Week / Week Beginning / Unit / Concepts Covered / School Event/
Public Holiday / Assessment Due
1 / 22 Jan / Number /
- Natural Numbers
- Integers
- Index Notation
- Order of Operations
- Primes and Composites
- Square Numbers and Square Roots
23 Jan - Years 10, 11, 12 Commence
26 Jan - Australia Day
2 / 29 Jan / 2 Feb Last day for subject changes
3 / 5 Feb / Real Numbers /
- Fractions
- Operations with Fractions
- Decimals
- Operations with Decimals
- Rational Numbers
6 Feb – Semester 1 Overviews Published
4 / 12 Feb / 15 Feb Snr Pathways Evening for Yr 10 Students and Parents in Hall: 6 pm
5 / 19 Feb / Algebraic Operations /
- Algebraic Notation
- Language of Mathematics
- Collecting Like Terms
- Product and Quotient Simplification
- Generalising Arithmetic
- Algebraic Substitution
22 Feb BCC Immunisations 9 am All Yr 7
6 / 26 Feb / 28 Feb Yr 7 Writing Workshop in Lib: Pd 1 & 2
2 Mar Clean up Wavell Day Pd 4
7 / 5 Mar / Revision & Exam / 7 Mar Yr 12 Maths A&B Exams in Hall: Form, Pds 1 & 3 / EXAM
8 / 12 Mar / Percentage /
- Percentage
- Expressing One Quantity as a Percentage of Another
- Finding a Percentage of a Quantity
- Percentage Increase or Decrease
- Finding a Percentage Change
- Business Applications
9 / 19 Mar / 20 - 22 Mar Yrs 7&9 NAPLAN Trial
10 / 26 Mar / Assignment / 26 - 27 Mar Yr 12 QCS Practice Test in Hall & Cert 1 Workshop: All day
26 Mar Year 11 Business Management excursion to Dreamworld
27 Mar School Dance in Hall: 7 pm – 10 pm
28 Mar Yr 9 Science Day Pd 1 - 3
29 Mar Mid Semester Reports emailed
30 Mar Good Friday / ASSIGNMENT
Autumn Vacation (30 March – 15 April)
/ Semester One 2018 / Year Level: 8 / Subject: Extension Mathematics
Week / Week Beginning / Unit / Concepts Covered / School Event /
Public Holiday / Assessment Due
11 / 16 Apr / Laws of Algebra /
- Index Laws
- Expansion Laws
- Zero Index
- Distributive Law
- Simplifying Algebraic Expressions
- Brackets with Negative Coefficients
- Factorisation of Algebraic Expressions
18 Apr “Shake & Stir” in Hall: Yr 8 Pd 1, Yr 11 Drama Pd 1
19 Apr Inter-house Cross Country Pd 3&4
20 Apr ANZAC Day Assembly
12 / 23 April / 23 Apr Yrs 7 -11 Problem Solving Challenge in Hall
24 Apr Wavell SHS Homecoming Rugby League Event
25 Apr - Anzac Day Public Holiday
13 / 30 April / 1 May Parent Teacher Interviews: 3:30pm – 7:30pm – N Block
2 May Yr 7 U2B Reading/Writing W/shop in Lib: Pd 1 & 2
Equations /
- Solution of an Equation
- Linear Equations - Maintaining Balance
- Inverse Operations
- Algebraic Flowcharts
- Solving Equations
- Equations with a repeated unknown
14 / 7 May / 7 May Labour Day Holiday
8 May BCC Immunisations 9 am, Yr 10 Meningoccal
15 / 14 May / 14 May District Cross Country (Kedron SHS)
15 – 17 May Yrs 7 & 9 NAPLAN Test Day
16 May Yr 12 QCS/Cert 1 Workshop: Pd 1 & 2
Yr 12 Physics excursion Planetarium: Pds 3 & 4
20 May OPEN DAY
16 / 21 May / Geometry of Polygons /
- Review of Geometrical Facts
- Triangles
- Isosceles Triangles
- Quadrilaterals
24 May Yrs 9 & 10 Business Market Day: Pd 3 & Lunch
24 May SRC Non-Uniform Day
17 / 28 May / 30 May Yr 10 Careers Expo in Hall: Form to Pd 3
18 / 4 June / Revision & Exam
19 / 11 June / 11 – 20 June: Sem 1 Exams Yrs 11 & 12
15 – 19 June Sem 1 Exams Yr 10
15 - 20 June Sem 1 Exams Yrs 7, 8, 9 / EXAM
20 / 18 June / Review Semester Results
Begin Term 3 Unit (Length and Area) /
- Conversion of Units
- Perimeter
- Circumference of a Circle
20 June - Normal classes resume Yr 10
21 June – Normal classes resume Yrs 11 & 12
22 June – Yr 10 WEX Induction in Hall: Pd 4
21 / 25 June / 25 - 26 June Yr12 QCS Practice Test & Cert 1 Workshop in Hall & Q Block
Yr 10 Cert 1 Workshop/Catch-up: Pd 2 - 4
25 June Yr 10 Work Experience Prep: Pd 1
26 – 29 June Yr 10 Work Experience
27 – 29 June Yr 7 Camp at Noosa
28 - 29 June Year 11 Sem 1 Report Cards issued & Academic Review
29 June Sem Reports finalised and posted for Yrs 7 - 10, 12
Winter Vacation (30 June – 15 July)