HSIE   

Over the past term, students across HSIE have been delving into their specific focus areas ranging from Year 8 with unpacking the dangerousness of natural hazards, Year 10 Commerce exploring the modes of designing and developing a profitable business with entrepreneurial skills, and Year 12 Legal Studies developing a greater understanding of the criminal justice system by critically assessing a real criminal case as part of their second assessment task.

A special mention to our Year 7 cohort who have been Investigating what it means to be a historian and an archaeologist! Digging through the cookie crumbs, 7A experienced this first hand by searching for, and carefully removing the chocolate chips! For an extra treat, they were able to eat it too! Check out those focused faces. Great job guys!

We are extremely proud of our Junior students completing their first Assessment Task submissions, and our Year 12 students who are now halfway through their HSC in their retrospective subjects.

On Friday 1st of March 2024, Year 12 Geography students answered the call to look after their environment. Our class spends a lot of time developing an understanding about environmental systems and the vulnerability of ecosystems, and as often as we can we step outside of the classroom and make that learning come true to life. We had a simple aim of taking rubbish out of the Oxley Rivulet across the road from our school, and estimated that we would collect one full rubbish bag of litter from the rivulet. 

In total, we filled SIX 40L bin bags, which was both impressive and alarming at the amount of trash that ends up in our fragile waterways.

With the success of what our class of 16 students was able to accomplish in only around 45 minutes, we can only imagine what hundreds of students can achieve around the local area. We’re hoping that next year we can inspire more students and classrooms to engage in a similar clean-up activity with a long term goal of teaching our peers and the greater community about where their recycling and trash truly belong - in the correctly labeled bins, and not in local watercourses.

As their teacher, I am truly proud of them.

Mr L DeBono

Classroom Teacher