Using tools and technologies 3. Being Ambassadors 4. Impacting on your community 5. Involving helpers and volunteers 6. Each term our school adopts a whole school theme around which teachers can link their work in all subject areas if they wish.
Teachers are free to have other themes during the term as well.
The Internet project was designed to widen the scope of the theme for all the children in our school as well as contributing to the work of teachers in other schools. Many aspects of technology were used in conjunction with this project and they are listed under question 2. Science classes conducted experiments on properties of water. Children designed and built boats of various sorts that had been mentioned in river and lake reports and tested them in paddling pools of water. Children tested various loads on their cargo boats weighing and comparing the loads they could carry.