Rationale

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 * Rationale**

This wiki has been designed to engage Year Four students of Lavender Bay Public School* in addressing the roles and responsibilities of community members or stakeholders in protecting and serving significant sites and places. The current issue in the North Sydney region (where the school is located) surrounds the development proposal of a heritage listed park, 'Graythwaite', which is a significant historical and recreational site within the local community. This development proposal has been put forward by Lavender Bay Public School to extend the school grounds. Thus, this unit, 'Community Conservation', will require students to look at both sides of the debate and consider the importance of conserving the park for community, historical and environmental importance, as well as considering the school's perspective. Students will look at the importance of conservation and management of significant sites within wider NSW and Australia. This knowledge will form the basis of a multimodal text to be presented to the local community in a "Town Meeting", with the aim of gaining support to conserve the park for community use. For the purpose of this assignment, this unit has been applied specifically to the context of the North Sydney region. However, this unit can be applied within any schooling context. //*Lavender Bay Public School is a fictitious school based on an actual school involved in this contentious issue.//