2022 – Curriculum Home Page 

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In 2022 we have 11 faculties offering over 180 subjects.

Course Counselling for 2022 will occur on Wednesday 18 August 2021. 

This day is a “modified school day”.

• Students will need to book an appointment for their session with their “Striving for Success” subject teacher.
• Because of COVID, no parents will be allowed to attend, sorry.
• Students won’t attend lessons, as no lessons will be run, only their appointment.
• The canteen will be closed.

Click on the faculties below to find out about students’ subject options.

• All Visual and Creative Arts, the Performing Arts (Dance and Drama) as well as Contemporary Music (as opposed to Special Interest Music). 

• A range of subjects that prepare students for learning, appropriate pathways beyond school, and development of themselves as people.

• All aspects of the English language AND English as an Additional Language (EAL)

• From basic cooking to Food & Hospitality industry courses and Child Studies. 

    HUMANITIES & SOCIAL SCIENCES

• Varied subjects including Legal Studies, History, Aboriginal Studies, Geography and Business Innovation.

• All Languages other than English. 

• From addition and subtraction, through functions and their graphs to statistics and calculus.

• Health and Physical Education (PE) as well as our AFL, Basketball, Netball and Soccer academies.  

• Fields as diverse as STEM, Robotics and Wildlife Studies to Psychology, Biology and Physics.

• Our school is one of only four Special Interest Music schools in South Australia. Entry into this course is by audition only. 

• Subjects that focus on using technologies (including digital) and use practical skills as part of learning.

Key to the colour coded badges used

  –  These subjects are compulsory.

  –  Students have a choice between several different subjects but must choose at least one.

  –  These subjects are not at all compulsory and are a free choice.

  –  These are SACE subjects which attract an ATAR.

  –  These are SACE subjects which attract an ATAR but with special conditions. 

–  These are subjects which DO NOT attract an ATAR.

  –  We are one of only four Special Interest Music schools in South Australia. This applies only to our Special Interest Music course.

ALSO –

• ATAR = Australian Tertiary Admissions Rank

• EAL = English as an Additional Language
  

• HASS = Humanities & Social Sciences

• NESB = Non-English Speaking Background

• VET = Vocational Education and Training