Year 7 cohort completed another exciting learning week, ‘Jewellery Skills Week’ during which the students used all of their learned skills from STEM to make jewellery for their PBL.
The Year 7 students have been learning about Ancient Worlds in HUMS and will now connect these two topics by creating a contemporary piece of jewellery that represents their chosen Ancient World.
The students began the week by getting creative with polymer clay and moved onto sawing and saw piercing metal into different shapes and sizes. By Wednesday the students were busy filing their piece of jewellery and moved onto practising the various ways to texture a piece of metal. The students watched demonstrations of ring making and by the end of the week had a piece of jewellery ready to be polished and taken home.
The clases are now reflecting on the skills learnt and beginning to work through the engineering design process to create their contemporary piece of jewellery.
Alicia Whitton
STEM Team
