Year 08

​Year 8 continues the junior secondary foundation by strengthening core knowledge and providing exposure to technologies, the arts, humanities, health and science-based learning.

Subject list

Subject summaries

• Digital Technologies: Students learn to design digital solutions by using data, algorithms, programming, systems thinking and project processes. QCAA curriculum information.
• English: Students develop their understanding of language, literature and literacy through reading, viewing, writing, speaking and creating texts. 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.
• Mathematics: Students develop number, algebra, measurement, space, statistics and probability knowledge through reasoning, problem-solving and mathematical modelling. QCAA curriculum information.
• Media Arts: Students create and respond to media artworks, using media languages, technologies and production processes to communicate ideas. QCAA curriculum information.
• Science: Students investigate biological, chemical, physical and Earth and space sciences through inquiry, evidence and scientific explanation. QCAA curriculum information.
• Visual Arts: Students make and respond to artworks, developing visual language, techniques and understanding of artists, audiences and contexts. QCAA curriculum information.