English

Students have been making great strides and enjoying themselves in the English classrooms across the college, especially since they have been able to engage in face to face discussions about different texts and the media for the first time in many years.

At our Senior Campus, the Year 12’s are onto their third SAC of the year as they analyse how the media shapes views of readers through language. This will be their final SAC of Unit 3 – not long to go now! Families will also notice that Year 11’s and Year 8’s are also looking at the same topic as we prepare students to be literate in understanding the media and preparing them for Year 12. At our Middle Years Campus, many of the students have been looking at issues as varied as the Ukraine war, Palestine-Israel conflict to the Johnny Depp and Amber Heard trial and the AFL’s new rules.

Excitingly, the Year 9 students are preparing the stories to be delivered orally in the style of “The Moth” podcast. If you get a chance, check out some of the stories there, there are some great ones!

Our Year 7 students have also settled in well to English after having written creatively to a text and also written their first full length persuasive essays. Families, keep a look out for their newly developed persuasive skills!