FUTURE CITIES – FUTURE LIVING

This week Year 7s wrapped up their Bendigo Tech School visits as a conclusion to the Year 7 Humanities unit Future Cities: Bendigo 2040 which fully engaged our students. It was terrific to watch the students participate in the program.

"On Friday 17 October, when we went to the Bendigo Tech School (BTS), we had to use lots of skills. We had to communicate and work in our group to create our future cities. We also had to research and think about what our cities needed. We had to be inclusive in our groups and be open-minded to ideas and think about how to make our cities sustainable." (Isamora Silitonga)

"The first skill that I needed to use at the Bendigo Tech School was teamwork. I used teamwork when collaborating and designing my future city with my classmates. We worked in groups to think of ways to make our cities as sustainable as they could be while still being smart and including everything that people will need to live a happy and healthy life."

"The second skill that I needed to use was my imagination. I had to imagine my city in real life so that I could make changes to it to make it more sustainable and inclusive for all people, supplying them with their needs." (Darcy Minster)

"The skills I used at BTS for the topic of future cities and future living, were teamwork, responsibility and hard work. We had to work collaboratively with each other to create an end result of a sustainable city for everyone to live in. I also had to be responsible as we were using very expensive items like VR headsets and laptops that were not our property, and we were also representing our family and school. We had to work hard to get our final city to be the most sustainable city we can make it." (Sebastian Carmichael)

Special thanks to the teaching team who accompanied our students over six visits: Mr Corey Mylon, Mr Darcy Panayiotis, Ms Bronwyn Burke, Miss Hannah Lewis and Mr Matt Tyrell.