National Science Week

It is great to be involved in Science Week activities this week. The National theme is “Innovation Powering Future Industries” and there are various themed Science events happening around Brisbane this week. Have fun!

BEBRAS

Last call for students wanting to participate in the BEBRAS Computational thinking competition. Come along Wednesday second break and where we will be “training our brains”.

Minecraft

Minecraft Education has recently been introduced into the year 5/6 Science and Digital Technologies subjects. Only students in that grade level have full access to the Minecraft resources. All other students have a limit of ten visits to the Minecraft Education servers. After that time they are locked out. We have had many younger students visiting the computer lab during lunchtimes and logging on to Minecraft. I am asking parents/guardians to support the policy that only years 5 and 6 use Minecraft Education at Enoggera State School as part of their learning program.

I feel it is timely to mention that for student use of Minecraft at home, parents/guardians should please monitor the activity closely as the public Minecraft  servers are not monitored or filtered for profanity in chat. Although Minecraft is a highly stimulating activity that promotes creativity and problem solving, it does require a level of maturity, especially when operating in “Survival” or “Hardcore” modes. I look forward to promoting the educational benefits of using Minecraft Education at Enoggera.

Michael Harris