Fox Blocks Engineering - STEM Classes for kids.
Term 1 2025 Classes Begin Monday February 3rd 2025 | ||
2025 Class Bookings
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Fox Blocks is Brisbane’s premier hands-on engineering and construction program for kids, combining innovation, education, and fun. Designed to foster a love of learning and develop skills in construction, engineering, science, math, and technology, Fox Blocks stands out as one of the city’s longest-running STEM-focused extracurricular activities. The Fox Blocks curriculum is a rich exploration of STEM concepts, offering far more than just one branch of learning. Kids can dive into physics by building a theme park, explore historical engineering by recreating wonders of the world, or develop coding skills by programming and powering a traffic light. Every activity is uniquely crafted to inspire curiosity and creativity. Our program integrates a wide array of materials to provide a comprehensive and engaging experience. Educational tools such as LEGO, Duplo, K’nex, Quadrilla, LittleBits, Fischertechnik, Snap Circuits, Goldieblox, and Magformers are combined with real world materials to support imaginative learning. Each term at Fox Blocks introduces a fresh theme, utilising different materials and resources to keep classes dynamic and exciting. This approach allows children to engage with diverse tools, fostering deeper understanding and skill development over time. Fox Blocks classes are tailored for children aged 3.5 years to Grade 7, with small group sizes of 8 to 10 students (depending on age) to ensure personalised attention. The full curriculum spans from early childhood to the end of primary school, enabling students to progress through the program without repeating a unit. This program equips kids with confidence and expertise, nurturing the problem solvers, designers, engineers, architects, artists, and inventors of tomorrow. Through hands-on activities, children develop essential skills such as problem-solving, planning, sorting, and inventing, all within an atmosphere of encouragement and fun. Join the journey with Fox Blocks and watch your child thrive in the world of STEM! |
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'The important thing is to not stop questioning. Curiosity has it's own reason for existing' Albert Einstein |
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What is a STEM program? STEM stands for for Science, Technology, Engineering & Maths, and a STEM program is a course designed for extending students in these areas. We have developed our Fox Blocks STEM curriculum to reflect our belief that a top quality STEM course covers topics right across the entire field. Our philosophy of STEM education is all about hands on learning, combining unplugged STEM with physical resources, and integrating technology in a way that is less screen based, and more real world building. We integrate concepts of coding, programming and robotics throughout our program and have fantastic resources to support these areas, however we also believe the 'T' (technology) component of STEM is only a part of the subject as a whole. Students from Grade 2 up will cover at least one robotics unit each year, with other units selected from the multitude of other science, maths, and engineering fields. We build bridges with lego, we integrate circuits with LittleBits, we construct class room sized roller coasters with K'Nex, we design and build engineering wonders such as a dam wall, a swing bridge, rockets, racing cars and skyscrapers. We have units that discover geology and palaeontology, space research, mining, and many more over the course of our 8 year program. The Fox Blocks curriculium is so much more than one single branch of the STEM tree. Whether it be learning about physics by building a theme park, discovering historical engineering with the wonders of the world, or coding an arduino powered traffic light, Fox Blocks is unique in every way. |
Photography / Social Media Policy Flying Fox Studios is a business working with children every day, and right from the start we have been committed to protecting the digital footprint of all our students. That's why you won't find any group photos of our classes shared online, unless children remain unidentified or a media release has been authorised. We want to assure you that enrolling your children in our classes means they won't be used for promotional purposes. Adults and carers are more than welcome to take photos of their own child participating in our classes. In our Fox Blocks STEM program a photo of each child is taken each week to add to their portfolio. These photos are for personal use only, not for any promotional purposes. |
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At Flying Fox Studios we offer a free trial lesson for all our term classes (Kindermusik, Art Classes, & Fox Blocks STEM)
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Think, explore, create, construct, imagine, design, test, evaluate. There’s nothing else quite like Fox Blocks! |