Last week, our students, through their Healthy World lessons, engaged in an egg drop challenge. Students had lots of fun whilst also developing their ability to collaborate in small groups to design, construct and test the effectiveness of a contraption. The goal was to design a contraption that would house and protect an egg when dropped from our Level 1 veranda. The eggs and contraptions which survived the drop from our Level 1 veranda, progressed to our Level 2 veranda. I am proud to say we had a number of contraptions designed and built that exceeded the original goal and successfully dropped an egg in its contraption from Level 2, with the egg surviving the fall, unbroken!

Knowledge of individual character strengths were utilised in order to allocate group roles and responsibilities. In many classes, students were allocated to groups thus encouraging students to collaborate with other young people they may not normally work with.

Students learnt valuable communication skills and were encouraged to practice the skill of assertiveness as active group participants.

Reflections were made and discussed about what communication looked like, sounded like and felt like within each group and discussed how this could be improved upon.

Regardless of whether students’ contraptions protected the egg from breaking, all groups were able to experience positive accomplishment in creating a contraption which could hold an egg and be launched successfully. Students displayed amazing support for each other, cheering each other on, when the egg drop challenge itself was in progress.

Well done to all students and teachers for demonstrating our Spirit values of: Perseverance, Integrity, Teamwork, Inclusivity and Respect and Responsibility as they worked through this collaborative design challenge last week.