Grade 7 advisories at SPA serve as a supportive home base where your students build relationships, develop self-awareness, and explore their role within their communities. Through daily check-ins, guided reflection, and experiences like service learning and field trips, they strengthen these relationships, deepen their understanding of themselves and others, and grow in confidence and purpose.

In Grade 7 at SPA, students follow a six-day block schedule with two or three academic classes per day, spending 25–30 minutes on homework per class (about 60–75 minutes nightly). Each day includes a 45-minute quiet study period for independent work or teacher support. Advisors and parents guide students in managing time, developing strong study habits, and building academic independence, confidence, and success.

Each January, Grade 7 students travel to Camp Widjiwagan in Ely for a five-day overnight retreat focused on outdoor education and community building. Our students explore the northern forest they’ve studied in science, engage in hands-on learning about plants, animals, and ecology, and strengthen relationships with peers and teachers, making Widji a memorable highlight of the SPA Middle School experience.

Grade 7 students use school-issued laptops in all academic classes and continue to develop digital citizenship and technology skills. Lessons in computer science, engineering, laser cutting, and technology ethics are integrated across courses with guidance from technology faculty, helping to prepare our students for higher level technology work in Grade 8 and beyond.