Students have one and a half hour specialist lessons every second day, and rotate among the 6 courses in Year 7 and 7 courses in Year 8 every 12-15 lessons.

Food and Fabric

learn about healthy dieting, food pyramid and digestive system learn to use kitchen tools, the oven, microwave and stove to make muffins, biscuits, mini pizzas, scones, pancakes, chocolate cake and fudge among other things learn to correctly thread a sewing machine and use it to create a product the student first designs examples of products made in the past include beanbags, Frisbees, small cushions, drawstring bags

Hard Materials

Bob Gray

learn to work with a variety of materials including woods, plastics and metals learn to use a huge range of tools and machinery to cut, bend, heat up, drill, engrave, mark, sand and saw materials including belt sanders, jigsaws, drill presses, and hand tools like hammers utilise skills learned to design, construct and decorate a product examples of products made in the past include maze games, toy trucks, jewellery boxes, CD racks, tool trays

Graphics and Design

learn drawing techniques involving proportion and perspective, drawing what is seen instead of what a student may think it should look like design an original product and its packaging following a design process with concepts, development, evaluation and refinement build a three dimensional model of the final product design the focus is on individual solutions to a single problem, which allows development of problem solving techniques and creativity

Art

each cycle changes to a different project possibly involving clay, pastel, printing ink, paper mache, plaster, paint, dye… the possibilities are endless in the past students have made aboriginal clay pots, pacific art printing, three dimensional flowers, paintings in imitation of a particular artist (e.g. Hundertwasser), wearable art learn about the elements of art – lines, textures, shading, colour, shape and how these all influence the way a piece of art can be appreciated and interpreted by the viewer

Music

learn to read music, recognise pitch and rhythm and different note types learn about elements of music and how it can be used to express or engender emotions learn about different composers and the impact they have had on the development of styles of music learn about instruments and how to play guitar, percussion (woodblocks, xylophones, glockenspiels) and keyboard begin to compose music using Garageband, incorporating pre-recorded loops as well as recording their own melodies

Media Studies

explore the power of visual media making meaning of media and the growing influence it wields on our everyday lives students develop practical working knowledge in a variety of electronic digital media students generate media used to deliver social messages to their peers through the school television system