The Foundry
The Foundry is the school's purpose-built makerspace - a learning environment designed to encourage students to build, experiment and prototype inventions as they engage deeply in science, technology, engineering, arts and mathematics.
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Grade 8, split into two classes with five groups, were tasked with an 'Intensive week' project to design and build an eight-foot square model of a refugee shelter.
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In The Foundry, Middle School students designed, built and presented various sets for their drama/plays. During this experience, they learned more about empathy, how it connects to the design process and how they could build onto the community with their creativity.
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With the Grade 4 studying Maya culture, the Term 2 intensive project had the students craft original Maya-styled masks. The student group developed engineering, woodworking, and creative experience and skill through the process.
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