The High Court - AT
The task occurred at the end of year as part of a whole-school forum on Australian identity and civic responsibility. In age- or stage-equivalent groups, students participated in a series of structured, teacher-moderated discussions of Australia’s democratic …
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Folk music: North American - AT
Students studied American folk music and the origins of blues in a 10-week unit that differentiated for a range of abilities in class. In particular, they studied traditional North American blues and gospel music, focusing on This Train is Bound for Glory …
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Ensemble: Blueback fire - AT
Students studied the novel Blueback by Tim Winton and completed this dance task as part of an integrated unit that involved English and The Arts. The task required students to work in small ensemble groups to choreograph a dance sequence as an epilogue, …
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Demonstration and verbal response: Net games – ABOVE
Over eight lessons, students were engaged in a net games unit of work. The focus was on manipulating and controlling a ball/object using another piece of equipment. Modified tennis equipment (low/short nets, short-handled rackets), lowered badminton nets …
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Composition: Walking to School - ABOVE
Students sang a known nursery rhyme, Three Blind Mice in unison. They then collaboratively composed a song using the first three notes of Three Blind Mice, experimenting with inverting the melody and adding other notes by step. Students devised their …
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Class performance: Jimmie Jean and the Turtles - ABOVE
Students studied the Great Barrier Reef in an integrated unit that involved English, Science and The Arts. They developed their understanding of sustainability and conservation in relation to the reef by artistically exploring the narrative of the stimulus …
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Class performance: Jimmie Jean and the Turtles - AT
Students studied the Great Barrier Reef in an integrated unit that involved English, Science and The Arts. They developed their understanding of sustainability and conservation in relation to the reef by artistically exploring the narrative of the stimulus …
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Readers theatre: Blueback – ABOVE
Students studied the novel Blueback by Tim Winton as part of an integrated unit that included English and playbuilding in Drama. They developed their own character in an imaginary town meeting in Longboat Bay, the novel’s setting. They used these characters …
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Readers theatre: Blueback - AT
Students studied the novel Blueback by Tim Winton as part of an integrated unit that included English and playbuilding in Drama. They developed their own character in an imaginary town meeting in Longboat Bay, the novel’s setting. They used these characters …
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Demonstration: Bush dance – ABOVE
Students participated in a unit of work that introduced them to the history of Australian bush dance. The class was taught Heel and Toe Polka, Strip the Willow and Waves of Bondi at the start of the unit. Students were asked to form groups and use the …
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Demonstration: Bush dance - AT
Students participated in a unit of work that introduced them to the history of Australian bush dance. The class was taught Heel and Toe Polka, Strip the Willow and Waves of Bondi at the start of the unit. Students were asked to form groups and use the …
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Scripted: Pyramus and Thisbe - ABOVE
Students were engaged in a unit of work on Elizabethan drama using Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream as the key text for a performance-based assessment. They studied style and the acting conventions of the play’s original context. They also learned …
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Scripted: Pyramus and Thisbe - AT
Students were engaged in a unit of work on Elizabethan drama using Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream as the key text for a performance-based assessment. They studied style and the acting conventions of the play’s original context. They also learned …
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Reflections on learning German – AT
Students explored language and identity as concepts, including looking at similarities and differences between the German and English alphabets, spelling, pronunciation, greetings and interactions. Students engaged in tasks to identify where German is …
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Role play - ein Dialog – AT
Students had learnt the language and features of introductions in German. In this task students were asked to work in pairs or a group to write, rehearse and perform a 1-minute dialogue, in which they include the following: Greetings Introductions Talking …
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Blog: Working safely - ABOVE
Students, with teacher assistance, have collected evidence of safe and skilful use of technologies in a range of design tasks, and recorded this in a blog.
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Blog: Working safely - AT
Students, with teacher assistance, have collected evidence of safe and skilful use of technologies in a range of design tasks, and recorded this in a blog.
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Blog: Working safely - BELOW
Students, with teacher assistance, have collected evidence of safe and skilful use of technologies in a range of design tasks, and recorded this in a blog.
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Korean syllable blocks – AT
Students participated in a range of activities to build an understanding of how the basic Korean syllable blocks are constructed; the difference between the syllable blocks depending on the shapes of the vowels; where accompanying consonants are located. …
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Thanking people – AT
Students had learnt about formal and informal ways of thanking people, both in spoken and written texts, in the plural, as well as in the polite form. Students discussed various situations for thanking others. This task had two parts: Students were …
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