STEM at Ardross Primary School is all about sustainability, creativity and design, and finding solutions for the modern world and future. We integrate the school kitchen garden and chickens into the curriculum areas of Science, Technologies, Engineering and Mathematics with a STEM specialist teacher. Students learn to research, collaborate, design, produce, reflect, communicate and improve their work using both digital and design principles. The inquiry process to learning in the STEM area, is integrated into learning across the curriculum and into classrooms, facilitating a learning program that encourages students to be inquisitive, critical and creative thinkers.
A highlight of our STEM calendar is the It takes a Spark Conference, Solar Car Challenges, Billy Cart designing and creating, Robotics, Paper Boat Challenges, and Science Week.
At Ardross Primary School, responsible technology use is embedded through our Technologies program, where students use digital tools to develop coding, computational thinking, creativity and problem-solving skills. Students follow the Ardross Online Code by being safe, respectful, responsible and smart: using approved platforms for learning, protecting passwords and personal information, communicating kindly, acknowledging sources, caring for equipment and reporting unsafe content. These expectations are reinforced through our Online Services Agreement, supervision and explicit teaching of digital citizenship.