Learning and Teaching

Inquiry: Rights and Responsibilities

This term in Inquiry students will be focussing on the big concept of Rights and Responsibilities. 

Each learning community will be inquiring into a different big question:

Prep - 2: How can we respect the rights and responsibilities of others?

Years 3 - 6: How can we be people of justice and service?

The big concept of Rights and Responsibilities will incorporate the Victorian Curriculum areas of the Humanities including Civics and Citizenship and History.

The Civics and Citizenship curriculum supports students to explore and develop their understanding and viewpoints about:

• civic identity
• roles in the community
• the rights and responsibilities of citizens
• developing their connections to the school and community
• values that underpin democratic communities such as freedom, equality, responsibility, accountability, respect, tolerance and inclusion
• skills and knowledge in making judgments, forming conclusions and making plans for action
• their sense of school, community and civic engagement and participation.

In the History curriculum, students have the opportunity to develop historical understanding through the application of the following historical concepts and skills:

• sequencing chronology
• using historical sources as evidence
• identifying continuity and change
• analysing causes and effect,  and
• determining historical significance.

This provides a framework for students to develop their knowledge, skills and understanding (KNOW, DO, BE) as they examine the complex processes that have shaped the modern world and investigate responses to different challenges.

Suzanne Deefholts

Learning and Teaching Leader