Stage 1 programs

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Geography: People and Places

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Time: Full Day

Location: Red Hill EEC

Students explore people’s connections with places, both locally and globally. Students engage with a range of authentic, interactive activities to develop an understanding of how and why people are connected to places.  Students explore the First Nations concept of Country and their special role in caring for it.

History: Present and Past Family Life (Year 1) (PDF 529KB)

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Time: Full Day

Location: Red Hill EEC

This unit provides a study of present and past family life within the context of the students' own world.  It explores the changes to ‘the family’ over time.

History: Present and Past - Technology Over Time (Year 2)

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Time: Full Day

Location: Red Hill EEC

This unit allows students to explore and experiences the changing technology over time - understand the history of significant technology that has withstood the changing times and those that have revolutionised our way of life.

Holterman Museum

History: How we learn about our Past

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Time: Full Day

Location: Red Hill EEC

Students explore the question ‘What is History?’ and discuss how we learn about it.  Students participate in an interactive illustration of relevant historical events by creating a visual timeline.

Living World: Eco-Spies

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Time: Full Day

Location: Red Hill EEC

Eco-spies explores the features of living things and the ways in which they grow and change. Students will develop an understanding of how living things depend on places in their environment to meet their needs.

Living World: Minibeasts

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Time: Full Day

Location: Red Hill EEC

This program explores the fascinating world of minibeasts! Students will learn about the features, adaptations, classification and habitats of these amazing animals through.

Alpacas

Living World: Our Relationship with Living Things

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Time: Full Day

Location: Red Hill EEC

Students explore how we use and depend on the living things around us and how this relationship needs to be sustainable.  Students engage with a range of focus areas including honeybees, worms, alpacas, chickens and/or First Nations traditional uses.

Physical World: Exploring Energy

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Time: Full Day

Location: Red Hill EEC

This unit explores light, movement, heat and sound and as common forms of energy and how this energy is created, sensed and used.  Students engage with a range of interactive, engaging and hands-on activities using their senses and scientific skills.

Earth and Space: Wonderful Water

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Time: Full Day

Location: Local Waterways

Students participate in fieldwork activities to observe and record the living things found in a riparian aquatic environment. They investigate how water is used in a variety of ways, and identify actions which could be taken to care for and use water sustainably.

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