HUMANITIES

What a year it has been in Humanities!!

I have been honoured this year to get to know every staff member within the faculty and to really learn what it is that makes us all come to McKinnon every day: unbelievable passion, a lifelong love of learning and, above all else, care and commitment to the success of their students and also of their colleagues. 

The teachers within the humanities department have all definitely earned the end of year break this year! I am incredibly proud of the efforts of all our 28 different subject team, comprising 45 teachers across the year. We had almost every subject go off on at least one excursion, field trip or camp - a feat that requires a ton of organisation and dedication. 

This year, our students have gone places such as Queen Victoria Market, South Melbourne Market, local monuments and memorials, Mock Court, Indigenous sites in Melbourne City, Fieldwork around Birrarung Marr, Pharaoh @NGV, The Shrine of Remembrance, Mornington Peninsula, Phillip Island, Yarra Valley, Price Waterhouse Coopers, Dandenong Magistrates Court, The Supreme Court of Victoria, Yakult, Bentleigh shops and the Melbourne Holocaust Museum.

We have held amazing activities in house too with Medieval Day, Geography Day, Year 7 History Museum Day, Model UN and Economics Club. Humanities students have spoken eloquently in our ANZAC and Remembrance Day ceremonies. 

Our students are very lucky to teachers who are committed to showing them the real world and to extend their learning beyond the classroom. The humanities faculty staff have inspired, challenged and piqued the curiosity of our students about the human world. Whether or not each and every student continues with formal humanities studies into VCE, university and beyond, each student is truly a better person for having reflected about our kind.

Onwards and upwards in 2025!  

Joshua Cukierman

KLA Manager - Humanities