Semester 2 is already 2 weeks in and although I am currently on holidays, I am excited about what classes I have.
Keeping my Home Group and two English classes but gaining 2 new subjects!

Historical Studies focuses on Ancient History, Modern History, and Media Studies and the focus concept of the subject is Iconography of Power. This gives the students a taster of the three subjects in the hope that they will pick them in Year 11.

Society and Environment focuses on Geography, Tourism, and Society and Culture, again, giving students a taster of the three subjects and hoping that they'll pick them next year. As I have 2 classes, I'm running two courses; one looking at Environmental Conservation and Ecotourism and the other at Sustainable Development and Tourism.

There are classes looking at Legal Studies, People, Politics and Power and Business Innovations; however, I'm not teaching those classes!

All the classes are pilots for this year and we're hoping to see an increase in Humanities subject selection in Year 11 and thus, Year 12.
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I can't wait to see how they go this year and what students select for their 2026 subjects!

What started as two of us getting sick of being asked "is Hitler part of WW1?" and various other questions (and repeating the outline several times) turned into me creating subject posters for each of the subjects that we either teach, have the potential to teach, or currently teach.
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They took a while and did end up on the back burner while Stage 2 Media Studies was wrapped up but I am so glad that they are finally done!

** Post will be updated with the PDF's.

I think I said that my last lot of displays would be it ... well, they've been added to. I've added some key terms that are featured in both of the current units as well as printed and laminated an alternative title for "Natural Disasters" - "Hazards" instead.
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Now, do I **finally** think my class will remain until its time to take it down? Yeah, I think this is it!

Our final units for the year! Geographies of Human Wellbeing for Year 10 Geography and Natural Hazards for Stage 1 Geography. Both units I enjoy teaching quite a bit (although I do have to encourage the Year 11s to pick a natural hazard other than bushfires for their final assignment!) but next year, I think I'm going to re-order the Stage 1 Geography tasks or maybe re-do some parts of the course ... we will see!