Kickstart Online

KickStart programs run during the school holidays at the beginning of the year. These are programs that are split into two 1-hour sessions, that take a deep-dive into a particular topic. They are designed to ignite and rekindle a sense of wonder and enthusiasm for learning before the school year begins.

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20 January | Years: 1 and 2

The Junior School Number Ninjas have been training hard, tackling all sorts of tricky maths challenges to prepare for the Mighty Mathematician’s Competition. But with only three days to go… disaster strikes!...

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20 January | Years: 1 and 2

Ever imagined what it would be like to be a scientist classifying dinosaurs? Or wondering if that dinosaur is going to eat you or if it’s a herbivore?...

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20 January | Years: 3 and 4

Maths and Lego!? What a great combo! Come and join me (and bring some Lego!!) so that we can build on both your maths skills and Lego bricks! We will be looking at financial calculations, decimals and fractions...

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20 January | Years: 3 and 4

Character Connections: Characters are one of the most crucial elements of storytelling yet who are they? Where do they come from? And why do they matter?...

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20 January | Years: 5 and 6

Look out! You could be tickled by a tiger! Certain? Certainly not… But impossible? Not impossible either… Everyday we walk around with a myriad of unseen mathematical possibilities and patterns that are constantly brushing past us and tripping...

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20 January | Years: 5 and 6

What if you could understand how a computer works using the same ideas behind Minecraft Redstone — without needing to play Minecraft at all?...

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21 January | Years: 1 and 2

An old traveller’s chest has washed up on the beach… but who does it belong to, and what secret might it be hiding? Our mission is to uncover the truth before the tide returns...

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21 January | Years: 1 and 2

Join Paddington (and don’t forget a marmalade sandwich!) and travel to deepest darkest Peru to learn more about the science of heat and its effects on solids and liquids and begin to...

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21 January | Years: 3 and 4

Can you really rob the most famous museum in the world in broad daylight, in 8 minutes? Can you then scoot away with 88 million euro worth of crown jewels? Apparently so. Did knowing maths really help the robbers...

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21 January | Years: 3 and 4

Ignatius Bloat explored the Amazon Rainforest, the Black Forest of Transylvania and even the dung plains of the Serengeti searching for the most disgusting creatures for his Yuckopedia. But what exactly is a Yuckopedia?

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21 January | Years: 5 and 6

The village of Berk now has a dedicated DDC – Dragon Discovery Centre – and you are one of its new Dragon Geneticists. Your boss – Mucal Grumbleson – has asked you to create a family tree of all of the known dragon species...

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20 January | Years: 5 and 6

Short But Curly: Blindsided by the true identity of a ship's captain. Dazzled by the beauty of new growth after a savage pruning. Awe-struck by the transformation of the mundane to the mystical. That’s the thing with carefully crafted curveballs

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21 January | Years: 5 and 6

What if equations could draw pictures? In this two-session workshop, students discover how numbers, letters, and coordinates work together to make patterns—and even shapes...

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