Year 7 kicks off the new semester with the Age of Discovery, a Main Lesson focused on some of the early explorers. Students will engage with a number of map-making tasks; looking at some Medieval maps and seeing how they change over time, eventually culminating in a...
How does an artist work? Human creativity is at the heart of our development as a species. Animals can be creative too and there have been fascinating research studies on primates, sea mammals, birds, and even insects. These animals have demonstrated the ability to...
Year 7 have wrapped up their Arthurian Literature Main Lesson, exploring the idea of Medieval Chivalry and what the Holy Grail might represent. They have now launched straight into preparations for their play ‘Eleanor the Queen’. Set in the 12th Century it follows the...
We met up with the year 10’s at Darwin’s light plane airport where they bombarded me with stories of Wadeye, the connections they had made, and the experiences they had enjoyed (or not). Quickly the excitement died down to a realization that “you had to be there” and...
The Journey So Far … On 26 April we set out for our 8-week cultural exchange. We arrived in Darwin in the wee hours of the morning and were surprised by the temperature and humidity even in the middle of the night. In the morning, we ate out for breaky and went...
