{"id":31841,"date":"2024-08-16T12:45:26","date_gmt":"2024-08-16T02:45:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/mlc\/?post_type=article&#038;p=31841"},"modified":"2024-08-16T12:51:49","modified_gmt":"2024-08-16T02:51:49","slug":"year-6-42","status":"publish","type":"article","link":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/mlc\/article\/year-6-42\/","title":{"rendered":"Year 6 Have Special Visitors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We were very fortunate to have two special visitors join Year 6 to share their expertise about civil engineering and how they design society. This relates to our CLP units throughout Term 2 and Term 3 about Sydney Science Park and designing a new city to be innovative, liveable and sustainable.<\/p>\n<p>Students discussed how infrastructure and architecture are related to building and improving common society pain points in society. <strong>Ben Williams<\/strong> (Father of <strong>Charlotte Williams<\/strong> in 6B) and Alice Bowers from their consulting company AECOM shared their expertise with the Year 6 students, enabling them to think and formulate solutions that the students were aware of, including congestion on Parramatta Road. Bringing in real-life expertise in the form of parents and friends enables students\u2019 ideas to springboard for their major Showcase project that they will be sharing at the end of Term 3 with parents, carers and experts from Sydney Science Park and CSIRO.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>&#8211; Year 6 Teachers<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We were very fortunate to have two special visitors join Year 6 to share their expertise about civil engineering and how they design society. This relates to our CLP units throughout Term 2 and Term 3 about Sydney Science Park and designing a new city to be innovative, liveable and sustainable. Students discussed how infrastructure [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":31850,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","article_category":[5],"article_tag":[],"class_list":["post-31841","article","type-article","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","article_category-junior-school"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/mlc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article\/31841","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/mlc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/mlc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/article"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/mlc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31841"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/mlc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31850"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/mlc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"article_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/mlc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article_category?post=31841"},{"taxonomy":"article_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/mlc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article_tag?post=31841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}