CULTURESCOPE VOLUME 131

Letter from the co-editors Clare Howlett and Maxine Johnson 

Society and Culture Association President report –  Julian Floriano 

Articles

3. 2024 Society and Culture HSC Award Winners – Top Ten Exam Performance, High Distinction PIPs, Distinction PIPs

4. The Professor Sol Encel Award
5. The Peg White Award
6. 2024 HSC Awards Night student speech presented by Lucy Finlayson
7. High Distinction PIP extracts showcasing a range of compulsory PIP sections

– Introduction

– Log

– Central material including – application of data from research methods; integration of personal experience and public knowledge; application of concepts and language; evidence of synthesis

– Conclusion

– Annotation

8. Making the exceptional accessible – Applying a GIST reading strategy to support student engagement with sophisticated texts

9. Utilising the 2024 HSC PIP extracts to create a PIP picture through converting‘text to a table’

10. Announcement of the Dr David Dufty (AM) Award for Excellence in Teaching and Learning in Society and Culture 2024 recipient – Billie Fisher from Merewether High School. The focus for the 2024 award was: “Promoting cross-cultural understanding through innovative teaching and learning practices, promoting learning practices”.

11. The Professional Teachers Council (PTC) and the Institute for Educational Leadership in Australia (IELA) awards
12. From the Society and Culture Archives: 30 years plus, celebrating Dear Pippa! A selection of Dear Pippa from the past and HD PIP extracts from 1998

13. A Dear Pippa poster for the classroom: Students may like to access a ‘trusted voice’ from the SCANSW committee to answer a PIP question

SCA Resources