Mr Cawley with year 8 students and their "Time Traveller" displays. Middle Schooling Open Day, 2003 Mission - "Terrace Middle Schooling acknowledges the special needs of adolescence and strives to provide opportunities for each student to become an independent learner through rich, innovative and rigorous curricular and co-curricular experiences within our faith community". This goal embraces:Adolescence as a period with specific intellectual, social, emotional, moral, spiritual and physical needs. The development of multi-literacy skills through cross curricular enrichment; incorporating a balance between student centred, enquiry based approaches to teaching and learning and traditional teacher directed instruction. The need to develop students' complex reasoning processes and higher order thinking skills. The importance of integrating technology into the experience of everyday learning. The opportunities afforded by first hand experience of social and cultural diversity in local and global communities.

Middle Schooling Booklet - October 2002 (PDF File) Years 5 to 8 Pages Check out the web pages of our year 5, 6, 7 and 8 students. Years 5 -8 Curriculum An outline on the year 5 to 8 curriculum Year 8 Curriculum Overview - 2004 (Word File). You can download an overview of the year 8 curriculum by clicking on this link. You can see which topics year 8 core classes will study in each term. Please note that this is a guide only and changes might occur. - coming soon Year 10 Immersion, 2002 Year 10 Immersion, 2003 An outline of the 10 units on offer this year. Please note only 7 or 8 of these will run, depending on student preferences. Middle Schooling E-Newsletter for Staff (Intranet Only)   Background Research Research informing our directions for middle schooling at Terrace drew on the following: Middle Years Research and Development (MYRAD) Project Reports, Victoria The Middle Years of Schooling Association of Australia The American National Middle Schooling Association The Queensland New Basics project Middle Schooling investigation interviews conducted at 24 schools in South East Queensland,New South Wales, Victoria and Tasmania in March 2002 Input from visiting academics Dr Loretta Giorcelli and Dr Ken Rowe

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