Last Wednesday our Year 5 girls received a special 2 hour robotics workshop from Robogals, a student run organisation that aims to engage schoolgirls in engineering topics from a young age. Research shows that in Years 5 and 6, girls’ perception of STEM (Science,...

Over the holidays the Kiss and Drive was constructed to be ready for business on day one. A big thank you to Kayne Wardrope who coordinated the works on behalf of the P&C. By now you would have received information on how to make use of this initiative. We had a...

UWA's Engineers Without Borders believe that technology plays a vital role in humanitarian development within local communities across the world.   Five UWA engineers visited Coolbinia Year 5 students this week, as part of a STEAM project about clean water.  Our...

Last Thursday 20 Year 6 River Rangers attended the Kids Teaching Kids Conference in Mandurah.  The students conducted two workshops at the conference on various environmental issues they had studied this year.  The title of their workshop was:  Using digital...

Congratulations to our Year 5 and 6 Inspire students who during Term 3 participated with more than 20,000 students from around the world in the Grok Learning NCSS Challenge 2018. They competed for 5 weeks, learning to code by solving interesting and engaging problems....

Our Coolbinia Chess club recently participated in the Annual Interschool Haydn Barber Chess Tournament. 30 members of the chess club attended the competition and even though we did not win any medals on either days, our teams displayed the schools values of strive,...

In 2016 Coolbinia Primary implemented a whole school STEAM (Science, Technologies, Engineering, the Arts and Mathematics) butterfly program to support the conservation of local butterfly species.  Students watched the life cycle of butterflies in their classrooms, and...

... From Garden Bed to Kwobadarn Tables! Coolbinia's Stephanie Alexander Kitchen Garden program is deeply linked with other learning areas.  For example, this term students have been learning in: Humanities and Social Sciences - farming and tools (Year 3), Science...

Congratulations to the Coolbinia Netball Club on yet another fantastic winter competition. The club attracted over 35 players this season who represented teams from Year 3 through to Year 6. The club are proud to advise that two of their teams finished on top of their...

The culmination of our hard work over the past two terms led to our appearance and performance at the RoboCup State event last Friday. Our four teams, The Dragons, Waterpatrol, The Rabbits and The Australian Outback Party, competed against another forty teams to win a...

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Artopia 2018 featured 3D creations in the context of the NAIDOC Week theme 'because of her, we can!'. Celebrations began with a special assembly conducted by the Year 4/5 class.  Aboriginal women who demonstrated...

NAIDOC Week at Coolbinia Primary is a rich learning experience for our children!  First there were Indigenous Games in Physical Education lessons, followed by the NAIDOC Week stall and activities each day, then on Friday our NAIDOC assembly and annual Artopia...

This semester our Technology program will change from Digital Technologies to Design and Technologies. Knowledge, understandings and skills involved in the design, development and use of technologies are influenced by, and can play a role in, enriching and...

On Saturday 23 June, our Year 5 and 6 Robotics Club students took part in the RoboCup Junior - Perth Metro South event at All Saints' College, Bull Creek. This was an opportunity for our students to practise and perform their LEGO EV3 robot performances in front of a...

On Wednesday 20 June the school choir and a selection of Year 6 students participated in the inaugural Meraki Festival at the Perth Convention and Exhibition Centre. The aim of the festival was to promote the participation and engagement of performing arts activities...

The last day of chess for Term 2 will be Tuesday 26 June. No new members will be taken in Term 3. Chess for Life Morning Chess Club will recommence in Term 3 on the first Tuesday back at school in the library from 7.30am till 8.30am. Thank you to Parents and Staff for...

At 9.00am we boarded the bus and departed on the one hour drive to Dwellingup Camp. When we finally got there we were given our first brief. Then we went on our first activity, Ambush, which was a fun game in the bush. We were then assigned groups rotating jobs such...