop…
Today saw the Year 3 Project Parachute reach new heights with the students IMPROVING and SHARING their parachutes. Mr Martin, Mrs Dwyer and Ms Klatt joined the students in celebrating their highs and lows. Please see below the video from[…]