The Humanities provide a framework for students to examine the complex processes that have shaped the modern world and to investigate responses to different challenges including people’s interconnections with the environment.

In Civics and Citizenship and Economics and Business, students explore the systems that shape society, with a specific focus on legal and economic systems. Students learn about Australia’s role in global systems, and are encouraged to appreciate democratic principles and to contribute as active, informed and responsible citizens. In History and Geography, students explore the processes that have shaped and which continue to shape different societies and cultures, to appreciate the common humanity shared across time and distance, and to evaluate the ways in which humans have faced and continue to face different challenges.

 

Year 7

Year 8

Year 9

Year 10

Term 1 Geography SPICESS.
Weather and its disasters
Geography
Land forms and Landscapes
Geography Biomes and Food Security History Chronology of significant events since 1750; Indigenous disadvantage,
The Holocaust, Australians in Asia

 

Term 2 Geography
Water in the World
Economics Resource allocation and making choices
Liveability and work

 

Economics and business
Costs and benefits
Civics and Citizenship Government Laws and Rights
Economics and business
Companies and the share market
Civics and citizenship
How government manages they economy,
History
Australia in WW2, political crises, popular culture; the environment movement; migration experiences
Term 3 History
Ancient civilisations: Australia’s Aborigines;
Ancient Greece
Civics and citizenship Democracy

 

History
Medieval Europe
History
Making the modern world: Ideas and technology, industrial revolution; the discovery era
Geography
Human interaction with the environment; Environmental change and Management
Term 4 History
Ancient Civilisations: China
History
Medieval Japan under the Shoguns; Renaissance Italy
History
Making the modern world: Global Conflict; Indigenous rights and freedoms

 

Economics and Business
Labour Markets and Business ideas
Share market game