HASS Planning for Split Grades

At Sawyers Valley Primary School we have developed a tool to help us plan in HASS. We are a small school and have split grades throughout. In the past we developed a split grade tool that was used when teaching History. We have now applied the same model to the whole of the HASS curriculum. The focus must be on the HASS skills and we have noted that teachers need to consider the other knowledge and understandings (K&U) when planning in HASS. The document can be dowloaded by clicking on the PDF link below:

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That's all for now!
Stephen Powell
TDS Coordinator

End of another term...

Blog 

With the release of the WA Curriculum Outline, I have been adding links to the other pages on the blog and will continue to do so in the next few months. I have added some links to Civics & Citizenship and also to Economics and Business. If you have discovered some brilliant web site that you have used in your classroom, please send me a link to: stephen.powell@education.wa.edu.au 

I also plan to move the links on the right hand side that link directly to History onto its own page. Web sites like Australian Screen cover all of HASS so I will leave those types of websites on the front page. So, watch this space!

Geography

Planning a PL event for Geography and not sure where to start? A great video to inspire staff on the need for Geography in the primary school.
http://viewpure.com/dDk06h7Abbw

SHACC

Our final SHACC session for 2015 will be held in week 3 Term 4 - Wednesday the 28th of October - 4-5 pm at Greenmount Primary School. Come along to finish the year and we will be looking at reporting in History and the implcations for HASS in 2016. Go to the IPL website to register.

SABA

I have planned to have 2 more one hour Saba online sessions in term 4. They will soon be listed on the IPL website so keep a look out for:
TDS HASS - Integrating the HASS Curriculum (P-6)
With the release of the Western Australian Curriculum, teachers in all primary schools are looking at ways to cover all the curriculum in their year level. This session will provide teachers with a forum to discuss ways to integrate HASS into other areas of the curriculum. It will cover the planning, teaching and assessment cycle, which learning areas will work with HASS and the HASS skills. I will walk you through the ways in which Sawyers Valley are managing the curriculum at their Level 4 school.
The dates are:

• 19th of November 2015 
• 3rd of December 2015 

I hope to see you online soon!

Have a great holiday everyone and make sure you rest and get yourself ready for the always busy, always exhausting term 4!

That's all for now!

Stephen Powell

TDS Coordinator

LSL is over, now for some HASS!

After a few weeks longs service leave, I have returned to the work place ready for more HASS. I was fortunate to travel to the United States with my son and I was able to immerse myself in some History and Geography while I was there. I went to Thomas Jefferson's home Monticello and went to the battlefields from the Civil War. I could see the Blue Ridge Mountains in the distance and could see how place and space are interconnected with history in every place I visited. So much history all over the place!

SHACC
The next SHACC will be held on Wednesday the 16th of September from 4-5 pm at Greenmount Primary School. The focus will be on teaching strategies. Please register via the IPL website. Thank you.

Old Victorian Schoolhouse

Last term we were lucky to have the year 4/5 students, teachers and parents from Hollywood Primary School spend a day in Victorian times. All that attended the day really immersed themselves into the spirit of the day and had a great time. When they returned to their school they completed a Venn Diagram comparing school from today and from the 1900s. I was thrilled to receive these examples from the class that I can now share with you. So many observations were made by the students.

• Year 4 HASS Skills

Questioning and Researching

• Record selected information and/or data (e.g. use graphic organisers, develop note‐taking strategies)  

Communicating and Reflecting

• Present findings and conclusions in a range of communication forms (e.g. written, oral, visual, digital, tabular, graphic), appropriate to audience and purpose, using relevant terms.




• Year 5 HASS Skills

Questioning and Researching

• Record selected information and/or data using a variety of methods (e.g. use graphic organisers, paraphrase, summarise)

Communicating and Reflecting

• Present findings, conclusions and/or arguments, appropriate to audience and purpose, in a range of communication forms (e.g. written, oral, visual, digital, tabular, graphic, maps) and using subject‐specific terminology and concepts 

Reminder!

If your school would like to access Sawyers Valley TDS or any other TDS school, please have your administration complete a TDS request form from the website below:

http://det.wa.edu.au/curriculumsupport/detcms/navigation/professional-support/teacher-development-schools/?page=9#toc9

That's all for now!

Stephen Powell

TDS Coordinator

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