YEAR 7 GEOGRAPHY

Upcoming dates

Year 7 as part of their learning for landscapes and landforms will have a day of fieldwork at Kiama. We will explore and learn about the different coastal landforms at the blowhole, surf beach and the rock formations. Kiama's Blowhole is the largest in the world, the 2.5m opening in the rock face has had its plumes of water recorded at heights of over 30 metres.

Due to the size of the year group, classes will attend the excursion over two days Monday Nov 27th classes- H, M, J and Tuesday Nov 28th classes K, L, I, N

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YEAR 8 HISTORY

Ms Arenas 8HGJ Long Lunch

To celebrate the extraordinary artefacts year 8 students created from their research on mediaeval history, the class had a long lunch. Students bought in food they cooked from mediaeval recipes. Some of the artefacts included clothes, musical instruments, implements such as weapons or spoons, farming equipment and more. 

Student comments from 8HGJ

When we had a mediaeval feast in class. Everyone made something and it was just a nice, chill time. (Frankie O'Neill)

The bread I baked for our end of term feast was so dry and dense that when Hunter ate two slices of it he nearly perished (Ethan Luke)

The mediaeval assessment task was a great learning experience because we were able to get creative and make something that we found interesting for the assessment. (Gianna Gonzaga)

My favourite learning task was our history assessment about mediaeval Europe and making a sword (Julian Knott)

YEAR 10 COMMERCE

Last term students looked at topics related to Towards Independence, such as budgeting, renting, purchasing a car, cooking on a budget. Students were highly engaged and produced some outstanding evidence of learning which went towards a portfolio collection.

Unit reflections

It was a really good unit and I learnt a lot, possibly the best unit that we’ve ever done in Commerce. A fun activity was finding a place to rent that meets a specific criteria for the scenario family. (Kate McIIvaney)

I liked the overall unit. The only thing I did not enjoy was the debating activity and I believe it was more the being forced into a team rather than the activity itself. I really enjoyed the radio activity (giving advice to young people) as it was a lot more self-directed and you could work with the people you worked well with. (Deeya Shrestha)

My brochure was to the point and precise, and the car I found is an Australian favourite that is reliable and I made a very nutritious meal and was relatively cheap considering inflation at the moment. (Mitchell Exton)

Nutritious budget meals cooked by students included:

Homemade Pizza (Hugo), Salmon,broccolini and rice (Joaquin), Thai Chicken Curry (Max), Pasta Bake (Steffi) and Bruschetta (Megan)

YEAR 11 ABORIGINAL STUDIES

Students have started their major projects- this is 40% of the Aboriginal Studies course for the HSC, students pick a topic of interest and gather primary and secondary data. Aboriginal Community members are consulted throughout the process of the major project. Any community members who wish to discuss the projects listed below or would like to be part of the consultation process are invited to contact Ms Sarah Blades (HSIE coordinator) or Gooroon.  The topics we have this year for our major project are

• Discovering Aboriginal knowledge of our waterways (focus on the Shoalhaven and Hawkesbury (Deerubbin) Rivers

• The importance of Aboriginal cultural healing programs

• The impact of the revitalisation of language in the community

• How Aboriginal foods are making their way into our kitchens

• The importance of Aboriginal sporting role models 
• How Aboriginal servicemen are remembered

On Thursday the 2nd November, the class participated in a full day zoom workshop facilitated by The University of Sydney , Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASS). This day included a session by the Kinchela Boys Home. “Kinchela Aboriginal Boys Training Home was a ‘home’ run by the NSW Government for almost 50 years from 1924 – 1970 to house Aboriginal boys forcibly removed from their families. It's a place of deep importance for survivors, their families and communities.” ((Kinchelaboyshome.org.au, 2023)

Mrs Sarah Blades

HSIE Coordinator