Term 2 reminder: house ties are mandatory; house morale is optional. The chapel organ has been retuned. Someone left a banana on the keyboard. Pacific Highway pedestrian crossing reverts to normal operation after Tuesday's incident. Cadet bivouac relocated to Bowman Field pending Hornsby Shire clarification. Senior Study Hub kettle: operational. Senior Study Hub kettle queue: not. Westfield lunch-run permits revoked for Year 9 until further notice. Reminder: assessment submissions in MP3 format are now strongly recommended. iCentral confirms last Tuesday's Flexischools outage has been resolved. Mufti Day raised $4,217 for the Year 7 Pastoral Care Vending Machine. Reminder: e-scooters are not permitted in the chapel, even briefly. The First XV defeated themselves in a closed-doors trial. Coach "pleased". Boarders kindly requested to stop forming their own micro-economies. The kookaburra on the front lawn has been issued a Year 12 leadership badge. The plinth on the front lawn is the site of the seventh memorial. BREAKING: Year 9 cohort discovers Year 9 cohort. A reminder that the Avenue is for pedestrian use, not for trading futures. Celebration of Learning concluded at 8:47pm. The Headmaster has notes. Year 11 Avenue trading incident now under quiet review. iCentral reminds students: closing your laptop is not, on its own, a backup. Term 2 reminder: house ties are mandatory; house morale is optional. The chapel organ has been retuned. Someone left a banana on the keyboard. Pacific Highway pedestrian crossing reverts to normal operation after Tuesday's incident. Cadet bivouac relocated to Bowman Field pending Hornsby Shire clarification. Senior Study Hub kettle: operational. Senior Study Hub kettle queue: not. Westfield lunch-run permits revoked for Year 9 until further notice. Reminder: assessment submissions in MP3 format are now strongly recommended. iCentral confirms last Tuesday's Flexischools outage has been resolved. Mufti Day raised $4,217 for the Year 7 Pastoral Care Vending Machine. Reminder: e-scooters are not permitted in the chapel, even briefly. The First XV defeated themselves in a closed-doors trial. Coach "pleased". Boarders kindly requested to stop forming their own micro-economies. The kookaburra on the front lawn has been issued a Year 12 leadership badge. The plinth on the front lawn is the site of the seventh memorial. BREAKING: Year 9 cohort discovers Year 9 cohort. A reminder that the Avenue is for pedestrian use, not for trading futures. Celebration of Learning concluded at 8:47pm. The Headmaster has notes. Year 11 Avenue trading incident now under quiet review. iCentral reminds students: closing your laptop is not, on its own, a backup.

Years 7–9

Middle School

The years in which students discover algebra, deodorant, and the locker economy.

The Middle School covers Years 7 through 9 — a period of profound personal, intellectual, and olfactory development. Our programme is calibrated to support each student through this transition with care, rigour, and a generous supply of permission slips.

Academic Programme

Students in Years 7–9 undertake the full NSW curriculum across English, Mathematics, Science, HSIE, PDHPE, Languages, the Creative Arts, and TAS. Stage 5 elective lines are introduced in Year 9. Approximately 60% of Year 9 elective preferences are revised within the first three weeks, generally after a student notices what their friends chose.

Devices

All Middle School students participate in the school's BYOD programme. The school recommends a current laptop with sufficient battery life. The school discourages, but cannot prevent, the bringing of an iPad with a cracked screen "that's basically fine".

The Locker Economy

The Middle School locker corridor sustains a small but resilient internal economy, primarily based on Up & Go barter, ribbon swaps, and the occasional speculative trade in trading cards. The school monitors this activity but does not interfere unless a student begins quoting The Wealth of Nations.

Co-curricular

Saturday sport is mandatory, year-round, and weatherproof. Cadets become available in Year 9. Music ensembles meet at hours of the morning that, in any other context, would constitute mistreatment.

Pastoral Care

Year Advisers oversee pastoral care, with support from Heads of House and the school counsellor. Discussions in Year 8 focus on resilience, screen time, and the importance of replying to one's parents' messages within 24 hours.