Year 07

Year 7 introduces students to secondary schooling through a broad foundation of core learning areas and selected specialist subjects. The offerings below support literacy, numeracy, inquiry, practical learning, creativity and personal development.

Subject list

Subject summaries

• Dance: Students develop choreography, performance and responding skills, using the elements of dance to communicate ideas and meaning. QCAA curriculum information.
• Drama: Students make, perform and respond to drama, using role, situation, tension, voice and movement to shape meaning. QCAA curriculum information.
• English: Students develop their understanding of language, literature and literacy through reading, viewing, writing, speaking and creating texts. QCAA curriculum information.
• German: Students develop communication skills in German while exploring culture, language systems and intercultural understanding. QCAA curriculum information.
• Health and Physical Education: Students build knowledge and skills for healthy, active lives through movement, wellbeing, safety and personal development contexts. QCAA curriculum information.
• Humanities: Students investigate people, places, systems and societies, building inquiry, evidence and interpretation skills across humanities contexts. QCAA curriculum information.
• Industrial Design and Technology: Students apply design and production processes to investigate needs, generate ideas, create designed solutions and evaluate outcomes. QCAA curriculum information.
• Japanese: Students develop communication skills in Japanese while exploring language, culture and intercultural understanding. QCAA curriculum information.
• Mathematics: Students develop number, algebra, measurement, space, statistics and probability knowledge through reasoning, problem-solving and mathematical modelling. QCAA curriculum information.
• Music: Students listen, perform and compose while developing knowledge of musical elements, forms and expressive communication. QCAA curriculum information.
• Science: Students investigate biological, chemical, physical and Earth and space sciences through inquiry, evidence and scientific explanation. QCAA curriculum information.
• Textiles and Food Studies: Students use design thinking, technologies and practical processes to investigate, produce and evaluate solutions using materials, food and textile contexts. QCAA curriculum information.