WW1 & Old Schoolhouse & Reporting!

FREE EVENT
Western Australians in World War One

Launch of teaching and learning resources for primary and secondary teachers to commemorate:

• the training camp at Blackboy Hill,
• the first transport ships that sailed from Fremantle and the individuals aboard,
• the 11th Battalion and the 8th Field Battery and their experience at Gallipoli.

When?

• 4th of September 2014

Where? 

• Perth Modern School

Time?

• 4:00 pm Afternoon Tea
• 4:30 - 5:00 pm Launch
• 5:00 - 5:45 pm Workshops

Teaching and learning resources link to the Year 3,6 and 9 Australian Curriculum: History and can be adapted to all year groups.

Information on the commemoration events at Blackboy Hill Memorial site, re-enactment of the troops journey to Fremantle and events in Fremantle will be available.

RSVP for catering purposes by the 1st of September: info@htawa.org.au 

For a flyer, go to the Connect Community: Australian Curriculum Humanities and Social Sciences Primary (K-7) Network and go to the Library and search for Professional Learning and then HTAWA file.

THANK YOU MT HAWTHORN PS!

Thank you to Mt Hawthorn for having one of their teachers attend the first Professional Learning to use the Old Schoolhouse. We look forward to that teacher bringing lots of student through in the near future. If you could not attend the first workshop, watch this space and Connect and Twitter and Facebook for the next PL date in Term 4. Come along and learn how to use the Old Schoolhouse for your next excursion! CONGRATULATIONS Kaye Ward for being the First Teacher to be allowed to bring their class through their Old Schoolhouse! We look forward to seeing you soon!

REPORTING in HASS 2015 from SCSA

There has been a change in when schools are required to report in History. This change is due to not all of the Humanities and Social Science components have been develop as yet. Please go to http://k10outline.scsa.wa.edu.au/Reporting_policy/Requirements  to read about the reporting requirements for HASS. Please read the information under the heading Reporting learning area achievement using the Australian Curriculum.

That's all for now!

Mr Stephen Powell

TDS Coordinator