Semester Only
Compulsory

Students explore a range of artmaking including observational drawing, printmaking in the form of linoleum block printing and ceramics. Students also have opportunities to interact with artists through our annual artist in residence program and tailored workshops related to the curriculum.

Full Year Only
Compulsory

Students explore a range of key ideas across nine focus areas, investigating what it means to create change, digital safety and responsibility, physical health, and the capabilities and dispositions to succeed in and contribute to a complex, rapidly changing world, through the three strands of students relationships, their community and their world.

Semester Only
Compulsory

This subject is designed to encourage students to explore real-world problems within their local community. Students learn to put the needs and preferences of their target customers at the centre of their problem-solving efforts, to ensure their solutions are practical, effective and well-suited to the needs of the people they are trying to help.

Students learn about different aspects of business innovation and entrepreneurship, including market research, product development, marketing and finance. The importance of collaboration, creativity and critical thinking in the business world is explored. Through hands-on projects and case studies, students develop practical skills and knowledge that can be applied in real-world situations.

Full Year Only
Elective

Students explore the Chinese language, including the Chinese writing system, through a range of purposeful, authentic tasks gaining an insight into language and culture, while encouraging them to develop curiosity about the global community. They apply language learned to personal, real-world, meaningful situations, gaining an understanding of both the features of the Chinese language and the relationship between languages, culture and identity. Students explore a range of intercultural themes related to their personal world.

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.

Semester Only
Compulsory

Students develop their understanding and skills in applying the literary, performance and technical elements of drama to devise, develop, rehearse and present dramatic products for a Children’s Theatre audience.

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.

Full Year Only
Elective

Students explore the French language through a range of purposeful, authentic tasks, gaining an insight into language and culture, while encouraging them to develop curiosity about the global community. They apply language learned to personal, real-world, meaningful situations, gaining an understanding of both how the French language works and the relationship between languages, culture and identity. Students explore a range of intercultural themes related to their personal world.

Semester Only
Compulsory

Students explore how environmental and human processes affect places and environments, how interconnections between places, people and environments affect both the lives of people and environments now and in the future, as well as investigate how these changes can be managed.

Semester Only
Compulsory

Students develop their historical understanding through study of the period from the end of the ancient world to the beginning of the modern world (c. 650 – 1750 CE), including consideration of the Viking period, Medieval Europe, the Black Death and Tokugawa Japan or the Khmer Empire.

Full Year Only
Compulsory

Students immerse in a rigorous curriculum that allows the growth of mathematical skills, knowledge, techniques and dispositions highlighted by the introduction of Linear Equations and Functions.

Semester Only
Compulsory

Through the Elements of Music, students develop and explore skills through live performance, use technology to explore basic composition and arranging, extend music theory concepts, and further engage and connect with First Nations Australians’ music and culture.

Compulsory

Girls will participate in a six-day adventure in the Grampians Victoria, with opportunities to nurture positive relationships with the environment, others and themselves through interaction with the outdoor experiences.

Full Year Only
Compulsory

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

Full Year Only
Compulsory

By the end of Year 8, students compare physical and chemical changes and use the particle model to explain and predict the properties and behaviours of substances. They identify different forms of energy and describe how energy transfers and transformations cause change in simple systems. They compare processes of rock formation, including the timescales involved. They analyse the relationship between structure and function at cell, organ and body system levels. Students examine the different science knowledge used in occupations. They explain how evidence has led to an improved understanding of a scientific idea and describe situations in which scientists collaborated to generate solutions to contemporary problems. They reflect on the implications of these solutions for different groups in society.