What a fabulous term of learning within Social World.  Students have worked tirelessly to draft, edit, apply feedback and create quality repsonses that have analysed and evaluated characters and their values, attitudes and beliefs within numerous different text types.

Year 7s have engaged in a fun movie study unit that has seen them step into the shoes of a character to understand how their actions have impacted those around them. They have looked at character strengths, the mood meter and studied how movies are able to use language features to represent the values, attitudes and beliefs of their characters.  Students then demonstrated this understanding by writing in role as a character from their selected movie.

Year 8s have engaged in a novel study this term but have also looked at how language features and structures help to communicate the theme of identity to teen readers. They have learnt how to analyse dialogue and interpret what that shows the reader about characters and their values, attitudes and beliefs.

There have been many different experiences across the Arts components of Social World, including play studies, story boarding activities, choreography, drawing and painting to express a message and it has been great to see students engaging with all of these art forms.

With the recent explosion of Artifical Intelligence platforms, it is important to address the concept of plagarism within student's work.  I had an interesting lesson with a Year 8 class were we looked at an A.I response to their current assessment and how what is being generated by the A.I is not specific enough to demonstrate a pass result on our GTMJs.  It is important that students are using the time given to them in class to draft and edit their responses so that teachers can see their progress and provide ongoing feedback and support. 

I hope you all have a relaxing holiday after what has been a very busy semester.