Year 9
Year 9:
- Class sizes of no more than 25
- Leadership experience
Our Year 9 programme offers high academic challenges:
- We provide a physically and emotionally safe learning environment
- Social experiences appropriate to this age group
- We aim to build positive relationships between students and teachers
“A physically and emotionally safe environment for students” ERO
Our Year 9 programme has the following features:
- More active and relevant learning opportunities than other types of schools
- Links between subjects more frequently made
- Provides more opportunity for student feedback during curriculum planning
- Extensive range of active learning and teaching strategies
- Student diversity is considered in selection of learning and teaching strategies
- Greater range of assessment activities and extent to which self-assessment is practiced
- Regular and positive communication with families
- Highly nurturing and positive
- Commonly held high expectations for every student regardless of academic ability
Our current Year 9 students say:
- Highly nurturing
- Positive environment
- More opportunity
- Technology Centre
- Safe learning environment
- I feel safe at Berkley
- People accept me for who I am
- I feel I belong
- Teachers make learning interesting
Our school values “We Care, We Share, We Dare” – is the focus of our Year 9 students.