On Track for Success: Years 7 to 9
Year 7 students seamlessly move from their year 6 classes to the start of the secondary school journey. The aim of our junior secondary programs is to engage our students in a rich seamless curriculum through:
- Connection to life outside school through real life curriculum opportunities.
- Experiencing integrated units of work including literacy and numeracy opportunities across the curriculum.
- Using problem-solving and decision-making techniques of various inquiry processes to investigate learning.
- Improving communication / social / self-management skills.
- Developing an awareness of social and cultural responsibilities.
- Negotiating learning and authentic assessment.
- Having their diverse needs met through the exploration of learning styles.
The junior secondary model builds on learning in core subject areas, including English, Mathematics, Science, Humanities, Languages and Health and Physical Education. Additionally, students sample electives from the technologies and the Arts subject areas including Design, Graphics, Industrial Technology, Digital Technology, Visual Arts, Dance, Music and Drama.
As students' progress through years 7 to 9 they will have established preferences for certain elective areas which will flow on to senior secondary.