Year 7

Agriculture  – Full Year Course

Course Description
Students will have both theory and practical lessons, experiencing an introduction to the wide range of Agriculture enterprises offered at Urrbrae. This subject will enthuse curiosity, interest and enjoyment in agriculture whilst developing agricultural skills, terminology, concepts and processes. Additionally Environmental and Sustainable Land Practices are explored. Throughout the year each class will have responsibility for managing the layer enterprise and the school recycling. Students follow the Urrbrae Middle School Agriculture Curriculum Guide.

Content

• Work Health & Safety/Recycling
• Introduction to Agriculture and the History of Urrbrae
• Vegetable Gardens
• Poultry/Layers
• Native Animals
• Environment- Conservation, Wetlands
• Lego Technics
• Introduction to Farm Animals

Assessment Components

• Practical/Reports and skills
• Theory/Application Tasks/Class work
• Tests

Music – term course

digital technology – semester Course

Course Description
Students focus on further developing understanding and skills in computational thinking such as decomposing problems and prototyping; and engaging students with a wider range of information systems as they broaden their experiences and understanding of the digital world. Students move through different areas and complete work in Technical graphics, Computer Aided Design and Computer Aided Manufacturing (CAD/CAM), Coding in both Arduino and Scratch, online safety, and trends in Digital Technologies.

Content

• Digital Technologies – Data and the internet – trends and safe practices
• Technical graphics – Orthographic and Isometric
• CAD/CAM – Design task using Fusion360 and 3D printing
• Coding with Scratch (block code) – Coding with Arduino (text code C++)

Assessment
Tasks will be weighted and judged by the Australian Curriculum achievement standards.

English – Full Year Course

Assumed Knowledge
Classes are mixed ability.

Course Description
The curriculum is built around the Australian Curriculum strands of Language, Literature and Literacy, to develop students’ knowledge, understanding and skills in listening, reading, viewing, speaking, writing and creating. Teachers revisit and strengthen concepts, skills and processes developed in earlier years as needed. Students interpret, create, evaluate, discuss and perform a wide range of texts, including texts designed to inform and persuade.

Content

• Study of print, visual and multimodal texts
• Text production
• Language study

Assessment Components
Eight to ten summative assessment tasks over the year:

• Responding to texts (written or oral)
• Creating texts (written or oral)
• Written tasks performed under timed conditions
• Tests

Additional Information
Students attend one or more performances. Students complete ACER PAT-Reading assessments to inform teaching and learning.

Health & Physical Education – Full Year Course

Humanities – Full Year Course

Course Description
This course provides students with an overview of a variety of areas including History, Geography and Civics and Citizenship. This course allows students to study the earliest human communities to the end of the ancient period, explore geographical processes, and recognise the environmental, social and economic factors that attribute to change. Students are exposed to a number of skills they will require through their studies including ethical research, group work, critical thinking and field work.

Content

• Investigating the Ancient Past
• Ancient Rome
• Ancient China
• Water in the World
• Place and Liveability
• Government and Democracy

Assessment Components

• Research Skills
• Source Analysis
• Film Study
• Essay Writing
• Tests
• Field Work
• Oral Presentations

Mathematics – Full Year Course

Assumed Knowledge
Classes are mixed ability for Term 1. A small Foundation Mathematics class is usually formed early Term 1 to provide extra support to students with particular numeracy needs. All remaining students are offered either Standard or Advanced Mathematics from Term 2 based on Term 1 achievement. Students are able to move at any time between classes based on teacher recommendations only.

Course Description
The proficiency strands understanding, fluency, problem-solving and reasoning are an integral part of mathematics content across the three content strands: The proficiencies reinforce the significance of working mathematically within the content and describe how the content is explored or developed. Teachers use a variety of assessment approaches to accurately reflect student understanding.
An expectation of mathematical proficiency has been embedded into curriculum content across all strands to ensure that students develop mastery in mathematics through the development and application of increasingly sophisticated and refined mathematical understanding and fluency, reasoning, and problem-solving skills. The concepts, skills, procedures and processes essential to the learning of mathematics are organised under six interrelated strands, in a sequence of development that increases in depth and breadth across the years of schooling.
The three content strands also specify content aimed at progressively developing students’ knowledge and use of mathematical, statistical and computational thinking through the processes of mathematical modelling, computational thinking, statistical investigation, probability experiments and simulations. When students are actively engaged in learning experiences involving the mathematical processes, they draw upon and further develop their mathematical understanding, fluency, reasoning and problem -solving skills in an integrated way.
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Content

• ​Number and Algebra
• Space and Measurement
• ​Statistics and Probability

Assessment Components

• Tests
• Investigations
• Group Work
• Projects
• Observations
• Online Tasks

Additional Information
Calculators and appropriate IT will be used throughout the year. Mathematical competitions run throughout the year to extend students’ knowledge and understanding.

Science – Full Year Course

Course Description
Year 7 Science is designed to be an engaging entry to high school science. It covers the four branches of science (Biology, Chemistry, Geology, Physics) in easily accessible units that are designed to make science relevant to students’ experiences and appropriate to the Urrbrae setting.

Content

• Welcome to High School Science
• Circle of Life
• Enough water Fit for Drinking
• Science of Toys
• Earth and Space

Assessment Components

• Major Assignments
• Quizzes
• Practical Reports
• Oral Presentations
•  End of Topic Tests