Overview
The timetable at Peter Moyes Anglican Community School comprises five Periods a day, with 64 minutes in each Period, totalling 25 Periods in a week. Students in Years 7 and 8 have the following allocation of classes:
Students in Year 7 and Year 8 have compulsory Mathematics, English, Science and Humanities (MESH) lessons for four Periods a week each, four Periods each for two termly electives, two Periods for Health and Physical Education (HPE), two Periods for Indonesian and one Period of Christianity, Religion and Life (CRL). Electives cover the curriculum learning areas mandated by Schools Curriculum and StandardsAuthority (SCSA), including Visual and Performing Arts, and Digital and Design Technologies. These provide students with a ‘taster’ of the variety of subjects offered in the School, all delivered by specialist teachers.
All Years 7 and 8 class groups are homogenous, meaning there is no academic streaming although individual differences are accommodated within mixed ability classes through quality differentiated teaching and learning. This particularly occurs withing the MESH classes.
In Years 9 and 10, class groupings are calculated using the end of year Grades and standardised assessment results, and further guided by Heads of Departments and teachers’ professional judgment of the strength and needs of students. There is always the provision to change class groupings during Year 8 at appropriate times during the academic year, based on performance in those streamed groupings.
Progress and achievement in Years 7 and 8 subjects provide a valuable indication as to success in Years 9 and 10.
