Activity 5: A New Town, New School

and New Hormones

Year Level: Years 6/7 – 8/9

Description: The activities in this section deal with moving to a new town and starting over. Students explore the physical and emotional changes that can occur due to resettlement and the advantages and disadvantages of a new school and new friends. It also explores the impact of change and transition on a teenager and asks students to develop strategies about how to cope with change in their own life.

Curriculum Study Areas: English, The Arts (Media), SOSE, Health and Physical Education, Personal and Social Capability

Topics/Themes:
Personal and social capability:	English and Media studies:
adolescence asking for help coping with challenges growing up identity and individuality masculinity peer pressure positive thinking relationships transition	adaptation appropriate and effective communication genre inter-textuality screen acting screen narrative signs, codes and conventions stereotyping

Aims:

• Examine issues of transition and deconstruct how they are portrayed and dealt with in Lockie Leonard.
• Explore the concept of adolescence, particularly the physical and emotional changes due to puberty.
• Analyse how film makers communicate Lockie's anxieties and emotional experiences.
• Adapt the messages and advice provided through the series to their own life experiences.

Teaching and Learning Activities: Each strand contains activities organised in two main components:

• the 'discussing' component: students will use individual and group talk to come to understandings about the issues and characters and to explore the significance of those understandings (e.g. for their own lives).
• the 'doing' component: students will use their understandings and explorations in order to do something – for example, perform or tell a story, create a product, transform some aspect of the series.

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