Our vision is to shape all of our Junior School students to be healthy, positive, and resilient learners who have the literacy, numeracy, personal and social capabilities required to be successful in the future.
Consolidating foundations & setting goals
Junior School at Doncaster Secondary College includes students in Years 7 and 8. Our aim in Junior School is to create an environment where students feel empowered to learn and achieve.
Students enrolling in Junior School come from different stages in their learning. Our role is to identify their learning needs and deliver a program that will consolidate and master the essential skills of literacy, numeracy, and personal and social capabilities. Establishing a strong foundation in these skills will set up a student’s success in all areas of life.
The Learning Partnership
When schools and families work together, children can become more engaged with their school work, achieve better academically, stay in school longer, and develop better social skills. At Doncaster Secondary College, we foster this Learning Partnership between the teacher, the family, and the student through regular assessments and feedback, and open communication channels between families and teachers.
Managing Me
Our Managing Me program at Doncaster Secondary College is a dedicated class for daily goal setting and planning, learning reflections, building community connections, and introducing students to a Career Action Plan. Personal and social capability development is the core focus area of this subject.
Whilst all subjects in the Year 7 program build skills in literacy, numeracy, and personal and social capabilities, subjects have a particular focus on developing skills in line with the relevant Victorian Curriculum. The Year 7 Curriculum Profile is shown below.
Subject | Instruction time (hours per week) | Learning Focus |
|---|---|---|
English / EAL | 3 | Literacy |
Reading | 1 | Literacy |
Writing | 1 | Literacy |
Language (Italian or Mandarin) | 2 | Literacy |
Humanities (Geography, History) | 3 | Literacy & Numeracy |
Art / Technology * | 2 | Literacy & Numeracy |
Science | 3 | Literacy & Numeracy |
Mathematics | 3 | Numeracy |
Numeracy | 1 | Numeracy |
Health & Physical Education | 4 | Personal & Social |
Managing Me | 2 | Personal & Social |
* Art/Technology includes a term each of the following subjects: Art, Music, Food Technology and Digital Technologies
Whilst all subjects in the Year 8 program build skills in literacy, numeracy, and personal and social capabilities, subjects have a particular focus on developing skills in line with the relevant Victorian Curriculum. The Year 8 Curriculum Profile is shown below.
Subject | Instruction time (hours per week) | Learning Focus |
|---|---|---|
English / EAL | 3 | Literacy |
Reading | 1.5 | Literacy |
Language (Italian or Mandarin) | 2 | Literacy |
Humanities (Geography, History) | 3 | Literacy & Numeracy |
Science | 3 | Literacy & Numeracy |
Mathematics | 3 | Numeracy |
Health & Physical Education | 3 | Personal & Social |
Managing Me | 1.5 | Personal & Social |
Elective 1 | 2 | * |
Elective 2 | 2 | * |
* Year 8s choose two electives which are semester-long subjects from the following: STEAM, Drama, Digital Technologies, Food Technology, Music – Music Studio, Design Technologies, Visual Arts, Extension English, Extension Mathematics
