This week the Year 10 Enterprise and Innovation students held their Market Day Stall. Over the past few weeks these students have been working in teams to plan, market and run their stalls, with all profits donated to McAuley for Women and Children.
Last term the Year 7 Humanities students demonstrated critical and creative thinking through their time traveller’s journals. This assessment task enabled students to reflect on their learning by imagining they had travelled back in time to witness events for themselves.
Below are two examples of journal entries describing the discovery of Mungo Man in 1974.
The sounds of our team shouting fill the air. Jim is telling me to come over here. Adrenaline is pumping as I am running. What’s happening? Did they find something? I can’t believe what is before my eyes. A skeleton is in the ground with its hands clasped together and a pink substance coating the dust. It is also quite tall for a human skeleton.
‘Are we going to take it back to the lab?’ I ask.
Wouldn’t it be rude to not ask the first peoples of the land? I wouldn’t be surprised if they don’t.
‘We definitely will.’ Jim replies.
That was unexpected. I bent down next to the male body and realized the dust is ochre. I feel so honoured to witness this. Mungo Man. That’s what I will call him. He was probably an important person because he looks like he has been laid with care.
‘Alright everyone, let’s start digging it out!’ Jim exclaims.
My moral compass is telling me this is wrong; but this is a historical moment in time. I should be grateful?
Annie N (7A)
Dear Diary,
I’m travelling through the windy desert breeze while riding my motorbike, trail of gas leading behind. It has most likely rained here in Lake Mungo. As I drive, I noticed the surface sand had been washed away, revealing (what looked to be) a human skull, uncovered from the ground.
Regarding my recent discovery of Mungo Woman, I believed that this human skull could most likely be a life-changing discovery. I stopped, carefully eyeing the human skull. As I approached, I realized that it was in fact an ancient human head.
This discovery was too important and momentous to hide, it must be researched and shared with the public. I contacted anthropologist Alan Thorne and they tediously and carefully excavated the site, revealing the almost complete skeleton of an adult male, covered in red ochre. This man had been suggested to be of high importance, given the way he had been laid in resting.
Mikayla T (7A)