Humanities and Languages
Welcome to Term 2! Everyone has certainly hit the ground running and Term 2 is already shaping up to be very exciting and busy! Humanities students have already begun working toward either maintaining their excellent Term 1 results, or pushing further to improve on their work.
Year 7's are now moving into the subject of History, with a focus on the Pharaohs and the daily lives of ordinary people living Ancient Egypt.
Year 8's have swapped over to Geography and are looking at Landforms and Landscapes, with a deep focus on the formation of Mountains.
With ANZAC Day quickly approaching, it is extremely relevant that our Year 9 students are moving into the topic of the First World War. They will be looking at the involvement of Australia in the conflict, both on the battlefield and the home front, with a particular focus on the human aspect of the conflict. They will be engaging with personal stories of the people involved.
The Senior Humanities students are beginning the second topic in their respective classes this term, and are also working toward solidifying their learning.
We have some exciting things happening this Term, so watch this space!
Cecilia Hall
Head of Department - Humanities and Languages - Year 9E to 9G
Japanese
Minasan, yoku dekimashita!
For the second time, all students at Ripley were invited to enter the Education Perfect Languages Championship from the 7th to the 14th March. Similar to last year, points were earned for all the correct answers in any language.
Students accumulated 46091 points this year and achieved 15 more awards than last year. For this competition, Ripley Valley State Secondary College was ranked in the top 30 out of 434 schools in Queensland. This is a terrific effort for all who participated as most of the work was voluntarily completed out of classroom hours. These results as a school are outstanding!
Congratulations to the competitors who received 7 Credits, 6 Bronzes, and 2 Silvers. Additionally, our top scorers who earnt an Emerald Award: Ella Bull (Year 8), Clare Joseph and Athena Leati (Year 7). The 18 students who participated will be presented with their certificates during Junior Assembly later this Term.
A special thank you goes out to Lorelei Anderson (Year 9) who has shared her fine skills with origami while she coached the Year 7's. Lorelei did mention that the Year 7's were very good at origami!
Year 9 have been practising their mnemonics for learning new kanji. The students have learnt that furigana such as あめis the hiragana translation of the kanji 雨 meaning ‘rain’.
We hope that everyone had a wonderful yasumi !
Georgina Wellwood
Japanese Teacher