The STEM program at Healesville Primary School is based around the key ideas of curiosity, problem solving and collaboration. Students in Foundation to Year 6 participate in weekly one hour STEM lessons with our STEM specialist teacher. Where they are given the opportunity to participate in a wide range of hands-on activities and challenges that revolve around Science, Design Technology and Digital Technology. We also offer a lunchtime STEM club where children can come and further their love of STEM.

In Foundation – Year 2, students are provided with practical activities, enabling them to further extend their thinking. Using a range of building materials to solve problems and tackle design challenges. Children begin to learn about STEM and the Design process through the use of Storybook STEM and then move on to more complex design, engineering and scientific concepts, such as force, light and sound, simple machines, materials and biological and chemical science.

In Years 3-6, students explore a range of scientific and engineering concepts using hands-on activities designed to awaken curiosity and encourage perseverance. There is a strong focus on developing higher-order thinking skills by emphasising collaboration, communication, research, problem-solving, critical thinking and creativity. 

Digital technologies are an integral part of our STEM program. Where students have access to a variety of ICT (Information and Communication Technology) which enables them to develop their computer and technology skills in order to create and communicate information and ideas. We believe that it is important to equip students with skills for the future so in STEM class they have access to our variety of programmable Bots and learn how to code using programs such as Scratch.