Posts By Kerrie Cogger
Robogals and Year 6
On the 16th of August 2019 the Year 6 girls had an incursion with UWA students David and Sestley. They introduced our girls to a fun project called Robogals!
This programme is specifically just for girls. Unfortunately only 14% of women are in engineering careers. There are different types of engineering like chemical, electrical, software, civil and mechanical engineering.
We were split into 3-4 groups and each group got a robot with a code name on it. In my group I had Maureen, Olivia, Mia S and myself. Our robots name was The Hobbot. Each group got an Ipad and went onto an app. On our app you could programme your robot to move in any direction.
Emily Warren Roebling was a developer who was known for her contribution to finish building the Brooklyn Bridge after her husband Washington Roebling died from Caisson Disease. After Emily’s husband died she found loads of books on civil engineering and taught herself from scratch. Emily’s husband was a civil engineer and the Chief Engineer during the construction of the Bridge. Sadly Emily died on the 28th of February 1903.
We learned that there are different types of engineering that can do different types of things, for example Aerospace engineering helps with space. Generation engineering helps with GMO (Genetically Modified Organisms).
Towards the end of the incursion we got to create a little dance or song and perform it to the other girls.
This was a really fun incursion for the girls because it encourages us to dream big and be whatever we want to be.
A special thanks to Mrs Cogger for letting us have this opportunity. 
And thanks to David and Sestley from UWA for volunteering to do this.
You both helped us out a lot and it is much appreciated.
By Ava Thorpe
Congratulations to St Emilie’s winning Nature of Science design competition
Congratulations to the following students who won awards at the Community Science Expo run by SERCUL and the City of Canning. The students were awarded their prizes at the opening ceremony on Sunday at CREEC.
Alicia was selected as the Year 1 winner
Jermaine was selected as the Year 3 winner.
Lyana was selected as the Year 6 winner.
Zavier and Ella were awarded Highly Commended for their entries and also received a prize.
6B Enjoy Curtin STEM Outreach
This week it was our Year 6B students turn to enjoy an incursion with INCURSION WITH Angie and Sang Curtin STEM outreach with the Snap on Kits.
Here are some photos of the students enjoying the construction of three challenges using the Snap on Kit.
Nature of Science Community Expo
Mrs Cogger is keen to encourage all our budding scientists at St Emilie’s to attend this local event. Our students have entered the Design a Logo competition and the winning entry (yet to be announced) will feature in the Community Expo banner.
National Schools Tree Planting Day
On Friday schools across Australia celebrated National Schools Tree Planting Day. National Tree Day is a call to action for all Australians to put their hands in the earth and give back to their community. Each year, about 300,000 people volunteer their time to engage in environmental activities that educate individuals about the world around them. It was a day for our Year 4 students to venture outdoors and get to get their hands dirty and have some fun!
St Emilie’s is also proud to announce that we recently received a Woolworths Junior Landcare Grant. This money was used to purchase 10 large eucalyptus trees to replant in our school bushland. Mr Cogger purchased tree species suited to our bushland setting in the southern suburbs and also resistant to dieback.
Here are some photos of our Year 4 students enjoying the experience. Mrs Cogger and the students would also like to thank the parents who volunteered and assisted small groups of students to plant the trees.
Science Newsletter Term 3
Checking up on our potatoes in Year One
The Year One students planted their potatoes on Friday 24th May. Every week they visited the garden beds along with Mrs Cogger and Mrs Roberto to see how many potatoes had come up.
Every week more and more potatoes popped up! This week we counted 39 potatoes. Here are a few photos of our students examining their potato seedlings.
Thanks to Seed Potatoes for Schools WA for supporting us with this project. We are all thoroughly enjoying it.
Snap on Kits with Curtin STEM Outreach
This week our 6G students enjoyed an incursion with Brad and Aleesha from Curtin University.
The Curtin STEM Outreach program is committed to providing opportunities for future scientists and engineers, as well as their educators – encouraging them to learn new skills, meet like-minded people and spark excitement for science and engineering.
Aleesha and Brad presented an activity that incorporated simple circuits using electric snap on kits. They commenced the presentation by demonstrating the flow of electrons and how static electricity works.
The children were required to meet a challenge by imagining they were stranded in the in an underground cave : How would they alert rescuers? How would they keep cool in the heat? And what would they use for light in the pitch black of night?
Using the Snap on Kits, the students were able to successfully create all three devices and complete the challenge.
We thank Brad and Aleesha from Curtin STEM Outreach for an informative and exciting incursion
Vote for St Emilie’s
St Emilie’s is a Waterwise School. Throughout the year Mrs Cogger submits activities to the Waterwise Schools ‘Ripple Effect’ blog. Ripple Effect is about sharing our water education activities, exploring what other schools are doing and voting for our favourites!
Here is a submission that Mrs Cogger entered in Term 4 last year. Waterwise Schools is inundated with blog posts from schools all around WA. Finally St Emilie’s 2018 Year 6 graduating class has been recognised for their work on aquatic weeds.
Click on this link to read the post and then VOTE for us!
