This unit will explore some major questions about Poetry; What do poems tell us, what emotions do poets write about, how do we experience poetry & what makes a piece of writing a poem?

This five week unit aims to develop an informed and practical understanding of the problems of waste in both the local community and the wider world.  Students will be encouraged to research and adopt positive actions to reduce, reuse and recycle waste, culminating in the implementation of school wide waste recycling program. Narrative and information texts will be used as vehicles to introduce and explore the theme.

Five week unit of work that concentrates on reduce, reuse, recycle. The unit is based around implementing a recycling program in a school environment. The learning element will introduce and analyse the concept of waste management particulary focusing on reducing waste through recycling. Narrative texts will be used as a vehicle to explore the theme

This learning element focuses on a multimodal text which combines a narrative text and an information text. Students read and respond to the text, drawing out similarities and differences, and analyse the visual and linguistic grammar of the text. Students then create their own multimodal texts.

This unit has been developed to enhance leadership skills of students incorporating values for Australian schools. 

This learning element looks at discrimination in society. It links school yard bullying to discrimination in society.

Students will explore the features of 3D shapes.  They will investigate the relationship between Surface Area (SA) and Volume (V).

They will theorise on their own formula for finding the SA and V of different prisms.

They will create 3D sculptures and critically analyse each others work.

They will investigate the relationship between the weight of water and the space it takes up and the metric measuring system.

Students explore properties of shapes inclucing angles, right angles, parrallel lines, equal, classifying shapes and exploring similarities and differences between shapes.

This course focuses on developing many of the skills necessary for both home entertainment and work in the hospitality industry.  It is centred on specific design breifs and students comple design folios as a record of their planning, investigation and evaluation activities.  Students will develop their food preparation and presentation skills using a wide variety of equipment and specific industry techniques.  Students will work in groups as a focus, sharing their designs with others.  they will also design a cafe in which they will plan, prepare and serve a variety of dishes for paying customers.