Jody's+comments+Yr+7

Needs an overhaul in terms of skills and activities especially - I think we have been working in this direction of late, but it is still in need of some excitement!

Get rid of Sumer! Not enough info, not enough spark, and not enough point.

Move Rome to be comparitive and studied at the same time as Greece.

Provide more reason to spend time on the first unit - eg archaeological dig. Otherwise, it is dealt with simplistically because it is dry. How do we engage them here? How do we ensure that they reaslise it is not just reading pages of a textbook and that History is 'doing'?

Can we make a **very early trip to the Museum in Melbourne** - I know, a pain to organise - which will at least give them a sense of why we bother collating and analysising things from the past?

I think content is still important though - no good having a beautifully constructed model of a pyramid if there is no understanding of why they were built.

Lots to build on that is fun - if we can have time to do it together.