Human Society And Its Environment (HSIE) is the Key Learning Area where children gain an enhanced sense of personal, community, national and global identity and where students are enabled to participate effectively in maintaining and improving the quality of their society and environment.

It is through study in these strands that children explore the content of history, geography, Aboriginal education, citizenship, environment and multicultural education. At St Cecilia’s HSIE is most commonly integrated with relevant RE and English topics, where particular emphasis is on Gospel values. In HSIE, students develop skills of identifying and gathering information, historical enquiry, critical thinking, mapping, presenting information and participating with others. Part of the HSIE program is our Italian language and culture curriculum. The overall purpose of the program is to introduce our children to a different culture as well as to learn speak some Italian.