Maniacs - Learn through Play

10/02/2025

Recognizing the increasing financial challenges many families face and the abundance of available educational options, I aim to provide transparency and assistance to parents in planning and budgeting for their children's educational needs. Our Maniacs 3-year curriculum is thoughtfully structured to offer students a comprehensive exploration of diverse scientific disciplines while fostering interdisciplinary learning.

Here's a brief overview of our curriculum to help parents make informed decisions:

Term 1: Broad STEAM Exposure
General STEAM series, including chemistry, physics, environmental science, and engineering challenges.

Term 2: Specialized Technology and Innovation
A specialist series that zooms in on technology and innovation.

Term 3: Makerspace
Makerspace series, providing project-based learning, electronics exploration, and innovation.

Term 4: Environmental STEAM
a strong emphasis on outdoor activities whenever possible.

By providing this roadmap, I hope to empower parents to budget effectively and make informed choices about which workshops would be most beneficial for their children.

09/02/2025

Stephanie Kwolek’s groundbreaking invention of Kevlar—born from her 28 patents—has revolutionized safety and industry, protecting lives in bulletproof vests, strengthening aerospace and automotive materials, and redefining high-performance engineering.

Discover more about Stephanie Kwolek’s inspiring legacy on our website: https://link.ie.social/aVVTQk

07/02/2025

coming week is the first week of STEAMfusion. Week 1 we will be building a foosball table while learning about physics.

If you have tickets the term group with notes are here:
https://www.facebook.com/share/g/1A155HsQWU/
please answer the join request questions to help me w**d out scammers and spammers.

23/01/2025

My 13 year old had a ho**ey nut vs bicycle accident on the 21st. (Honkey-nut won)

He broke his wrist (both radius and ulna ) and had 2 procedures done too try and fix it. They used a metal plate and a k- wire to repair. The wire will be pulled out at 4 or 6 weeks and the plate may need to be removed (surgery) as ge grows.

I grabbed some photos of the x-rays for my Maniacs interested in the medical sciences.

15/01/2025

a number of tickets became available due to cancellations. They are available on eventbrite.

https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/term-1-2025-steamfusion-tickets-1070527690139

11/01/2025

31/12/2024

https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/term-1-2025-steamfusion-tickets-1070527690139

Due to high demand, tickets are selling quickly. To ensure availability for term 1, please register promptly.

31/12/2024

31/12/2024

a gorgeous dungbeatle here in the South African bush. This little dude is one of my favourite insects!

31/12/2024

Happy new year Maniacs! I can't wait to see you all again in 2025. Just a few snippets of the past week in africa.

18/12/2024

07/12/2024

This is going to be awesome!

Term 1, 2025, we will be working on being an entrepreneur and building your very own food business.

Together we will be looking at real world food trucks and where they operate before you create your own from scratch. You will be in charge of the planning from start to finish, from the name and designing the logo, the layout of the kitchen and the pricing of the menu and so much more.

In this, we will cover mathematical concepts such as measurement, area, perimeter, decimals (for those ready) and have a fun time while doing it.

I have 2 sessions available, Roleystone and Kalamunda.

🌟 Roleystone will be running fortnightly on Mondays, 11am - 12pm. (Feb 10, Feb 24, March 10, March 24, April 7).
Price: $20 / session + Room Hire ($16 for additional children).

🌟 Kalamunda will run weekly with the sessions alternating between entrepreneurship and math games. Sessions will run Mondays 2pm - 3pm. You are welcome to book in for just maths, just entrepreneurship or can come every week.
👉 Entrepreneurship Only (Feb 10, Feb 24, March 10, March 24, April 7).
👉 Maths Only (Feb 17, March 17, March 31).
👉 Entrepreneurship and Maths (Feb 10 - April 7).
Price: $22 / session ($18 for additional children).

Limited spaces available.

Each week progresses into the next and due to this, bookings must be made for the term.

Years 3 - 6 (Y2 welcome with parent support).

Registration now open here: https://forms.gle/2Yqud1vUgFhZ3Jna8

07/12/2024

07/12/2024

I was asked for Tickets availability update so people can decide when to purchase for term 1.
Here it is.

link to tickets. https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/term-1-2025-steamfusion-tickets-1070527690139

06/12/2024

One of our honeschool parents Freyja Vor are organising an amazing holiday session. It will be amazing for those wanting to prep for highschool academic programs like Gate and LEAP and learn just general test writing skills.

Scholarship and testing preparation course with Dr John West. The course would be pitched at students who are in year 6 next year. There will potentially be 7 classes covering the following content:

Session 1:
-Introduction to scholarship tests
-Identification of target skills
-Developing test taking and time management skills

Session 2:
-General ability testing
-Test taking strategies
-Identification of key skills
-Skill development and sample G*T questions

Session 3:
-Mathematical ability testing
- Test taking strategies
-Identification of key skills
-Skill development and sample Mathematics questions

Session 4:
-Non-Verbal and Spatial Reasoning
-Test taking strategies
-Identification of key skills
-Skill development and sample questions

Session 5:
-Verbal and Language skills
-Test taking strategies
-Identification of key skills
- Skill development and sample reading test questions

Session 6:
-Scientific and Quantitative Reasoning
-Identification of key skills
-Skills development and sample ICAS questions

Session 7:
-Students will have the opportunity to work through sample scholarship tests and past competition papers with assistance provided as necessary.

Classes will be held in the Swan Area of close by. The costs involved will depend on the number of students. I have set costs for John and I also have room hire costs. I am hoping to get around 15-20 students and with the costs estimated at around $25 per session or $175 for the full program. You will be committed to paying for the program in full.
If you are seriously interested please pm
freya for more information.