Industrial Design and Technologies

The Humanities Faculty continues to evolve and thrive. On a daily basis the boys engage in activities that give them the transferable skills that will make them incredibly employable in the future. I would like to commend our teachers who have become very proficient in the creation of engaging lessons in the classroom and on STILE. This new learning platform was thrust upon them at the end of Term 1 when the school shut-down became a reality. Teaching and learning from home became a challenge that most of us accepted and took on. There were some hiccups along the way but I think, as a Faculty, we have come out the other side with more positives than negatives.

COVID-19 for many in 2020 is a nasty term that we do not want to hear or mention ever again. In the Humanities Faculty we like to take the positives out of what became a very difficult year for many of us. Covid 19 has given our Year 8 History students the opportunity to live in a pandemic while studying the weird and wonderful ways the world attempted to survive the Black Plague of the 1300’s and 1600’s. The financial fallout has enabled our Economics and Business classes from Years 9 – 12 to sift through the countless amounts of stimulus that has crippled local, national and international markets. And the ever-changing data has granted Geography students the opportunity to collect, manipulate, map and analyse trends across the world using GIS programs. But, at the end of the day, all of our students and staff are to be congratulated on surviving the interruptions we have experienced this year.

Also to be congratulated are the students in our first ATAR graduating classes. The resilience of these boys as all Queensland schools transitioned from the OP System to the new ATAR system has been outstanding. We have had some terrific results and I look forward to seeing our boys achieve the ATAR results they deserve.

If our best-educated citizens have no idea how to answer these basic questions, we will struggle to build a democracy that can solve the problems we face, whether they are what to do about climate change, the world’s poor, the problems of Australia’s Indigenous people, or the prospect of a future in which we can genetically modify our offspring. An education in the humanities is as valuable today as it was in Plato’s time. Peter Singer (Australian Philosopher), Ethics in the Real World Tim Lindeberg | Faculty Leader - Humanities