Secondary Year 12

Year 12 Literacy & Numeracy Week

In Literacy, our Year 12 students have been busy building their debating skills in preparation for the Year 12 Charity Debate being held next week.  Students have been using their research skills to develop their written arguments on why their nominated charity should be the beneficiary of the current Year 12 fundraising campaigns.

In Numeracy, the students spent an afternoon participating in a range of ‘Gorilla Maths’ activities that included comparing their arm span, height and weight to that of a male silverback gorilla.  In an open-ended task, students had to find and measure as many different features as possible on a gorilla’s hand.  One student found more than 20 different things that could be measured!  Some students used counters to determine area while others used a ruler or string to accurately measure the perimeter of a life-sized gorilla hand.