Year 8
Year 8 sees students consolidating their skill base and knowledge in preparation for the senior years curriculum. While maintaining the integrated approach of the Year 7, Year 8 students engage in more concentrated collaborative work with a greater degree of challenge incorporated into their project work.
Beginning with medieval studies, students undertake a set of rotational activities exploring a wide range of aspects of medieval Europe. The unit culminates in a Medieval Day with incursion presenters showing students aspects of medieval life with a range of interactive presentations.
Students explore their inner capitalist with an economics unit that asks them to imagine themselves as business entrepreneurs. In small groups, students form a business, develop a product or service and build a business plan. At the end of the unit, students present to our own ‘Dragon’s Den’ to see who has produced the most viable business idea.
Preserving Our World is the theme of the Term 3 unit and sustainability is the focus. Students look at a series of natural and man-made disasters, searching for ’cause and effect’ relationships. Understanding the natural world and the effects humans have upon it is vital to the generation that will have to manage climate change in ways we have yet to imagine. Students will enter the Federal Governments “Shout for Climate Change” video competition.
Examination of our region is important to those generations who will be actively engaged with regional partners in business and other exchange. In Term 4 students take a close look at South East Asia and the South Pacific and examine the possibilities for their future role in the region.
