Wallarano has made significant investments in technologies for education ensuring that teachers and students are equipped with the latest digital tools to provide an authentic learning experience and to prepare our students for the world of tomorrow.
At Wallarano, all students have access to a range of devices including iPads, notebooks, Chromebooks and a traditional computer lab. Students in year 3 to 6 participate in our school funded 1:1 iPad program which allows students to have access to a personalised learning device.
DigiTech Specialist Lessons
Students from Foundation to Grade 2 attend weekly 50 minute DigiTech lessons all year. Students from Grade 3 – Grade 6 attend 50 minute weekly lessons for one semester each year. All lessons are planned in alignment with the Victorian Curriculum 2.0 – Digital Technologies and provide students with opportunities to develop digital literacy, computational thinking, creativity, and problem-solving skills through hands-on learning.
Some of the learning experiences across the year levels include:
- Foundation: Bee-Bots, Coding Awbie, basic digital skills
- Year 1: ScratchJr, keyboard skills, digital storytelling
- Year 2: Podcasts, stop-motion animation, computational thinking
- Years 3–4: Cyber safety, coding with Scratch, Code.org, animations
- Years 5–6: Digital systems, Binary numbers, pixel art, documents, spreadsheets, 3D printing, Drone programming and coding.
What does Digital Technologies look like in the Classroom?
Classroom teachers also integrate the regular use of digital technologies within their lessons and the use of digital technologies links closely with our STEM education approach to learning.
Wallarano Primary School is a Google Workspace Learning School. All students have access to a Google Workspace managed account provided by the Department of Education – including Google Classroom, Drive, Slides, Docs, Sheets and more.
Other supplementary technologies accessible at Wallarano are:
- Minecraft Education Edition
- MetaQuest3 Virtual Reality
- 3D Design and Printing
- Greenscreen Recording Studio
- RODE Podcasting Equipment
And various sets of coding robotics:
- LEGO Spike/EV3
- TelloEdu Drones
- Sphero Bolt
- Dash & Dot
- Osmo Coding
- Micro:Bit
- BeeBots
