Classes: Year 8 - Maths

Year 7, the foundations for success

At Chalkwall we believe that the most important grade is Years 7! Our reason is simple. Year 7 sets the foundation for success in High School English.

Students require experience with a wide range of texts that they will encounter at school, home and in society. At Chalkwall our students are given plenty of opportunities to understand and effectively use language in creative, interpretive and critical ways. This process aims to create effective communicators through responding and composing texts with clarity and coherence. Students draw on essential writing skills to develop and strengthen sentence structure, grammar, punctuation and vocabulary.

Weekly Classes: English

In the Year 7 Foundations for Success Program, students work to compose original pieces of writing to demonstrate an increasing awareness to purpose and audience. They learn to make decisions about their language choices to shape meaning and express diverse perspectives. Each term students actively experiment to create different styles of writing where the application of language features, precise word choice, sensory imagery and literary devices produce writing for specific purposes.

During class, students are taught strategies that they can use to independently plan, draft and edit their work in order to produce a polished piece of writing. Time is given for the teacher to conference with individual students so that they are given constructive feedback that can be used in the editing stage of writing before the final text is produced. When composing work, students learn to evaluate their own and others’ writing as a means to reflect on their learning.

Our English Educators help and support our students to become fearless writers. This is undertaken in a classroom environment where collaboration is built and nurtured to enhance the learning experience. Our instructors use a range of strategies to implement a well sequenced program that is responsive to the strengths and needs of students.