During the Middle Phase of Learning, students begin to investigate the larger world beyond home and school and need to develop as autonomous learners. Students in this phase have distinctive and diverse needs which stem from the very significant development changes in the period, as well as from a broad range of individual students' life circumstances, interests, skills and talents.
Being early adolescents, our Year 7 and 8 students are provided for in a slightly different setting at Springsure State School. This is done to ensure that these students' particular needs are met, especially when working from a secondary style timetable, being able to access traditional secondary subjects and then supporting the students in both year levels, particularly in Literacy and Numeracy.
The Year 7 and Year 8 students study in separate classes for English, Mathematics, Science and HASS, Health, Physical Education the Arts and Japanese. Year Seven and Year Eight students are split into separate groups for Food and Design Technologies and Industrial Design and Technology. Each student undertakes one semester of each of these subjects in Year Seven and again in Year Eight.