Boronia Heights acknowledges the diversity of learning styles, abilities, interests and talents.
To support this, we offer a wide range of enrichment and extra-curricular opportunities including:
- Peer Support Program
- Buddy Program
- Curriculum focussed Excursions
- Sex Education
- UNSW Competitions
- Maths Olympiad
- Instrumental Music Program
- Junior and Senior Choirs
- Musical Production
- Swimming Instruction
- Inter-school Sports
- Camps
- Junior School Council
- Band
- Transition Activities – Prep and Year 6
- Literacy and Numeracy Support
- Lunchtime Activities.
- Bike Ed
- Gardening Club
- Public Speaking
Harvest to Table
Harvest to Table is an exciting program offered to the Year Three students at Boronia Heights Primary School. The aim of this program is to use authentic learning experiences to engage the students and teach them a range of real-life skills, knowledge and understanding across several key learning areas.
Students work towards learning outcomes from several syllabuses, including Mathematics (weighing, timing, measuring etc.), Science (how things grow, how heat affects objects etc.), Literacy (reading and interpreting recipes, instructions etc.), Health (food safety, healthy choices etc.) and Personal Development (working as a team, patience for plants and produce, managing emotions if vegetables don’t develop etc.). They will also further develop a greater understanding of environmental impact and sustainability.
Students work with fresh vegetables, fruits, and compost during the garden session. During kitchen time, the students will be cutting, preparing, handling food and cooking using various equipment, such as a stove and frypan. Students will also get the opportunity to eat the foods they harvest and cook.
Little Sprouts
Little Sprouts is a program offered to Prep students at Boronia Heights Primary School. This unique program aims to provide a nature based learning experience for students to explore creative thinking, problem solving, use of fine motor skills, and connections with the environment. The Little Sprouts program has its own specific garden area where students can grow their own vegetables. This allows the students to observe the problems that may arise from growing plants such as good and bad pests, weather conditions for growing and how we can solve these situations. It also gives the students a sense of responsibility and achievement with the end results of their planting a wonderful tasting of their produce.Also in the garden area there is a sensory garden, bug hotel/minibeast land, and nature play area. We use these areas to explore a sense of open-ended and unstructured nature play whereby the students learn to create, communicate and collaborate while exploring their environment.
When the weather doesn’t allow us to venture outside we have planned lessons that we create inside the classroom such as minibeast investigations, healthy foods, how plants grow, and exploring our environment.
We hope the Little Sprouts program creates a curiosity and a love of learning about our natural environment and the benefits of enjoying the great outdoors.