This course is available for Year 9 students in 2022

Course Description: This course is grounded on a strength based approach to learning built around student curiosity, self-directed learning, and passion-based work. The Project Activation Lab (9PAX) provides students with a choice in what they learn and how they learn it during a set period of time within a school week.

The student-centred approach is only used a portion of the period, with students utilising the Standford D School – Design Thinking framework for the rest.

”As a learning model, it promotes inquiry, research, creativity, and self-directed learning”.

In traditional learning, teachers map out academic standards, and plan units and lessons based around those standards. In 9PAX, students are in control, choosing what they learn, how they learn it, and what they do, produce, or create as a result.

• 2020 Passion Projects included:

  • “Stuff you could know” Podcast about weird & wonderful history
  • Photography Portfolio on Mountain Biking
  • A cat deterrent robot – that used facial recognition software to squirt water at trespassing cats.
  • An interactive guide to Sound Tech at SBHS
  • A Youtube channel with animated historical battle videos
  • A How to Guide to - Magic the Gathering game
  • A clay creature and Dungeons & Dragons narrative
  • Short film of a Day in the life of a teenage skater
  
  

Application & Selection Process

Gifted & Talented and Neurodiverse (dyslexia, dyspraxia, dyscalculia, ASD, ADHD) students are strongly encouraged to apply!

Interested students can apply for consideration to the course by completing the google application form here

Candidates will then meet the Director of Gifted & Talented (Elizabeth Wilson) for an interview in Term 2 to determine their eligibility for the programme.