Hello Damascus Community.

Wow! What a term and what a semester is has been for the Humanities Learning Area. Our senior students will have completed Unit 1 and Unit 3 coursework. In this last week of term they should all have been introduced to their Unit 2 and Unit 4 courses of study. A big thank you to Hannah Muirhead who continues to offer after school Tutorials for her Legal Studies class. Jen Casey will also be running a revision Lecture Thursday afternoon (22^nd) for History. Finally, all Year 12 students will visit Fed Uni this Wednesday thanks to our Careers team – I know I am looking forward to this with my Geography class.

Our students Year 10 students are in the last week of compulsory History. Next term they will enter their elective classes. Some will continue with History, exploring civil rights and the 60’ and 70’s. Others will elect, Legal Studies, Business Management or Geography. Each with some exciting options to follow up.

Year 9 have spent the term investigating World War 1. I know some students have delved into family histories to see if their Great-Grand Parents were involved in any way shape or form. Not to long ago I would have said investigate your great grand fathers but we now realise that the woman of our family contributed in many ways as well, from nursing through to holding the Home Front down.

Year 8 are continuing with their investigations into the Middle Ages and the Renaissance Times. I wonder how many Leonardo da Vinci’s we have among us? Some classes will spend the next 3 weeks completing the History Challenge. The theme is “Change and Continuity”. This allows our students to investigate, research and present on events, fashion, medicine, politics, social movements and any other historical issue. Once again thanks to our Year 8 teachers undertaking this.

Year 7 will have completed some investigations into our First Nations people from ancient times. In this area students will have highlighted the difference between Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander customs and European customs. In term 3 they will investigate one of Rome, Egypt or Greece.

As always there have been a number of excursion and different types of work being presented. Many of these have been pictured here during this term and displayed in the Library.

Well done students and good luck for the second semester.

Thanks, and; “remember history, otherwise you are doomed to repeat it”.