Humanities News
Over the first few weeks of term, some of our Senior Humanities classes have been lucky enough to get out of the classroom and experience their subjects in-field.
11 Ancient History
Sam Schmidhauser
On Monday 1 March, twelve lucky boys from the Year 11 Ancient History class travelled to the Abbey Museum of Art and Archaeology in Caboolture. There they would spend most of the day tirelessly digging up Roman artefacts with plenty of care - and with minimal complaints from the boys. In the end, it was a solid day of digging that enabled the boys to develop a greater understanding of archaeological practices as part of their Unit 1 studies.
12 Ancient History
James Grimson
The Ancient History excursion sent us to the Abbey Museum of Art and Archaeology in Caboolture.
This visit allowed us to further understand what it was like to live in medieval times. We looked through their museum, saw some stained glass from the 14th century and then some of us tried on knight's armour and used their weaponry. This included each of us holding replicas of shields, swords and even getting to shoot a bow and arrow.
10 Geography
James Beling
On Wednesday 10 February, the Year 10 Geography class had the opportunity to visit the Sandgate Foreshore to investigate the environmental challenges in the local area and identify what major impacts climate change and sea-level rise would have on the neighbourhood. The class conducted in-depth studies of the Foreshore and completed a number of primary data collection methods including measuring land heights using a dumpy level, field sketches and land use surveys. With the data collected in the field the students will create a field report to suggest ways to improve the sustainability of the area and ways to mitigate the effects of sea-level rise in the future. The boys learnt a lot about life as a Geographer and even had a tasty lunch of fish and chips on the foreshore.
12 Geography
William Walker
In Week 3, the Year 12 Geography class was uprooted for two days and moved to Numinbah Valley. The Numinbah Valley, south-east from the Brisbane CBD, is a part of the greater Gold Coast Hinterlands and is home to the Hinze Dam. Over two days, we collected several different types of data to assist in our investigation of the nature and effect invasive species has on a particular region; specifically, we looked at the detrimental effects Lantana has had on the surrounding area. To do this we had to trek into the forest and, for one of our more remote locations, we had to canoe there and back. We are now visually representing the data we collected – using Excel, Google Earth and Queensland Globe – to ultimately suggest proposals for Lantana in the region.
