Wow!! What an amazing start to the Term for our ICT at Holy Trinity!

A massive thank you to our P and F and School Board for providing funding to increase our robotic resources further equipping our students with 21^st century skills. We are also very excited about the fundraising efforts from the Walkathon next week.

Over the last two years, some of our students have been learning how to code, understand the language of computer programming and engineering. These skills have helped the students understand its use in communicating, collaborating and problem solving. We believe that this is an essential skill for their future.

Vex Robot Training @ Daramalan College, Dickson

Last term we were invited to join Juliette Major (St. Clare’s College ICT Coordinator and Sam’s mum) and other schools to learn how to engineer and program VEX robots. I took a small team of students which included Harry O, Sofia W, Georgia F, Emily B and Mackennah G. They learned many different engineering tips and also how to program their robot to be autonomous. It was a fantastic day.

Next Friday, I will be taking four Year 6 students to their first official VEX robotics competition at St. Clare’s College. We will be competing against high school robotic teams with our HT Robot (named Luna).  We will let you know how we go! If you are interested in learning more about the 2018 Vex Robotics comp, please click on this link https://youtu.be/IJML1_JNCLI Next year we will be entering a 3/4 Team and a 5/6 Team thanks to the school community raising money to buy more robots.

SAVE THE DATE

ICT Parent Evening

Thursday 27th September @ 7:00pm in the library.

Topics include BYOD, security, coding, robotics and how ICT is integrated into the curriculum.

All parents welcome.