Year 7 students from Kurri Kurri High School’s gifted and talented classes mentored year 5 and 6 students through the week-long project that will be unveiled today. 

Professionals from various industries, including building and promotions, volunteered their time to speak with students about how they tackled the real-world concept happening in their own backyard at Huntlee. 

Students learnt that each subject played a role in the process: mathematics for building structures, English for promoting the site, and human society and its environment for designing useable recreational areas. 

“It brings them together with collaborative learning, giving them a real-life project and a real world problem,” Kurri Kurri High School deputy principal Julie Glasson said. 

Two of the students involved, Noah Jeffreys and Logan Connolly, said the project investigated all areas from street names to functional recreation facilities. 

“It gives kids a chance to know what it’s like designing something,” Noah said. 

“We’re going to get trees and grow fruit that will generate funds for a fruit shop,” Logan said. 

Education Week runs until Friday, August 1.