Given the current Stage 4 restrictions, the Humanities faculty put together a remote Humanities Week website to celebrate the week, which ran 24-28 August. It was like a one-stop shop for a variety of activities, quizzes and tasks for all students, from Year 7s through to senior students. We had creative activities like developing your own personality map, watching videos about your favourite Humanities topic and even establishing and evaluating your own ecological footprint.
The aim of the website was to allow students to gain a greater understanding and awareness of the Humanities subjects available, particularly for senior students, as well as the skills required for possible subject selection in the future. Each day the website was designed to reflect a year level where students could access videos activities or quizzes they found interesting. Students could then submit their completed task with a judging panel allocating the prizes. Some of their work is pictured in the gallery below.
I thank everyone for submitting their task. I was overwhelmed by the volume and quality of the submissions.
Below Humanities prefect Casey Parker-Turner writes about Humanities Week:
Humanities Week in 2020 involved a competition in which students were asked to watch videos and complete activities for their year level. Students in Years 7, 8, 9 and 10 had a variety of videos and activities to do, all of which came from three different areas — Geography, History and Civics and Citizenship, while the Years 11 and 12 students had videos and activities from Economics and Business, Legal and Accounting, Geography and History. Up for grabs were gift cards from $10 (for third) to $50 (first). Due to the circumstances this year, Humanities Week took a different approach and one student highlighted that “online activities are just one of the ways that is allowing material and the concept of Humanities to become more accessible to more students”.
