Junior Secondary Years 7-10

Entry Requirements

Course Details

Year 7

The first step to ensuring our Year 7s are happy and high-achieving is to create a safe environment where they feel supported in their journey towards independence.

Immanuel’s village-like Middle School learning environment helps kids quickly feel at home, make new friends, build a strong relationship with their core teacher, and discover what learning styles work best for them. Our Year 7 classrooms look like a familiar primary school learning environment, but incorporate significant advancements to help students begin their journey to adulthood.

We know it can be challenging for kids entering secondary school – we’ve been welcoming Year 7s into our Middle School for more than 20 years. That’s why we have a strong orientation program to help our students build relationships, as well as gain academic skills.

All of our students are encouraged to explore and try new things, in fact, it’s compulsory. All Year 7s study music, art, fashion, technology, design, food technology, drama, outdoor education and languages.

For us, there’s nothing more satisfying than helping a child discover a new talent or interest, or making their impossible, possible. No matter where their passions take them, they’ll be supported by our expert team and facilities, and with the range of subjects offered in Year 12, no pathway is out of reach.

Year 8

Our students become confident, capable and self-reliant learners as we focus on developing skills like organisation and time management, critical thinking, personal learning, positive relationships, and cyber safety.

A team of specialist subject tutors support our Year 8s as they strengthen their knowledge in core and elective subjects across Arts, Physical and Health Education, Individuals and Societies, Language and Literature (English), Language Acquisition, Mathematics, Sciences, Design and Christianity and Life.

We recognise the emerging adolescent and we cater our well-being program and activities to meet their needs and to prepare them for the future. We want our students to be confident, capable and self-reliant learners, therefore we focus on skills such as:

Organisation and time management
Critical thinking
Personal learning
Positive relationships
Cybersafety

Year 9

One of the features of Year 9 is the Immanuel Journey program which incorporates healthy rites of passage to prepare students for adulthood. In the prime of their adolescence, with significant physical, social and emotional changes; the Immanuel Journey program supports them through this process.

We use carefully constructed spiritual, emotional and physical challenges to build our students’ resilience, independence and self-confidence. In the Journey program, students and teachers are grouped by gender, to allow them to discuss issues in a safe and nurturing environment, at this special point of time in their growth and development.

One of our challenges – a ten-day camp in the Flinders Ranges – helps them develop group management, team building, and camping skills while also fostering physical, spiritual and emotional growth.

In Year 9, each student undertakes a community project as well as core and elective curriculum subjects. In their community project, students create a product or outcome in an area that interests them, and that addresses a community need.

Senior School, Years 10, 11 & 12, build on the questions answered in Middle School. What am I good at? What do I love doing? Further exploring different subjects, students begin refining these thoughts and settling on the journey they want to pursue, eventually choosing pathways from over fifty Year 12 subjects. Senior School is about finding your thing.