Hume School is working to introduce its students wholistically across the grades to the Applied Design, Skills and Technology (ADST) curriculum.

The ADST curriculum, provides a medium in which students can begin to grow their learning using design thinking principles. The approach helps them gain understanding of how to apply their skills to both finding challenges and solving them in creative ways, using appropriate technologies for the task at hand.

Grade 1-5 classes have started ADST once per week at Hume Elementary, taught by Mr. Nugent. ADST will include computational thinking, coding, empathetic design thinking and engineering challenges. These will be full of hands-on, engaging activities.

Students will gain a lot of useful skills (21st-century learning) to prepare them for a rapidly changing world. Projects will develop students' creative, critical and logical thinking skills along with communication, teamwork, problem solving and much more.  

ADST Schedule

• January to March: Coding (Animations and Robots)
• March to July: Engineering and Design Challenges