At year 7 students can practise answering questions on articles, stories, advertisements and paired texts. Lessons cover finding stated facts, drawing inferences, working out word meaning in context and identifying the main idea. Students also study author’s purpose, tone, text structure and persuasive techniques.

Year 7 students prepare for either a narrative or a persuasive task. Narrative lessons cover planning from a prompt, point of view, story structure, setting, character and word choice. Persuasive lessons cover taking a position, building paragraphs, using evidence and devices, answering opposing views and linking ideas.

Lessons focus on the grammar, punctuation and spelling skills tested at Year 7. Punctuation covers commas, apostrophes, semicolons, colons and speech marks. Grammar covers subject-verb agreement, verb tense, pronouns, modifiers, prepositions, conjunctions and active and passive voice.

Year 7 students can start with order of operations, then work across fractions, decimals, percentages, ratios and rates. Algebra lessons cover simplifying expressions and solving equations. Students also practise area, volume, angles, coordinates, probability, mean, median and mode. Financial maths covers discounts and GST. The final lessons can combine skills in multi-step word problems.