Interdisciplinary Learning Year 7 History – Santa Sabina as a Historical Site

History at Santa Sabina is rich. Our College heritage is all around us and especially through our Charism and Christian beliefs that underpin our values. Aiming to make the study of History in Year 7 authentic this term History and Religious Education created an interdisciplinary learning challenge. The focus of this learning was to explicitly articulate the use of the historical site of Santa Sabina College and the material culture to reflect on the symbols and meaning of our shared heritage. Year 7 students in History demonstrated creative and critical thinking when examining sources of evidence from the site of Santa Sabina College.

Brigida Zagora
Head of HSIE (Humanities and Social Sciences)

Teacher reflection:

This term, Year 7 History students have been learning about the history and heritage of Santa Sabina College. In their History and Religious Education classes, they have participated in a tour of the College and completed an interdisciplinary assignment in which they investigated heritage items and reflected on the Dominican charism and pillars. Their study of Santa Sabina College as a historical site culminated in their visit to the Museum last week. 

Sarah-Jane Cartwright
History Teacher

Here are some of the students’ reflections upon visiting the museum:

The school has lots of heritage over the years and it’s very interesting to see it.

Deanna

I enjoyed looking at the old photographs and reading about different historical events. I also enjoyed looking at the awards won (house colour, sports events) and the old uniforms.

Asha

In the museum, I was fascinated by the uniforms. I loved the design of the uniforms and I loved that every uniform had a different meaning. I learnt that Santa Sabina students were very good at playing tennis. There were many old trophies for tennis competitions.

Oliniva N

Some of the uniforms were green and blue. It was nice to see the awards for sports, they looked very cool and it was engraved with the colour houses.

Summer

I love fashion so I really liked checking out the uniforms. I rated the uniforms out of 10 and my favourite was the beautiful green one (the most recent one). I also loved looking at the articles on the school’s history.

Olivia D

Seeing the uniforms that the students used to wear was quite fascinating, and also reading letters and pages of the students’ work, as well as seeing the old crockery kept in wonderful condition was amazing.

Abigail

It was a great experience, learning about how the school has changed over time to suit the needs of students at the time. The many artefacts inspired me to learn more about Santa Sabina, therefore giving me a great knowledge of the history of the College before me.

Zara

I learnt a lot about the path that had been made to create this beautiful community we have today, and I loved this opportunity and I can’t wait to visit the museum again.

Amelia