Faculty staff
Mr J Boyle (Header Teacher)
Mrs B Fenech
Ms C Flynn (Monday, Tuesday, Friday)
Ms C Lowe (Wednesday, Thursday, Friday)
Mr D Rule (Principal)
Ms K Suttling (Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday)
Ms N Cregan
Mr M Arrowsmith
Mr B Devenyi-Botos
Teneille Biasetto (Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday)
Lyndal Howison (Monday, Thursday, Friday)
HSIE offers a range of challenging and diverse courses, both mandatory and elective from years 7 to 12 at Davidson High School.
Years 7 and 8
All students explore both ancient and medieval societies in the history course with an emphasis on skills such as the use and analysis of sources and the ability to identify different perspectives and understandings of the past.
Across the two years of geography all students are introduced to the nature of geography and global environments where students explore our role as global citizens. They begin to develop skills involving mapping, scales, distances and graph analysis.
Year 7 students will study two main topics, landforms and landscape, and place and liveability, in geography as well as learning a range of geographical skills. Topics for study are investigating the world and global environments.
Students continue to alternate between history and geography each semester in Year 8
Students will study three main topics in history including: medieval Europe, expanding contacts: the Spanish conquest of the Americas and the Asia-Pacific world: Japan under the shoguns. In geography, two main topics, water in the world, and interconnections will be studied.
Years 9 and 10
Davidson offers several elective courses in Years 9 and 10. Students have the option to choose elective history and geography as well as commerce. Both the history and geography courses move away from the compulsory topics and allow both students and staff to explore areas of interest to them with a broad thematic framework.
Commerce explores a range of topics that bring students into contact with terms such as finances, management, business and budgeting as well as providing students with the opportunity to enter the stock exchange game.
Years 11 and 12
Students have the opportunity to elect to do any of eight courses offered in the senior school in the HSIE faculty which include: ancient history, business studies, economics, history extension, geography, legal studies, modern history, society and culture. More information can be found about these courses at https://educationstandards.nsw.edu.au/wps/portal/nesa/11-12/stage-6-learning-areas/hsie or by contacting the school.