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A diverse group of kids navigates the chaos of Year 7, capturing struggles and triumphs that shape their futures.
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A group of 16 kids from around Australia face their final few weeks of primary school with heightened emotions as they prepare to leave their old lives behind. For some students, concerns begin to surface about what starting high school will mean for their friendships, while others make plans for different high school extensions and streams. Orientation Day gives them their first taste of their new life before the boys and girls glam up for Year 6 graduation.
With Year 6 in the rearview mirror and the first day of high school rapidly approaching, the kids are starting to get nervous, excited and scared. It's the last ten days of holidays and they all want to make the most of their time off but they also want to make sure they've prepared enough. Their high school journey is about to begin as they prepare for their first day: How are they going to cope with having gone from the top of the food chain all the way to the bottom?
Having survived their first day of high school the kids debrief about the litany of firsts they experienced and it seems making new friends looms large on everyone's agenda. Isabel feels like she is slowly finding her groove as her packed extra curricular schedule heats up; Hudson struggles with feeling like a loner; Chelsea is enamoured with the high school canteen and finds strength in positive affirmations; Seb gets asked out by two girls he doesn't know but soon finds love. The kids ponder early high school differences and their approaches to forging new friendships.
Episode 4: As the kids ease into the new school year Damon decides to run for student council, however, he will have to give an entertaining speech and is upset when he loses a valuable item; Keira struggles to manage outside distractions with a heavy study load and witnesses her first act of bullying; Ty forgets his diary which costs him at school, which isn't made any easier when he begins to fall behind in violin practice. The kids discuss some bad experiences and the evil of being prescribed homework on a regular basis.
Ben masters the art of the necktie for school, revels in a homework-free month and vies for a cricket premiership coached by his dad; a phone-less Rosie who can't get Instagram frets about being forgotten by her primary school friends; Eleena makes plans to get a piercing and mum worries that her rebellious side will get her in trouble at school; school camp doesn't go how Harley expected it to and mum tries to pick up the pieces. The kids shed some light on the pros and cons associated with social media.
The most highly anticipated year of a student's life is also the one that can change the course of their adult psychology forever - the transition into Year 7. Psychologists have discovered that the way we navigate the change from Top Dog to Small Fish affects how successfully we navigate our entire lives, making the finding of new friends, dealing with new teachers and surviving puberty critically important. In My Year 7 Life, 16 diverse kids from around the country were given cameras to document their transition from primary school to high school. The series goes straight to the source, getting first hand accounts of monumental changes taking place over their entire first year of high school. Through them we'll discover just how much homework grown ups still have to do in order to relieve the stress and anxiety around a year that even people who loved high school remember as hard.