Curriculum Events

Students can take part in many events based around curriculum areas. These include:

• Tournament of Minds
• Year 8 World of Maths Incursion
• Year 9 You Can Do It
• Year 9 Activities Week
• Year 9 City Project – A Rich Task Based on a Fertile Question

Tournament of Minds (TOM)

Tournament of Minds is a creative thinking and problem solving program that is run annually in every Australian State and Territory, culminating in an Australian Final in October. Justice Michael Kirby launched the program in Melbourne in 1986.

TOM objectives

• To provide the challenge of real, open-ended problems
• To develop creative problem solving approaches and techniques
• To foster cooperative learning and team-work
• To promote knowledge and appreciation of self and others
• To encourage experimentation and risk taking
• To expand and reward creative and divergent thinking
• To stimulate a spirit of inquiry and a love of learning
• To develop enterprise
• To celebrate excellence
• To model “real life” solutions to problems

More about TOM on next page.