Year 8

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 Secondary School.

There is one class of Year 7, one class of Year 8. Each Year 7 girl 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.