Programme Summary - Term 3 2025
Brainery
Ages 5 - 13 / 8:45am - 12:15pm
Maths and literacy to grow your child’s confidence and ability.
With a focus on quality personal interactions, social skills and emotional growth, we think outside the box to develop inspired learners covering spelling, handwriting, structured literacy and maths.
For Term 3, our literacy focus will be writing (sentence structure, paragraph structure and writing styles. (varied for students depending on level).
Tuesdays am (seniors)
Wednesdays am (middlers)
Thursdays am (juniors)
Island Survival – A Project-Based Learning Adventure
Seniors / Tuesday 12:45pm - 2:45pm
Stranded? Time to Build, Explore, and Thrive! 🏝️
In this exciting hands-on course, students work as a team to survive on a mysterious island. They’ll tackle 16 real-world design challenges, from fire-starting and water filtering to building treehouses and mapping their island. This course develops collaboration, engineering, research and creativity in a high-energy, immersive environment
STEAM – Science That Stretches the Imagination
Middlers / Wednesday 12:45pm - 2:45pm
Where Curiosity Meets the Extraordinary 🔬
From brain illusions to superpowered animals and future technologies, our Wednesday STEAM sessions explore the wonders of the natural world through experiments, projects and hands-on challenges. Students will develop critical thinking and scientific literacy as they investigate everything from optical illusions to insect societies and NZ’s weirdest weather.
The Brain & Nervous System – Discover How You Think!
Juniors / Thursday 12:45pm - 2:45pm
Unlock the Secrets of How You Think! 🧠
This interactive science course introduces students to the wonders of the brain and nervous system. Through diagrams, model-building and fun experiments, students learn about reflexes, senses, neurons and brain health. The term culminates in the creation of their own ‘Brain Fact Book’—a showcase of all they’ve learned.
Winter School
Year 7-10 / Fridays 8:45am - 2:45pm (Full day)
Stay on Track While You Hit the Slopes ❄️
Flexible school support for snow sports students, homeschoolers, and visitors in Queenstown. Whether you're training on the mountain or just passing through, our Winter School sessions help students keep up with core learning. We offer small-group support in maths, literacy, and individual schoolwork. Perfect for students missing regular school days or needing focused time to catch up and stay confident.