2001 School Magazine

social and environmental studies : ^ 5

partially, to guarantee an effective citizenship for a changing era These have ranged from those girls who have elected to study the Constitutional Short Course in their

We must model civic values to our

students on a dally basis. We must be explicit about those aspects of the social sciences on which our

democratic values are based

own time to those who have availed

Student learning should be based

themselves of the countless extra on engagement. it is Irrelevant to the future of a participatory and equitable tutorial sessions offered by the various Departments within the Faculty as a society whether we have an understanding off he mathematics of way in WEEh to extend and enrich preferential voting What 15 essential 15 the formal curriculum. The Geography that students work with teachers who Department celebrated much success in the Australian Geography demonstrate commitment to the Competition whilst Am anda growth of their students, nurturing and maintaining their self-esteem and Goldsmith and Pip Davie represented the School in the constitutional commitment to the community convention for South East Hopefully our students are exposed Queensland Schools. Every Year I I on a daily basis to teachers who are Economics student participated In passionate about a range of social issues and have developed a love for the annual stock market game sponsored by the AsX and were learning. . .life long learning. "

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Coinin Goss presents the Youth Mon!fosto to the Premier

joined by some very keen Year 10 investors in Term Three. Some of our Ancient historians were very fortunate to travel to Turkey and Greece at the end of Term Three whilst our Year 12 Geographers considered the sustainability of our valuable wetland areas and the contemporary issues associated with urban planning via the use of the state of the art Geographic Information System Matet Lester won the John Curtin Prize in the Queensland Division of the National History Challenge whilst Caitlin Goss was appointed the Captain of the Queensland Debating Team and travelled to Sydney for the national finals. Caitlin's contribution to the humanities at Girls Grammar has been outstanding and has included the remarkable achievement of presenting a youth manifesto to both the French and Canadian parliaments students and by no means reflects the dynamic and relevant curriculum that is offered and reviewed on a dally basis by the Faculty teachers who are so passionately committed to the task of enriching the lives of their students These are only but a few of the opportunities available to our

At Girls Grammar we believe that every student of the Social Sciences has been exposed to these noble ideals and that the girls have been taught to celebrate and scrutinize the past in the light of understanding the present in order to be prepared for the uncertainties of the future The world in which our students work is changing at a pace that 15 unrivalled in our human experience and iris Important that all of us can wade through the complexity and fluidity of the information that bombards our daily lives in order to achieve outcomes that are sensitive to the needs of others yet at the same time are both evolutionary and revolutionary. it is our hope that these needs are belng met via the delivery of an Inquiring and searching skills base that will equip our students with the powers of discernment so essential to effective citizenship in a changing era, an era so far removed from the chalk boards and text books of yesteryear Throughout the year the girls have been exposed to an array of curricular and co-curricular experiences that have provided them with many opportunities to develop the skills and knowledge associated with the life-long learning necessary, at least

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