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Chris Reimers
Head of Faculty
Society and Environment
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A timeline of events demonstrate the active learning
opportunities available to the students in both Upper and Lower school
SAE classes.
Visits by the Year 11s to the precincts of Parliament House and the
Constitutional Centre enabled them to see how our State is governed and
help understand the unfolding events associated with the State election.
For the first time all Year 9 students sat for the WAMSE test which
will provide feedback on achievements according to national benchmarks
A group of senior students had the opportunity to witness the workings
of Local Government when they were invited to sit in on a Joondalup
Council Meeting and were provided with the opportunity to ask questions
of the Councillors.
Year 12 Economics students heard first hand the current approach to
Reserve Bank Policy in a seminar held in Joondalup.
Geography students examined settlement patterns and urban processes
with an excursion into the Perth CBD and surrounds.
The Curriculum Council moderated both Year 12 Geography and Political
and Legal Studies and presented a very favourable report on teachers
Programming and Assessment.
The Hon Justice McKechnie, Chief Judge of the Supreme Court visited
the College to speak to both Year 10 and 11 students about Teenagers and
the Law and the issue of Human Rights.
Year 11 Students represented the College at the Constitutional
Convention and together with other schools examined the origins of
Australian Federalism
The Mundaring area was chosen as a location for young geographers to
examine physical characteristics of the Hills forests as well as looking
at the impact that humans have made on such environments.
On the cultural side emotions were aroused and knowledge gleaned from
a visit to the Holocaust Centre in Yokine, to complement the study of
Germany, especially during the Nazi era.
All in all a very busy and productive year!
Chris Reimers
Head of Faculty
Society and Environment
December 2008
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