Year 7

Our Year 7 and 8 students benefit from having both upper primary and secondary school facilities and programmes - specialist subject teachers and learning spaces across all curriculum areas. This enables us to support, enrich and challenge all our junior students in their learning, as they transition between Primary and High School.

There are 55 students in the junior school - one class of Year 7, one class of Year 8. Each Year 7 student has their own Year 8 buddy. This relationship begins at the Orientation Day, held in November. The buddy pair is in the same Whanaungatanga group, a bond that will continue for many years. In addition, we combine the two year levels for a third of their timetabled classes as this offers greater social diversity allowing the students to work in different groups, to make a wider range of connections and increases the likelihood of them forming relationships with other students with similar interests.

Integrated Studies, Literacy and Mathematics are team taught in a homeroom learning space. This allows us to have flexible groupings, to better know and meet the needs of our learners and to maximise the skills of our experienced Year 7 and 8 homeroom teachers, who are all primary trained teachers. This also provides a more seamless transition between Years 7, 8 and 9 as these teachers also teach subjects in Year 9.