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Katherine Houston
Head of Learning - Humanities
Geography provides students with opportunities to develop skills and knowledge to navigate the 21st century.
Students extend their understanding of the world through tasks including problem-solving, assessing sustainability, analysing change and examining interconnections. Students explore their local, national and global context and are encouraged to think about their place in the world. Geography continues to be a popular subject choice for VCE students at BSC.
Australian Geography Competition
Brunswick Secondary College Students blitzed the Australian Geography Competition again!
The Australian Geography Competition is a contest for Australian secondary school students, assessing their geographical knowledge and skills. The Competition aims to encourage student interest in geography and to reward student excellence.
A number of BSC students from Years 7 to 9 participated in this annual event - and they achieved excellent results. Of the 65 BSC students who took part, 16 achieved a Credit, 12 gained a Distinction and 13 achieved the highest score - High Distinction.
HIGH DISTINCTION - Australian Geography Competition
Congratulations to:
Sabine Barnett, Oscar Coopes, Julia de Vere, Nicholas Duncan, Alexandra Heathcote, Liam Knight, Alexander Robinson, Henning Kallies, Xavier Cohen, Paul Ting , Annabelle Harper , Marcus Donner, April Chen and Alexandra Gwynne
DISTINCTION - Australian Geography Competition
Congratulations to:
Ella Davis, Zac Freeman, Madeleine Horner, Hannah Johnson, Max Oehlmann, Jakob Schuster, Polly Stokes, Alexandra Sharples, Jessica Sless-McDermott, Isabella Varda, Odin Williams and Alia Wong.
CREDIT - Australian Geography Competition
Congratulations to:
Akib Ahmed, Oliver Darwin, Sammy Elgarhey, Emma Le Galante Le Cornu, Ethan Gallagher, Nabhan Islam, Elias Koch, Erdem Kurucu, Evie Lockhart, Zenry Matsuoka, Mia McDowall, Nguyet Nguyen, Miles Ploenges, Isabella Vesk, Georgie Walker and Meredith Walker.
A special mention goes to Year 8 student Declan Acton, whose competition results were in the top 1% of the country.
TeachLive Snorkelling Queensland’s Underwater Meadows
Humanities teacher, Maddison Panozzo, was selected as one of only six teachers to be involved in the Geography Teachers Association TeachLive program. Ms. Panozzo undertook a research trip in Moreton Bay in partnership with Earthwatch and Science Under Sail.
The trip involved collecting seagrass samples, analysing video data of the sea life and examining sediment samples. This data contributes to the Healthy Waterways program. Healthy Waterways is a not-for-profit NGO dedicated to ensuring that scientific knowledge and understanding is applied to the management of South East Queensland waterways.
Maddison created a blog to discuss her experiences (click HERE) with her Year 7 Humanities classes. She also video-called her class to demonstrate the seagrass collection process.
This trip was a valuable professional development program as Maddison developed her fieldwork skills and extended her content knowledge of the complex urban and natural environment of Brisbane and Moreton Bay. Furthermore, it provided opportunities to share ideas and work collaboratively to effectively integrate the fieldwork into her students’ learning.
VCE Excellence
The Geography Teachers’ Association in Victoria (GTAV) congratulated Brunswick Secondary College for its professionalism and role in leading the resurgence of Geography studies at VCE level.
in particular, BSC VCE Geography teacher, Liina Sepp, was commended on the excellent results acheived by our Year 12 students as well as her dedication to, and enthusiasm for, teaching Geography curriculum.