Celebrating National Science Week in the Junior School
Science Week was extended an extra week at The Knox School, giving students even more time for discovery, creativity and fun after two year levels returned from camp.
National Science Week is Australia’s annual celebration of science and technology, held each August with thousands of events across the country. The theme for 2025 was “Decoding the Universe – Exploring the unknown with nature’s hidden language”.
Our Year 6 students launched the week with an engaging assembly filled with lively demonstrations and experiments to spark curiosity across the Junior School.
Throughout the week, each year level explored a different area of science:
- Prep discovered the magic of magnets
- Year 1 explored materials by making slime and playdough
- Year 2 learned about constellations and space
- Year 5 investigated light
- Year 6 uncovered patterns in nature through the Fibonacci sequence
Every activity encouraged students to see science as creative, surprising and fun.
Mission:SPACE – Building Mars Landers
Adding to the excitement, our Year 5 students began the Mission:SPACE program, run in partnership with the Australian Space Agency and SciTech. The Knox School is proud to be one of only 100 schools across Australia selected for this opportunity.
Students are learning about engineering, design and problem-solving as they build their own Mars landers, discovering what it takes to survive and succeed on another planet. Their projects will be displayed at the Junior School TAD Show in Term 4.
STEM Video Game Challenge – Subway 2.0
Meanwhile, a team of talented Year 6 students: Navid Anzary, Lucas Wu, Lucas Ping and Adam Wilson, represented our School in the Australian STEM Video Game Challenge.
This year’s theme was Journey, and their game Subway 2.0 advanced to the second of three rounds, just missing out on the final. Judges praised the team’s sense of humour, original sprites, score counter and highly functional gameplay.
Their project, which tells the quirky story of Dave and his sandwich submarine, is an outstanding example of creativity, collaboration and coding skill.
National Science Week reminds us that science is not just about answers, but about curiosity, imagination and bold ideas. Our Junior School students have shown they are more than ready to decode the universe.
