What’s on in Makerspace this term?
Makerspace is open before school and at lunchtimes. We can’t wait to see you there! Check out this video to see the exciting workshops we have planned for you in Term 3:
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Term 2, 2025
Makerspace is a fun collaborative space. A place to make new friends, try new equipment, a place be creative and curious. Students can come to Makerspace before school and at lunchtime. Each week we have an activity where you can learn, or do your own creating and making.
Week 1 – ANZAC Poppies
We made felt poppy pins to wear for ANZAC day.
In Australia and other countries of the Commonwealth, red poppies are symbol of remembrance. The flower reminds us of those who lost their lives or suffered in wars, conflicts and peacekeeping operations. It’s a tradition that began in the early 1900s, after World War I.
During World War I, red poppies were among the first plants to bloom across the wasted battlefields of northern France and Belgium.
The flower gave Canadian medic, Lieutenant-Colonel John McCrae, the inspiration for his poem, In Flanders Fields. McCrae wrote the poem while serving outside Ypres, Belgium, in 1915. McCrae’s poem recalls the red poppies on the graves of soldiers who died on the Western Front.
Week 2 – Origami Lotus
Creativity is blooming and our Makerspace students have been hands-on learning how to make beautiful origami lotus flowers! 🌸 This mindful activity encourages focus, patience, and fine motor skills—while also offering a calming break from the busy school day. It’s a great reminder that learning can be both fun and meditative, helping students build confidence, creativity, and resilience one fold at a time. 💫Students are also welcome to use equipment and resources in the Makerspace to work on their own projects – making a birthday card, drawing or tinkering.
Week 3 – Mother’s Day pop up cards
We made Mother’s Day cards that pop-open into a beautiful bouquet. This activity develops students’ scissor skills strengthening finger and hand muscles, building dexterity and fine motor skills, improving hand-eye coordination and developing focus and attention to detail. The cards were challenging and intricate, and the students rallied with perseverance and focus to achieve a great result.
Week 4 – Marble Run
Using cardboard, tape and tubes our student have been engineering Marble runs in Makerspace. With twists, turns, plenty of tape and team work our students have learned to protype, test, fail and improve to build some complex tracks developing our design thinking and collaboration skills.
Week 5 – RSPCA pet toys
This week we were upcycling household materials to make cat and dog toys for animals awaiting adoption at the RSPCA. Students and staff donated old jeans which were cut into strips and ‘box knotted’ together into strong chew toys for dogs. Using cardboard rolls the students made cute cat treat dispenser toys. We hope they make some ‘soon to be adopted’ cats and dogs very happy.
Week 7 – Scribble Bots
Makerspace students constructed robots using screwdrivers, wire strippers, a mini electric motor and felt pens. As the motor rotates, it vibrates, causing the pens attached to the motor to jiggle and circle across paper making patterns and scribbles. The students adjusted the legs and pen length on their robots to change direction and change the patterns. Lots of fun and lots of interesting patterns.
Week 8 – Dreamcatchers
Refining their macrame skills, student have moved on to a more challenging project. Combining, macrame, weaving and braiding – the students have created beautiful artistic dreamcatches.
A dreamcatcher is a special handmade object from some Native American and First Nations cultures. It is usually a willow hoop with a net or web woven inside. People often decorate it with feathers or beads.
Traditionally, dreamcatchers are hung above a baby’s cradle or bed. They are meant to offer protection. The idea comes from the Anishinaabe people. They called it “the spider web charm” or “dream snare.” It was a hoop with woven string, like a spider’s web, to protect babies.
Dreamcatchers became more widely known in the 1960s and 1970s. This was during a time when many Native American groups wanted to show their shared culture. (Source: Kiddle encyclopedia 8 June 2025 Dreamcatcher Facts for Kids)
Week 9 – Games and Puzzles
The students love doing puzzles and learning new games. We have an extensive collection of puzzles, board games, dice games and cards in the library for students to borrow and play. The students really enjoyed learning how to play Qwirkle, Genius Square and Mancala.
3D Printer
Exciting news! We now have a 3D printer in Makerspace. So many possibilities for creativity, tinkering, learning and growth.
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What’s on in Makerspace this term?
Makerspace is open before school and at lunchtimes. We can’t wait to see you there! Check out this video to see the exciting workshops we have planned for you in Term 2:
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Term 1, 2025
Makerspace is a fun collaborative space. A place to make new friends, try new equipment, a place be creative and curious. Students can come to Makerspace before school and at lunchtime. Each week we have an activity where you can learn, or do your own creating and making.
Weeks 1 – Giant Colouring and Games
Makerspace has burst into life in 2025 with loads of creative activities for students.
In our first week back students have been working on collaborative colouring, games and puzzles, activities to help them get to know our new students and reconnect with old friends.
Week 2 – Giant Windballs
We used cardboard boxes from our uniform shop and book deliveries, decorate square panels and made Giant Windballs. We used the MakeDo Screw and screwdrivers to join the squares in to pentagons and traingles to make huge spheres to decorate the Library. Makerspace is a great place to be creative and make new friends. Some of our new Year 5 students have collaborated with Year 6 students to make these spectacular Dragon puppets.
Week 3 – Waterfall Heart Cards
Galentines Day is always so much fun at AHS. We made Heart Waterfall cards in Makerspace to celebrate. This activity develops students’ scissor skills strengthening finger and hand muscles, building dexterity and fine motor skills, improving hand-eye coordination and developing focus and attention to detail. Making bright and beautiful interactive cards has been a very popular activity.
You can find the template @teachstarter
Week 4 – Gods Eyes
Makerspace students discovered the meditative and rewarding process of God’s Eye weaving! Originating from the Huichol people of Mexico, this beautiful craft involves weaving colourful wool around a crossed frame. We created unique and eye-catching pieces, while developing fine motor skills, hand-eye coordination, and patience. We also connected with a rich cultural tradition and learn about the symbolism behind these intricate designs.
Week 5 & 6 – Cardboard Critter Competition
We got creative with cardboard in Makerspace using our MakeDo screws and tools to make cardboard critters.
The challenge was:
- Construct a creature using carboard and just the reusable blue screws NO tape or glue!
- All materials must be recyclable.
- You can use pens and other recycle able materials to decorate your critter.
- You can use rubber bands to enhance the movement of your critter.
What a marvellous menagerie we’ve made. Our students are so creative!
Week 7 – Repeating Patterns
Makerspace students have been creating repeating patterns by drawing designs then folding the paper to ensure the design connects at the top and bottom of the page and either side. We then scanned the page into the photocopier in the library to create a jpeg. The free scan is them emailed to the student and they can create copy the design multiple times to create printable wrapping paper or wallpaper for their school device or mobile phone background.
Our creative and caring kids have also been making fidget bead geckos from string and beads. They independently followed instructions they researched and then taught the other Makerspace students ‘how to’! Wonderful collaboration and creativity.
Week 8 – Closing the Gap
Supporting our Human Rights Mercy Action students, the Library hosted a display of First Nations authors and a Tjanpi weaving activity on National Close the Gap Day, on 20 March. The display and weaving were part of a broader campaign by our Human Rights group students, shining a light on National Close the Gap Day this year sending a message to our community that we value health quality as a fundamental right for all.
Our Year 10 Religion classes have been studying First Nations Spirituality this term. As part of this curriculum, library lessons for Year 10 have focused on highlighting our First Nations research collection and providing immersive experiences for our students with Yarning Circles and weaving workshops. We followed a technique learnt from the Tjanpi Desert Weavers. The group is part of the Ngaanyatjarra Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara (NPY) Women’s Council, and works with First Nations women in the remote Central and Western deserts to earn an income from contemporary fibre art.
Week 9 – Easter Egg Sprouts
Easter greens are sprouting this week in Makerspace. The tuckshop very kindly gave us all the egg shells left over from their delicious baking and we are decorating the egg shells and using them to grow spouts. Next week we will make baskets out of paper cups and take our egg sprouts home for Easter.
eek 10 – Easter Baskets
Easter Sprouts are growing in Makerspace and we have made a little Easter basket and butterflies for our egg sprouts, the basket is woven from a paper cup.
3D Printer
Exciting news! We now have a 3D printer in Makerspace. So many possibilities for creativity, tinkering, learning and growth.
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Term 4, 2024
Makerspace is a fun collaborative space. A place to make new friends, try new equipment, a place be creative and curious. Students can come to Makerspace before school and at lunchtime. Each week we have an activity where you can learn, or do your own creating and making.
Weeks 1 & 2 – Macrame Key Chain
Makerspace started term 4 strong with macrame! Using colourful threads and beads, students experimented with methods, colours and styles to craft beautifully knotted accessories. The makerspace was filled with collaboration, problem-solving, and creativity!
Week 3 – Animate Your Sketches
During week 3 in Makerspace, students harnessed both their creative and technical skills to create some cute animations. They first created and drew their original character designs, then photographed and uploaded them to an animation website, and with a few clicks, were able to see their creations dance around the screen!
Week 4 – Forest Mushrooms
As part of our ecojustice week, students in the Makerspace created miniature forest scenes using all recycled materials.
We used old lids for the bases, rolled cardboard for the stems, and empty egg cartons for the mushroom caps. The students all added their own unique flourishes to their creations, using many different colours and patterns, and even some actual twigs and leaves from the garden!
Week 5 – Spooky Stories, Halloween Bags, and Pom Pom Monsters
Spoooooky season! To celebrate Halloween, students in the Makerspace made spooky crafts including spiders, ghosts, and bags for trick-or-treating.
Makerspace always has a puzzle going, so students can take a much needed break. This puzzle was out of this world! Staff and students got a view of our world from above as they pieced together this puzzle.
Week 6 & 7 – Tic Tac Toe Game
Weeks 6 and 7 saw tic tac toe take over the Makerspace! Students made their very own portable tic tac toe games using their painting, drawing and sewing skills. These were perfect for easy Christmas gifts!
Week 8 & 9 – Christmas Cards and Craft
As the end of the year approached, students made Christmas cards and crafts for themselves and their loved ones. They carefully used stencils and push pins to transfer their desired design to a piece of card, then used colourful yarn and a blunt needle to bring the image to life! Other students created cute snowmen ornaments out of beads and twine.
Christmas Village
To decorate the library with some Christmas cheer, students constructed a beautiful Christmas village out of paper and card.
Lego
Our Lego tables are always really popular in the library, and this year we have seen some wonderful creations!
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Term 3, 2024
Makerspace is a fun collaborative space. A place to make new friends, try new equipment, a place be creative and curious. Students can come to Makerspace before school and at lunchtime. Each week we have an activity where you can learn, or do your own creating and making.
Weeks 1 & 2 – NAIDOC week Desert Weaving
To celebrate NAIDOC week we learnt to weave following a technique learnt from the Tjanpi Desert Weavers. The group is part of the Ngaanyatjarra Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara (NPY) Women’s Council, and works with First Nations women in the remote Central and Western deserts to earn an income from their spectacular art. Students had fun using the bright raffia to weave mats and fans!
NAIDOC week celebrates and recognises the history, culture and achievements of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. It is an opportunity to learn about First Nations culture and histories. This year’s theme is: Keep the Fire Burning! Blak, Loud & Proud.
Week 3 – Fonts and Lettering
Term 3 is Shark Tank time for year five. The students spend the term developing a new innovative product and present their invention at the end of term. To help the students get their displays ready we focused on fonts and lettering makerspace. Students used stencils and examples to create fun fonts and lettering. These funky styles are a great way to make any project or presentation unique and creative!
Week 4 – Friendship Bracelets
Friendship bracelet making is always a popular activity in Makerspace. We used clay beads, letters, numbers and wooden beans to create beautiful bracelets. The students also made calming beaded fidget tools.
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Week 5 – Origami cat rings
Makerspace has been buzzing lately with students crafting their own wearable masterpieces. We’ve been busy braiding friendship bracelets and celebrating World Cat Day with some adorable origami rings. 🐱 Join in the fun every lunchtime in Makerspace!
Makerspace always has a puzzle going, and students take a much needed break working away at this “street foods of the world” puzzle that is tricky and provides interesting imagery, while teaching us about the unique foods around the globe.
Week 6 & 7 – Worry Dolls and Mindful Doodling
Student wellbeing is so important and Makerspace a wonderful place to escape and immerse yourself in creative and fun activities. This week we chased our worries away at Makerspace. Based on the Guatemalan tradition we made tiny worry dolls. The tradition is that Children tell their worries to the worry dolls, and place them under their pillow when they go to bed at night. By morning the dolls have gifted them with the wisdom and knowledge to eliminate their worries. We have also been stenciling letters in preparation for our ‘Sharktank’ displays and admiring lots of fabulous art works.
Week 8 – Pom-Pom garland
Makerspace students have been making pom pom garlands this week. Experimenting with methods, colours, and textures the students collaborated, problem solved and had a great time yarning! Lots of lovely Father’s Day cards have been created in Makerspace this week too!
Week 9
Makerspace was packed with projects last week! Students were working on creative assessments like the year 5 Shark Tank presentations and the year 8 board game assignment. Other students were making beetles with a creative use of colour and symmetry!
Week 10
Belated Book Week celebrations and an author visit this week with Victoria Carless have inspired students to create their own books. Student are stitching in the sets of pages and making hardcovers for their books. The fabulous Victoria Carless spoke to our Years 5 and 6 students about the process of writing narrative fiction.
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Term 2, 2024
Makerspace is a fun collaborative space. A place to make new friends, try new equipment, a place be creative and curious. Students can come to Makerspace before school and at lunchtime. Each week we have an activity where you can learn, or do your own creating and making.
Week 1 – Upcycled Braided Necklaces
We created upcycled braided necklaces in Makerspace to kick off Term 2. Using strips of fabric, we braided them together and fastened them with knots and hot glue. Then we cut out flower shapes out of the same fabric and used buttons as the centre piece to decorate our necklaces.
To help us store works in progress, we are creating paper boxes out of old magazine paper. Many of our students also enjoy sewing…pillows, clothing, and gifts!
Week 2 – Poppies for ANZAC Day
Honouring all the people who have sacrificed their lives in past wars, our students have contributed to our display wreath of rosemary, with paper poppies for Anzac Day.
We like to mix our learning with fun activities, but also mindful projects for those students who are wanting to take a break. It took only days for us to finish this beautiful puzzle by artist Rachel Ignotofsky about “What’s inside a flower?”
Week 3 – Mother’s Day Origami Tulips
Origami is a very popular activity amongst our students, and recently, we made origami tulips and other paper flowers in preparation for Mother’s Day. Other gifts are also being made for mum, or that special someone who has made an impact in our lives! All those lovely thoughts of the women in our lives were highlighted by a beautiful rainbow outside of Makerspace.
Week 4 – Pop Up 3D Cards
A perfect pairing to go with our flowers and other gifts, students made beautiful pop-up cards for mum, or a special loved one.
Lettering, fine motor skills cutting out flowers and cute critters, and designing special elements for each card are skills honed this week.
Makerspace always has a puzzle going, and students take a much needed break working away at this “street foods of the world” puzzle that is tricky and provides interesting imagery, while teaching us about the unique foods around the globe.
Week 5 – Marble Run
Some creative and interesting marble runs were made by students in Makerspace. Using recycled materials, the students assembled impressive structures, while problem solving ways to prevent the marbles from getting stuck, falling over the edges, or landing in the wrong spot.
Week 6 – Mixed Media Bee Art and Sorry Day
The world celebrated World Bee Day on May 20th so we thought it fitting to create art inspired by such critical creatures to our ecosystem. Students used acrylic paint, bubble wrap, paper, a bee stencil, pastels and other tools to create beautiful mixed media bee art.
Week 7 – SPLAT Design Challenge
Makerspace was buzzing with many different activities, including art for National Reconciliation Week, finishing a 1000 piece jig saw puzzle, creating little critters out of pipe cleaners, and using our SPLAT 3D tools to create 3-D rooms, and designs.
Sorry Day was May 26th and was followed by National Reconciliation Week (NRW). The theme for 2024 was “Now More Than Ever”. NRW is a time for all Australians to learn about our shared histories, cultures, and achievements, and to explore how each of us can contribute to achieving reconciliation in Australia.
Now more than ever, the fight for justice and the rights of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people will continue.
Students acknowledged and celebrated NRW in Makerspace with watercolour paintings.
Week 8 – Animal Felt Bookmarks
Cute felt bookmarks were made in Makerspace. There were different styles, but each started with tracing a shape onto two pieces of felt, cutting, and applying a blanket stitch to sew both together. Some details were added either by ribbon, or glued felt and at the end, students were able to use their bookmarks for their current read.
Week 9 – Marshmallow Challenge
Our last week, and what a way to end the term! We held a different marshmallow challenge every day and the students did a great job thinking about how to build the tallest structure, strongest bridge, something that rotates and something that is round in shape. Students ate their weight in marshmallows but what structures!
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Term 1, 2024
Makerspace is a fun collaborative space. A place to make new friends, try new equipment, a place be creative and curious. Students can come to Makerspace before school and at lunchtime. Each week we have an activity where you can learn, or do your own creating and making.
Week 1 – Giant Colouring
To kick off Term 1, we enjoyed making new friends with collaborative activities, including giant colouring in. This was a great ice breaker for the students, new and old, to meet other students, reconnect with friends, and unwind with some meditative colouring.
Week 2 – Giant windball – Makedo
In Makerspace this week, we made giant Makedo windballs. We had fun designing and decorating each cardboard piece with school spirit or anything out of the students’ imagination. To assemble the pieces, we used the Makedo construction set, which includes screwdrivers and bolts.
Week 3 – Friendship Bracelets
With a special someone visiting Australia, we thought it was good karma to celebrate with some friendship bracelets. It took some fine motor skills to string the small beads onto the various types of string we had. We learned double sliding knots and single sliding knots too. The students made bracelets for themselves, their friends, their teachers and their sisters! This was a popular activity and we had many visitors every lunch period.
Week 4 – Valentines Waterfall Heart
A week of love celebrating Galentine’s Day inspired interactive card making with our love heart waterfall cards. This activity employed some fine motor skills, cutting out each heart, and following instructions on how to assemble the card so the hearts moved in a waterfall. Cards were made for friends, family and teachers!
Week 5 – Creative Critter – Makedo
Lots of creativity, structural designing, planning, problem solving and fun to be had in Makerspace with our Makedo Creative Critter competition. Students used recycled materials and our Makedo tools to assemble their critters, which ranged from animals, to mythical creatures. The only rules were: critters had to be no larger than a shoe box, no glue, staples or tape allowed. Assemblage was with recycled materials or with Makedo screws. There were some creative critters!
Week 6 – Recurring Pattern Making
We made recurring patterns, drawing whatever objects, or things, that inspired the students, onto one sheet of A4 paper, with the pattern continuing off all four edges by folding each of the edges over and into the centre of the page. The paper was scanned and sent to their school emails. Once students received their scanned files, they could copy and paste into a document many times to create an ongoing pattern and print out onto A3 paper. Some students planned on using their patterns for cards, wrapping paper, or as a background layer for a piece of art.
Week 7 – Scribble Bots
We created scribble bots using little motors and connecting them to batteries for power, learning about simple circuitry. The students had to also figure out how much weight to attach to the motor, where to place the motor, and the position of the markers. We tried different types of batteries, and different types of writing tools.
This week was filled with many other activities as we prepared for our annual Open Day and brought out some fun kits for our students to try out, such as Makey Makey and Turing Tumble. Makey Makey encourages people to find creative ways to interact with their computers by using everyday objects, such as a banana or Play-Doh, as a replacement for keyboards and mice. This kit teaches students about conductivity and musical circuitry. Turing Tumble is a logic puzzle solving activity that mimics mechanical computing and challenges students to use bits and gears to figure out pathways for the marbles to move through.
Week 8 – Lego Architecture
Lego Architecture was very popular in Makerspace. The students enjoyed assembling the Lincoln Memorial, Big Ben and the Leaning Tower of Pisa. We also learned how to make mini origami plants, which were great landscape accompaniments to our buildings!
Week9 – Easter Egg Sprouts
Preparing for Easter, the students used eggshells, cotton balls and cress seeds to plant their egg heads. Many fun faces and hairstyles were drawn onto the egg shells. The heads were watered so their hair would be reading for the Easter bunny!
Week 10 – Easter Egg Baskets
Students needed something to help carry their egg heads home with them so little baskets made from paper cups were cut and folded using a little bit of hot glue for the handles. Needless to say, their little egg heads looked happy!
For those who made egg heads and still wanted to do an Easter activity, we had bunnies to decorate with patterns and eye glasses. Designing patterns on the bunny was meant to be a relaxing end of year activity, which the students enjoyed.
As always, we like to encourage creativity and are open to various activities throughout Makerspace every week. This week was no different, as we had some birthday card making, puzzling, and sewing going on.
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Term 4, 2023
Makerspace is a fun collaborative space. A place to make new friends, try new equipment, a place be creative and curious. Students can come to Makerspace before school and at lunchtime. Each week we have an activity you can learn, or you can do your own creating and making.
Week 1 & 2 – Friendship Bracelets
To kick off Term 4 we made Friendships bracelets. Although learning the pattern may be challenging to begin with, once you get the hang of it, you can make them anywhere anytime. We’ve been making striped, chevron and beaded bracelets – multi coloured and in school colours.
Week 3 – Lego Spike Prime
LEGO Spike Prime Kit a fantastic tool for STEAM learning. The kit combines colourful LEGO construction with a programable multi-port hub and intuitive drag and drop coding language based on Scratch. This kit is a fabulous fun addition to our Makerspace providing creative learning opportunities, engaging students in critical thinking and problem solving – developing essential 21sxt century skills. We have also continued with making Friendship bracelets and creative monster families with pipe cleaners, pompoms and googly eyes.
Week 4 – Spiderweb Weaving
Makerspace is frightful with week with Creepy Crawly spider web weaving and Spooky Stories keeping us on the edge of our seats.
Week 5 – Spooky Stories
Our delightful drama teachers and library staff have been reading spooky stories this week in the library reading cave at lunchtime in week 5. Helped with costumes, candles and very enthusiastic student participation – we have heard some spinetingling spooky stories.
Week 6 – Felt Bookmarks
We have Christmas all wrapped up. This week we have been making gift bookmarks – felt hearts edged with a blanket stitch that fit neatly onto the corner of a page. We’ve been upcycling old books to make bows for the top of presents and upcycling catalogues to make Christmas tree tabletop ornaments and using off-cuts to make glitter foam bows.
Week 7 & 8 – Christmas Craft
In the wind down to school holidays we have been making Christmas cards for teachers and friends and enjoying fiction talks to inspire Holiday reading. Just 20 minutes of reading a day can make a huge contribution to our academic performance, vocabulary, critical thinking, writing skills, our ability to socialize and most importantly our wellbeing. Happy Holidays!
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Term 3, 2023
Makerspace is a fun collaborative space. A place to make new friends, try new equipment, a place be creative and curious. Students can come to Makerspace before school and at lunchtime. Each week we have an activity that you can do or you can do your creating and making.
Week 1 – NAIDOC week leaf art
To celebrate NAIDOC week in July Makerspace students painted eucalyptus leaves in beautiful detail to create this stunning collaborative piece. NAIDOC week in an opportunity for all Australians to learn about First Nations cultures and histories and participate in celebrations of the oldest, continuous living cultures on earth.
Week 2 – Weaving Wall Hangings
Students used popsicle sticks and yarn to make these detailed colourful wall hangings. This fun lunchtime activity required creativity and commitment and the results are stunning. Thanks to mrbs activity room for the creative idea.
Week 3 – Spheros
Makerspace is a fun, creative space for all AHS students. Drop in before school or at lunch time to play a game, solve a puzzle, design and create something interesting. This week students have been preparing for our Lego Masters Competition to be held during Science Week. Students are busy sorting the generous donations of Lego from AHS families so we can create our very own Brick Pit for the competition. Our year 6 students have been utilising the Makerspace to work on their collaborative and creative Shark Tank projects.
Week 5 – Lego Masters
Makerspace is brick-tastic with excitement for our LEGO Masters lunchtime competitions. We kicked off today with a 10 minute ‘Bird’ challenge. The students showed great innovation and creativity using interesting brick shapes and colours, resulting in fantastic designs.
Week 6 – Lego Masters Competition
Albert Einstein once remarked, “Creativity is intelligence having fun,” and our students have been having a lot of fun creating in Makerspace in Term 3.
Sustainability and scientific curiosity are at the core of our projects and this term, which have included recycling scrap paper to make plantable cards. To celebrate Science Week we’ve had lots of creative fun with lunchtime LEGO competitions. Many thanks to the generous donations of pre-loved LEGO from AHS families.
Makerspace is a creative and inspiring place to grow. It’s open to all our students, every day, before school and at lunchtime. Students are welcome to join in our weekly projects or just take time to be creative and curious.
Week 8 – Paws author visit from Kate Foster
We created origami dogs and ‘Paws’ bookmarks to celebrate Book Week and our visit from author Kate Foster, who always features dogs in her fabulous stories.
Week 9 – Mindful games and innovative inventions
Our Year 5 students are using the Makerspace before school and at lunchtimes, to work on their Shark Tank projects. Fantastic innovations brought to life by the collaborative efforts of our creative young entrepreneurs.
Makerspace is the place to grow, learning new games, being challenged by puzzles, taking time out to be mindful and meeting up with friends.
Week 10 – Mancala and other games
Winding down to the school holidays we have been learning how to play Mancala, an ancient strategy board game with two players taking turns the objective is to capture the most glass beads. Spot It, Guess Who and Bananagrams are also popular games in our library.
