Year 7 Course Selection

The Middle School curriculum provides girls with the opportunity to experiment with different courses to find out what they might pursue through their Senior School studies.

Welcome to Year 7

The Middle School years allow girls to experience a range of different courses to determine what they might pursue through their Senior School studies. At Year 7, all students experience the same broad curriculum to develop their skills in literacy, numeracy, enterprise, languages, digital technologies and the creative industries. The curriculum assists in developing each girl's higher order thinking skills and the ability to interrogate and evaluate information. Girls work collaboratively and are encouraged to strive for their personal best in their studies across all courses.

Should you have any questions regarding the course selection process, please email me.

Rhiannon Giles
Head of Middle School

Art

Semester
Compulsory

Students explore a range of artmaking including traditional drawing techniques and drawing using digital media, painting and ceramics based on explorations of personal identity, culture and the world around them. Students also have the opportunity to interact with our annual artist in residence.

Artemis

Full Year Only
Compulsory

Students explore a range of key ideas across nine focus areas; investigating what it means to be happy, self-regulation and awareness, physical health, ethical shopping and the development of Baraza leadership skills through the three strands of students relationships, their community and their world.

Chinese

Full Year Only
Compulsory

Students develop the ability to communicate in Chinese, exploring the language in a range of meaningful, real-world situations while developing empathy and intercultural understanding through consideration of others.

Design, Technology and Engineering

Full Year Only
Compulsory

The Design, Technology and Engineering curriculum inspires students to employ design thinking and advanced technologies. This enables them to create and implement solutions tailored for authentic needs and opportunities.

Drama

Semester Only
Compulsory

Students develop skills and processes for playbuilding and communicating ideas through improvisation and by applying techniques from world theatre traditions including Ancient Greek Theatre and Indigenous Australian Storytelling.

English

Full Year Only
Compulsory

Students respond critically and creatively to a range of texts from different authors and experiment with the ways in which language features, stylistic features and conventions can be manipulated in various ways to impact a responder and create meaning.

French

Full Year Only
Compulsory

Students develop the ability to communicate in French, exploring the language in a range of meaningful, real-world situations while developing empathy and intercultural understanding through consideration of others.

Geography

Semester Only
Compulsory

Students develop geographical knowledge, understanding and skills through inquiry questions and specific inquiry skills, including the use and interpretation of maps, photographs, spatial technologies and other representations of geographical data.

History

Semester Only
Compulsory

Students develop their historical understanding through study of ancient societies (c. 60 000 BCE – c. 650 CE), including consideration of human evolution, Otzi the Iceman and one of Ancient Greece, Rome or Egypt.

Mathematics

Full Year Only
Compulsory

Students apply their conceptual understandings and logical reasoning to establish patterns and relationships highlighted by the introduction of Negative Numbers, Algebra and Equations.

Media Production

Semester Only
Compulsory

With a focus on students as creative artists, they learn various skills, techniques and processes involved in film production. They also develop skills and techniques for creating multimodal presentations using the Adobe Creative Suite.

Music

Semester Only
Compulsory

Through learning the Elements of Music, students develop skills through live performance, composition, formal music theory and explore and develop a foundational aural awareness of First Nations Australians’ music.

Outdoor Education (Year 7 Camp)

Compulsory

Girls will participate in a five-day aquatic-based adventure at Robe and our Crawford Campus in their Form group, with opportunities to nurture positive relationships with the environment, others and themselves through interaction with the outdoor experiences.

Physical Education

Full Year Only
Compulsory

Physical Education provides students with a practical curriculum for lifelong physical activity participation and enhanced performance. Students acquire an understanding of how the body moves, develop positive attitudes towards physical activity participation, and refine personal, behavioural, social and cognitive skills.

Science

Full Year
Compulsory

Students explore the diversity of life on Earth and continue to develop their understanding of classification and how energy and matter move through ecosystems. They extend their understanding of the particulate nature of matter and how interactions of matter and energy determine properties. Students consider the effects of multiple forces when explaining changes in an object’s motion. They begin to understand the relationship between science and society and appreciate the need for ethical and cultural considerations when acquiring data.