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Years 7 and 8 Academic Extension Program

The Academic Extension Program, introduced in 2015 to extend and support high-level critical and creative learners, is an innovative two-year learning experience that incorporates the Big History Project (BHP) and West Australian Curriculum in an enriched cross-curricular classroom environment.

The Big History Program, in essence, covers 13.7 billion years, from the Big Bang to Modernity, seeking common themes and patterns to understand people, civilizations and the world we live in.

The Academic Extension Program encourages students to grasp the entire scale of human history through evaluating a variety of perspectives and frameworks, allowing them to develop high-level thinking skills critical for future learning. The course inspires students and caters for a variety of interests and abilities in a way that will prepare them to excel in their future schooling at Broome Senior High School and beyond.

The course provides for a range of collaborative and individual assessment strategies that allow students to demonstrate their knowledge and skills across the WA curriculum, the Big History Program online framework and through inquiry and project-based learning experiences.

From 2018, the program has been extended to include a Year 8 class. The format in Year 8 builds on the ideas of the Year 7 program and adds an increased emphasis on student-centred project-based learning with a cross-cultural and cross-curriculum focus. Broome Senior High School has been chosen to develop this course in conjunction with the Big History Project for Australian and Western Australian based schools.

Students conclude the two-year program by making predictions on the future and creating a final presentation relating to their local content and the current world. These predictions are a showcase of student learning throughout the program and are then presented during an evening event combining the Year 7 and 8 Academic Extension classes.

For further information about the Academic Extension Program please see the Head of Learning Area,  HaSS – Ms Kate Murrihy.