Course numbers:

16601 English Life Skills (2 units – Year 11)

16601 English Life Skills (2 units – Year 12)

Prerequisites: A student studying any Stage 6 Life Skills course will usually have completed one or more courses based on Life Skills outcomes and content in Years 7–10, except under special circumstances.

Exclusions:

11140 English Advanced (2 units – Year 11)

15140 English Advanced (2 units – Year 12)

11165 English EAL/D (2 units – Year 11)

15155 English EAL/D (2 units – Year 12)

11150 English Extension (1 unit – Year 11)

15160 English Extension 1 (1 unit – Year 12)

15170 English Extension 2 (1 unit – Year 12)

11130 English Standard (2 units – Year 11)

15130 English Standard (2 units – Year 12)

15125 English Studies (2 units – Year 12)

30105 English Studies (2 units – Year 11)

15126 English Studies (Exam) (2 units – Year 12)

Course description

The English Life Skills Stage 6 course aligns with the rationale, aim and objectives of the English Stage 6 curriculum. The Life Skills outcomes and content have been developed from the English Studies and English Standard syllabuses to provide opportunities for integrated delivery.

The English Life Skills Stage 6 course focuses on the development of effective communication and literacy skills that enhance the participation of students in all aspects of post-school life.

The course emphasises the ability to communicate effectively in a range of contexts as well as access and respond to texts in different modes and media. Students are provided with opportunities to comprehend and interpret a variety of texts in both familiar and unfamiliar contexts. Students are also provided with opportunities to develop an understanding of the ways in which language forms and features shape meaning in texts. Students are encouraged to appreciate how our own and others’ experiences can be represented through texts.

Study in the English Life Skills Stage 6 course enables students to access information, engage in a range of recreational and leisure activities and undertake further education, training and employment.

What students learn

Where appropriate, students are provided with opportunities to engage with a range of texts to assist them to broaden and develop their language skills.

The structure of the English Life Skills Stage 6 course allows for a broad and balanced program that reflects the needs of students within the context of the collaborative curriculum planning process. The modules of the English Studies and English Standard courses provide possible frameworks for addressing the English Life Skills outcomes and content and are suggestions only. The course provides flexibility to develop programs appropriate to the needs, strengths, goals, interests and prior learning of students.

Course requirements

On entering students for the English Life Skills Stage 6 course, the principal is certifying that the student is eligible and the decision is the result of the collaborative curriculum planning process.

Students are expected to address or achieve one or more of the English Life Skills Stage 6 outcomes. They need not address or complete all of the content to demonstrate achievement of an outcome.