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SailLAB is Australia’s first STEM based program for Australian primary and secondary schools based around the sport of sailing.

This program is made BY teachers FOR teachers and offers FREE online resources and a practical day (sailing experience) for schools involved.

Our pilot program was trialled with 9 local WA schools in 2024 and 2025. Here’s what some of the teachers had to say!

See what the teachers think:

"We are 2 weeks into the SailLAB course now and it has been incredibly well received! This particular class have low motivation and behavioural difficulties across all their other classes, they also had no prior interest in sailing but they have been loving the lessons so far.

Well done on creating such a great concept and course I will be trying to promote and recommend the program across other schools." -

Scott Chrystal, Coordinator of Marine Sciences, Christ Church Grammer School

"We will be doing the SailLAB program next year. We’re really looking forward to it. Our students talk about it a lot amongst all the other cohorts at school and it’s something that our students are looking forward to as they head into their senior years in primary school.” -

Krystal, Student Development Coordinator K-6, Foundation Christian College

"All of the resources are amazing. The work that SailLAB has put in is just fantastic. It’s really easy to follow, you can cut modules in and cut modules out, depending on the type of students that you have. Whenever we need some help, SailLAB is right there to help us.” -

Catherine, Head of Humanities and Languages, Mandurah Baptist College

“I knew nothing about sailing coming in to teaching sailing. The resources are so thorough, so well thought out and there’s so much detail in there. I’ve had to do no extra research myself or extra work to prepare. It’s all in there. It’s been amazing.” -

Clare, Science Teacher, Mandurah Baptist College

I was really excited to use this program with my class as they really like hands on activities and it gave them the ability to learn content but then put that into real life practices where they were able to have hands on lessons working with other students in the class and they really enjoyed that hands on collaborative work.” -

Remi, Year 5 Teacher, Mandurah Catholic College

“I’d definitely recommend other teachers get in touch with the SailLAB team. It was a great experience, lots of fun and a deep learning experience for everyone. We would definitely do it (SailLAB) again.” -

Sarah, Year 5 Teacher, Mandurah Catholic College

"Having it relevant to sailing, as a sport, really helps to engage students and to see the real- life application. It’s always amazing to have something to link in to and then being able to do the practical side as well, particularly for students who are not particularly sport based.” -

Clare, Science Teacher, Mandurah Baptist College

"Students sometimes can be disengaged and not excited (to learn) especially for maths, but it was really easy to integrate because it was so hands on and engaging for the students. The resources were really easy to pick up and implement in the classroom. It was fantastic.” -

Sarah, Year 5 Teacher, Mandurah Catholic College

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