Year 7 and 8 Curriculum

The Year 7 and 8 Curriculum at Shelford Girls’ Grammar aims to:

• Enable students to meet and exceed the standards established by the Victorian Curriculum and provide meaningful differentiation for students in remediation, challenge and interest

• Encourage progressive skill development across a range of learning areas

• Engage students’ curiosity and support their mastery of the skills and knowledge expected

• Cultivate student focus and appropriate self-discipline, motivate students in their learning and promote their resilience

• Build subjects and units composed of rigorous, relevant and purposeful work

• Present significant experiences to students that they may cultivate good character

• Prepare students for future studies.

Summary of Course: Year 7

The Year 7 program is deliberately broad, offering students a range of experiences from which they can begin to learn about their passions, strengths and learning preferences. Students in Year 7 study the same subjects for the year, but a graduated and relevant program across each semester. All students in Year 7 study the following subjects:

• Digital Technologies

• Drama

• English

• Food Studies

• French

• Humanities (incorporating Geography, History and Civics & Citizenship)

• Japanese

• Mathematics

• Music

• Physical Education

• Quærite Wellbeing Program

• Science

• Visual Arts

Summary of Course: Year 8

The Year 8 curriculum offers students a study program meaningfully differentiated from the Year 7 experience, and foster opportunities for students to take calculated risks and try studies they may not have otherwise attempted. All students in Year 8 study the following subjects:

• Digital Technologies

• Drama

• English

• Food Studies

• Humanities (incorporating Geography, History, Economics)

• Language – French or Japanese, or French and Japanese

• Mathematics

• Music

• Physical Education

• Quærite Wellbeing Program

• Science

• Visual Arts

• Breadth Subjects – If undertaking one language only

Year 8 students have the choice to either continue a study of two languages, French and Japanese, or to study one Language and study the Year 8 Breadth Subjects. Breadth Subjects offer divergent experiences for learning and enrichment in areas that a student may not otherwise encounter in a mainstream curriculum at Year 8. These subjects are rooted in the school’s values of respect, integrity, creativity and passion, and seek to curate appropriate experiences for students to develop these values in a meaningful way.

To determine the Year 8 course, students make the following selection using an online selection program:

• One language of either Japanese or French and two semester-length Breadth Subjects

Or, alternatively;

• Two languages, both Japanese and French

Some students may seek permission to study a language through an external provider.