Year 7 Living in Asia Unit

Year 7B and 7D have recently completed their "Living in Asia"  guided inquiry learning project.This collaborative unit between Rupert,Lucas and myself required students to

• formulate their own questions
• use Inspiration to make and organise notes
• generate a bibliography
•  complete a PMI chart
• create a video using MovieMaker Live

After the completion of these tasks,students were able to share their learning and peer assess other students work via the Discussion Board platform on their Geography Virtual Classroom space.There were lots of skills to be learnt and students were very proud of their achievements.Check out the video task below.

Readers' Cup

To help us mark the 2012 National Year of Reading, the ISC put forward a proposal to run a Readers Cup as part of our House Cultural Festival this year. We were delighted when this proposal was accepted and we were happy to trial it for our Year 7's and 8's.The Readers Cup is a competition that promotes  and recognises the importance of reading and seemed to fit nicely into our Cultural Festival.Each House had a team of four students who read four novels and on the day showcased their reading,teamwork and creativity through their participation in a Quiz and presentation of a multimedia response to one of the novels read.
Leading up to the event, I must admit I was getting somewhat concerned.Usually we would have a tight rein on the organisation of an event like this, but  as we had handed it over to the House Cultural Captains it was a matter of "let's see what happens".My sleepless night was not necessary as the event was a great success and all involved had lots of fun.We were extremely impressed with the participants efforts and loved their multimedia responses.It was also great to have boys as well as girls competing.Well done to the winning House,Cranswick Dargo and Emily Harrison,Annabelle Lamb,Felicity Ried and Ally Hardy.

Click on arrows below to see the Readers' Cup video and  creative responses

Don't Call Me Ishmael on Prezi

Year 8 Book in a Bag Project

This term all year 8 students have now completed the unit,"Book in a Bag"Once again this unit has been extremely popular with our Year 8 English students.Year 8 English teachers,Joy and myself have also been most impressed with the overall quality of their presentations this year.Our students  have very much enjoyed the "hands on" nature of this project and have put alot of thought into their five chosen items that represented their story.Bags created are currently on dispaly in the ISC.Watch the Animoto video below to see a sample of student's work.



Book in A Bag 2012 by Marianne Lee is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.

Barry Heard Visit

Although not represented in the photo above,Year 10 students were priveleged to hear Barry Heard speak at our school on the 28th May.Barry is a Vietnam veteran and author of several books and participant of numerous awards."Well Done Those Men",his personal and harrowing  account of the Vietnam War and its aftermath, represents Victoria in the 2012 National Year of Reading.Barry has also just signed a film contract for this book and I look forward with interest to see how his story is protrayed on the big screen.
You could have heard a pin drop in the Lecture Theatre when Barry was speaking.Our students were moved by his presentation and I'm sure he will have a lasting impression on all those who attended.