STEM at Nearnung Primary School is informed by the Victorian Teaching and Learning Model and the Victorian Curriculum.

At Nearnung Primary School, we aim to provide a holistic approach to digital technologies including use of a variety of devices in the classroom, refining digital literacy skills, and in a specialised subject area where students aim to become skilled digital citizens with access to a wide range of new and emerging technologies. Our specialist lessons of 60mins duration are conducted each week.

The Digital Technologies curriculum aims to ensure that students can:

• design, create, manage and evaluate sustainable and innovative digital solutions to meet and redefine current and future needs
• use computational thinking and the key concepts of abstraction; data collection, representation and interpretation; specification, algorithms and development to create digital solutions
• apply systems thinking to monitor, analyse, predict and shape the interactions within and between information systems and the impact of these systems on individuals, societies, economies and environments
• confidently use digital systems to efficiently and effectively automate the transformation of data into information and to creatively communicate ideas in a range of settings
• apply protocols and legal practices that support safe, ethical and respectful communications and collaboration with known and unknown audiences.

Digital Technologies - Rationale and Aims - Victorian Curriculum