The Australian Curriculum documents are central to student learning and outline the aims, objectives and outcomes to be taught throughout the education system; the purpose of these documents is to provide an equal education to all students as outlined in the Statement of Equity Principles. The Australian Curriculum has two broad focuses: “Australian education promotes equity and excellence”; and “all young Australians become successful students, confident and creative individuals and active and informed citizens”. (BOSTES, 2015) Within curriculum 7-10 students are encouraged to develop their personal perspectives and opinions on social, political and cultural mediums which require students to represent these opinions in a range of formats "responding to a variety of texts critically, imaginatively and interpretively and compose accurate, clear and coherent texts” (BOSTES, 2015) Moffett's analysis of personal growth in learning involves four key phases: reflection, conversation, correspondence and publication “ one of these phases cannot take place until the previous ones have occurred” (Sawyer, 2010, p. 24) similarly within the 7-10 documents of the program students are continually required to “question, evaluate , contest and reformulate information". (BOSTES, 2015) Both the results of phase four and those of phase five include important personal elements