Luminaries

6th August, 2019 During week two of this term, the Cre8 Lab students were fully engaged in creating their Luminaries.  The original idea was to use wax paper to iron leaves and dried flowers into two sheets and then create a box, using hot glue and wooden skewers.  Unfortunately we could not find wax paper…

Macramé Wall Hanging Workshop

23rd July, 2019 A big welcome back to all the Cre8 Lab students for Term 3. We started the term running on Wednesday with the Macramé Wall Hanging workshop. Most of the students remembered that they had signed up to attend even though we had a two week break. So it was a full house…

3Doodler Activity

28th June, 2019 During the last week of school, students from Year 9 History were lucky enough to utilise our Library 3D printer and also the new 3Doodler pens during class. Because their unit was Indian history, the students were asked to find an artefact or something relating to the subject in Thingiverse. Then they…

The Makerspace Reading Chairs

11th June, 2019 The McAuley library has had a Positivitree since June last year. The tree is situated in the bean bag area of McAuley library and it has been a long journey to acquire just the right chair or chairs to sit under the tree. After some searching we were able to purchase two…

McAuley Makerspace Term 2, 2019

11th June, 2019 Makerspace Term 2 has been super popular! We stared the term with mask painting inspired by the 2019 Whole School Project – Building Bingavia. We looked at traditional masks and art from Papua New Guinea and the students used paints and paper plates to create the masks. Week 2 was super busy…