In this learning unit, entitled “Multi-Cultural Choral Connections”, advanced choral students will be connecting to five different countries and cultures through studying unique, contemporary choral compositions. Though just five perspectives, with these songs we will discover and intimately experience musical traditions and styles from cultures throughout the world. We will experience and notice similarities as well as the differences and come to have empathy and appropriate respect for society's cultural blend.

A sixth grade language arts unit on narrative writing, based on the book, Nothing Ever Happens on 90th Street by Roni Schotter.

Students will compare Ancient Greek government, society and the role of women with Australian Society today. Students are required to write an information report where they are offered the chance to extend themselves.

This learning element focuses on financial and business skills needed to run an enterprise.

Through this unit they will learn about goods and services in relation to needs and wants, rights and responsibilities, budgeting and advertising.

This content will provide students with the skills to create their own enterprise.  To create a successful enterprise students will utilise multimodal advertising to persuade consumers to purchase their good or service.

This learning element addresses the use of money in the younger years. It builds the concepts of earning, saving and spending money.  It also develops an understanding of the value of Australian notes and coins.  Students work in groups and are taught to value group members' contrubutions to achieving a group goal.

The learning element reinforces the connection between a known text (Jack and the Beanstalk) and real life situations; weaving its way gradually through the topics of bartering, the concepts of fair, unfair, needs and wants.

The unit culminates in a market day where the students are given a directive to purchase three things they need for an 'excursion' with money they have 'earnt in the class over the course of the unit.

Throughout the learning element students explore what money is and realise that it is more than just notes and coins.  Students understand that income is often limited and that individuals have to plan or budget to purchase things that they want and need. Using their understanding of money, students critique and assign value to artwork according to its quality and presentation. 

This unit aims to develop students ability to recognise cultural diversity in their personal lives and within the local and global community.  Students will explore how identity is shaped by culture and how people from other cultures have difference perspectives to their own.

The learning element examines different styles of poetry. Students will examine ballads, free verse and literary devices. Their final assessment piece will be a poetry anthology that combines everything they've learnt throughout the unit.

In this unit the students will look at traditional Japanese dress, fashion sub cultures, fabrics, traditional and modern dyeing techniques.  The students will identify the features of traditional Japanese costume and understand how it can be transformed into contemporary garment designs.  During the unit the students will learn traditional dyeing methods and will apply their understanding of traditional Japanese design through the construction of a Japanese inspired cushion.