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Humanities and Social Sciences

Foundation Year

Satisfactory

My photo album

Summary of task

Students were asked to pose questions to their mothers regarding their lives at particular ages (baby, toddler, school student). The teacher subsequently transcribed students’ recollections of the answers to these questions. Students then created pictures, using coloured pencils and/or paint, of themselves with their mothers at each of these three ages. The pictures and transcribed answers were matched and then sequenced chronologically by the students, and presented as ‘photo albums’ of their lives.

Achievement standard

By the end of Foundation Year, students identify important events in their own lives and recognise why some places are special to people. They describe the features of familiar places and recognise that places can be represented on maps and models. They identify how they, their families and friends know about their past and commemorate events that are important to them.

Students respond to questions about their own past and places they belong to. They sequence familiar events in order. They observe the familiar features of places and represent these features and their location on pictorial maps and models. They reflect on their learning to suggest ways they can care for a familiar place. Students relate stories about their past and share and compare observations about familiar places.

By the end of the Foundation year, students identify important events in their own lives. They identify how they, their families and friends know about their past and commemorate events that are important to them.

Students sequence familiar events in order. They respond to questions about their own past. Students relate a story about their past using a range of texts.

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Learning Area
Presents a story about their past using personal examples
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Learning Area
Sequences events in order
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Learning Area
Recounts familiar events
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Subject - History
Recounts familiar personal events
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Subject - History
Sequences events in order and recognises notions of change
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Subject - History
Uses simple terms to denote time