Year 6 - 12 Class
Welcome to the week 9 newsletter, as always it’s been a busy start to the year with plenty of things keeping us all busy.
6-9 English
For the past few weeks we have been focusing on Dystopian Fiction. Dystopian fiction is a genre which involves looking at a society that has been overthrown or oppressed and considering the conventions used in telling these stories. We have been focusing on The Hunger Games which is an excellent example of this type of fiction. In our studies we have compare the book to the movie and considered how dystopian conventions have been used and why.
We are also focusing on persuasive writing this term, looking at what persuasive devices we use to convince people to agree with us, and looking at persuasion in advertising as well.
SACE English
With SACE we have begun strongly and are well on the way to completing the third assessment task. At the moment we are working on a comparative essay, comparing two movie versions of The Great Gatsby. Already completed are an essay on the literary devices used in Shakespeare’s Macbeth, and a media presentation looking at the relevance and use of Shakespeare in modern media.
6-9 HASS
We have completed our history unit on Ancient India, finishing with a study on religions and celebrations, and a close look at the Caste System. We will finish the term with Civics and Citizenship, and are currently revising students prior knowledge of the three levels of government in Australia, law making and the roles and responsibilities of the House of Representatives and the Senate.
6-9 Home Economics
In our theory lessons we covered kitchen and food safety in the beginning of the term. We are now looking at food labelling, what it all means, and how to tell if a food is healthy or not in relation to the healthy eating pyramid. We have also looked at all the different names for salt, fat and sugar on our food labels to help us make wise decisions.
Our practical lessons have been a lot of fun. So far we have made stuffed potatoes, savoury muffins, fruit scones and smoothies. Next we will introduce some flavours from other countries in readiness for our cultural evening in term 3.
6-9 Health and PE
During health lessons we have been figuring out who we are, and what made us that way with a unit on personal identity. This has included a lot of class discussion, mind maps, and I may just get them to write a poem next…but don’t tell them.
During PE lessons we have learned about scoring tennis and basic ground strokes and game play. The focus currently is sports day preparation, particularly high jump and the throwing events.
F-2 Health and PE
The foundation to year two class have been learning all about friendship, good listening skills, turn taking and sharing in health. Each lesson has been linked to a story book activity and craft which the students have all thoroughly enjoyed.
For PE we have moved onto gross motor skills and big movements with obstacle courses and have also started to practice some team games in readiness for sports day next term.