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HUMANITIES & SOCIAL SCIENCES

2017 was another big year for the Humanities and Social Sciences department with lots of excursions, incursions, new classes and different opportunities for staff and students to participate in the world around us. This year we saw our new Certificate II in Conservation and Land Management take off with a number of Year 11 students choosing to continue on with their Bush Ranger courses. Students worked in the industry by heading up to the John Forrest National Park to conduct revegetation projects and pathway constructions. This class has seen Emmanuel and John Tonkin Secondary College join forces and develop a great partnership to share resources in this very practical class.

EXPERIENTIAL LEARNING Excursions included the annual Year 7 Perth Hills Visit, Year 9 Canberra Trip, Year 11 and 12 Geography field work and Year 11 and 12 Business ATAR students visiting businesses around Perth including CSBP, Ikea and Austal Ships. These were coupled with incursions from GreenGurus, business entrepreneurs and local politicians.

Giving the students exposure to different experiences and an insight into possible careers in the future has been a focus of the incursions and excursions this year. Once again, the HaSS Department ran the annual ANZAC Day service.

Mr Ryan and the Year Nine students had the hard task of organising a service for the first day back in Term Two. They did an outstanding job with the liturgy focusing on Indigenous Service throughout the major conflicts. Our guest speaker was the President of the Cockburn Returned Soldiers League, Mr Arthur Stanton who has been attending our services with his wife Nola, for many years.

He spoke of the service Indigenous Australians have provided for our nation and how they were not always shown the respect and gratitude they deserved.

The Year 9’s finished off their Term of working on World War One by creating dioramas and videos to illustrate the difficult conditions faced by Australians on ANZAC Cove and in Europe during the Great War.

Emmanuel competed in the Mock Trials competition with one team this year, mentored by Mr Ryan and Mr Rathmann. The students worked hard and received great feedback for a team with less experience than last year’s teams. Students had the opportunity to participate in the National Geography Competition and the Australian History Competition.

OUR OUTSTANDING RESULTS

NATIONAL GEOGRAPHY COMPETITION • Geordie Nilan – Distinction Year 12 Level • Eloise Moya – Distinction Year 12 Level

AUSTRALIAN HISTORY COMPETITION • Patrick Cielma – Distinction Year 7/ 8 Level • Aleksa Markovic – High Distinction Year 9/10 Level • Callum Mahony – Distinction at Year 9/10 Level

Emmanuel did exceptionally well for their first competition with the Year 7, 8 and 9 students smashing the National mean by as high as 30%.

Year 8 Medieval Feast Day and Shark Tank presentations ran again with great success. The Year 8 students had a contestant from the show Shark Tank talk to them about her experience on the show.

I would like to say a massive thank you to the hard working Humanities and Social Sciences staff who have put so much time and effort into their classes throughout the year. The HaSS department is blessed to have a passionate and dedicated staff. On behalf of the department, I wish everyone a safe and restful break.