Ripley Valley State Secondary College eNewsletter

Humanities and Languages

Time has flown fast in the first few weeks of 2023! It has been a smooth start to the year, with students across the year levels in the Humanities and Languages subjects highly engaged in their learning. Our Year 7 Geography students are settling in very nicely and looking at the ways we consume and conserve water. Our Years 8, 9 and 10 History students are immersing themselves into the Medieval World, the Industrial Revolution and WWII respectively. Our Legal Studies students in Year 10 are looking at the Foundations of Laws and the important role they play in our society, whole Year 10 Business students are looking at the impact Tourism has on the Economy of a country.

Our Year 11 students are also immersed in their various areas of study: Geography, Modern History, Legal Studies, Business, Tourism and Social and Community Studies. All of these students will have assessment soon, so please keep an eye on the assessment calendar for these dates.

These images are from a Year 8 classroom activity where students were asked to research the Medieval meaning of their (or another) surname. They then created their own Coat of Arms inspired by the real one, or based on the meaning of their names. Student responses were extremely creative and thoughtful. They took into consideration not only the literal meaning of their names, but also colours that either represented them as individuals or were also related to the meanings of their names.

Cecilia Hall

Head of Department - Humanities and Languages - Year 9E to 9G

chall213@eq.edu.au

Japanese

Irasshaimase!

Welcome back to all classes in Japanese and we extend a very warm welcome to Year 7 at Ripley Valley State Secondary College. The Year 7s’ Japanese first lesson was a bilingual Kahoot lesson about introductions with students in Japan via a Zoom lesson. Because it was real world and highly successful, the international classes have collaboratively created two more Kahoot lessons. The topics included hobbies, national sports colours for the two countries and their favourite activities. The online lessons with our sister school occur every Tuesday. The class of Year 8 have started their year dynamically in their verbal interactions with each other while learning new vocabulary for their unit around daily routines. This is a very positive start while students build rapport and confidence with each other. Eight new students joined Year 9 Japanese and are working hastily to learn the scripts of hiragana and katakana. Parents and families of the Japanese learners are invited to drop into the classroom for an ocha (green tea) on Saturday, 4^th March which is our school Community Day, to meet me and see the classroom. I am contactable at any time via email or phone.

Georgina Wellwood

Japanese Teacher

gawel0@eq.edu.au