Secondary
English teachers are always Write!
The students of Boorowa Central School have been off to a flying start in their English classes in Term One of 2024. With one new face in Mr. Flyght and a familiar-but-new-again face in Mrs. Dreverman the English/Drama curriculum has hit the ground running. Building on the programs kicked-off by Mrs. Butler who is currently away on maternity leave the English faculty is one of few at Boorowa Central lucky enough to have more than one set of hands steadying the tiller and for this the English faculty is expecting high standards of work in 2024.
Stage 4 have started off the year with everyone’s favourite unit; Poetry! Year 7 have entered into the halls of Big School with an introduction to poetry that sees them building on the fine work of our Primary school teachers to score similes like tries and put on their metaphor hats to play in the big leagues of verse. Year 8 are building on their poetry lessons from last year and stretching their legs as they compose more unique forms of poetry and ask the question ‘what makes a poem a poem?”
Stage 5 have hit-the-ground-reading with a novel study in the topic of Coming of Age, a unit that thwarts the age-old students’ refrain of “how does this matter to my life?” Classes have looked at a range of texts breaking down the genre and have read NSW Premier’s Book of the Year 2000 The Binna Binna Man. Classes have been working on finding and analysing techniques in preparation for their first assessment of 2024; an essay preparing year 10 for the high-level writing of the HSC years and inducting year 9 into the heady but rewarding task of analysing themes, techniques and the ever-necessary “quotation”.
Stage 6 is churning out the paragraphs in a blazing start to 2024. Year 11 have also been hard at work preparing their responses for their first Preliminary HSC task, rising to the new challenges that will define their final two years at school. English Studies students have recently returned from their tour of the Young TAFE working on a portfolio of workplace specific language and assessing WHS violations in example scenarios while English Standard are honing their minds with classic texts to improve their writing with necessary skills for the HSC which looms in the increasingly less-distant future. Year 12 have also had pen-in-hand (or fingers on keys as is the preference today) charging through their own creative writing in The Craft of Writing as the HSC looms ever closer as we approach the halfway mark for their HSC year.
We’re only just getting started this year, keep your eye on this space as we move forward with bigger and better writing and speaking projects in 2024!
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Year 8 PDHPE
Year 8 have been focussing on invasion games in their practical lessons for PDHPE. An invasion game involves invading an opponents territory to score a point or goal. Year 8 played Soccer and European Handball. To learn European Handball skills, students worked through three stations, involving a crazy catch net, passing to a team member and dribbling the ball through a corridor of cones.
Year 8
As part of their Year Advisor lessons this term, students have been doing team building activities to foster connectedness and develop skills to work together.
Today in their lesson Year 8 played games of Pictionary, developing their non verbal communication skills and forming connections with their peers in a fun environment. Students thoroughly enjoyed drawing pictures that are related to their upcoming excursion to Canberra next week. Some future Picassos in the making!
Miss Jess Bromfield Year Advisor
Year 8 Technology Mandatory
Year 8 continue their food journey. Producing a French toast, rainbow rice paper rolls and vegetarian crepes. Each student continues to develop their food preparation skills and ability to effectively read a recipe.
Year 9 Year Advisors Lesson
Students in year 9 have continued to work on their group work and team building in the fortnightly year advisors period. This fortnight students were set two challenges, the hands free cup stack and the marshmallow tower. All students had to completed the challenge first with out verbal communication and with verbal communication. Everyone embraced this challenge and have continued to work very well with a variety of different group members.
Keep up the excellent effort year 9
Mrs Golden
