SACE
South Australian Certificate of Education
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SACE is about preparing students for the future. This introduction by previous SACE Board Chief Executive, Professor Martin Westwell, explains it well.
The completion of the SACE occurs when students have built 200 SACE credits. Learn how students can build their credits using a combination of SACE subjects, vocational learning and training (VET), community learning, university and TAFE studies.
The first important thing to know about the SACE is that it is not a competition, but rather an individual journey where success can look different for every student.
The SACE is an internationally recognised qualification for life. It is designed to develop a young persons skills and knowledge required to live, work and participate successfully in an ever changing society. The SACE is flexible, offering choice in subjects and options to complete the qualification in a timeframe that suits them and their lifestyle.
As young people study the SACE, they gain valuable literacy, numeracy, critical thinking and problem-solving skills, while gaining knowledge about the specific subjects they choose. Students learn how to work with and alongside others, and to understand how their decisions can affect people, situations and the world. These capabilities are essential to their future education, training and careers, and their role as an active and informed citizen.
Achieving the SACE is important for continued study at TAFE or university, but there are also other pathways after secondary school. The SACE offers the flexibility to move smoothly from high school to employment.
The best place to gain comprehensive knowledge of the SACE is at the SACE website. Below are some key facts about the SACE that all parents and students need to be familiar with.
Building your credits (poster).pdfWelcome to the SACE - A parent guide (8 page).pdfThe SACE planner is an effective tool to help a young person plan their journey through the SACE. When choosing Stage 2 subjects, keep in mind any subjects that are required for the university courses you are interested in. It is recommended that students print and complete the planner and take it with them to their course counselling interview in Term 3.
The SACE planner.pdfWhat is EIF at Grant High School?
What is EIF at Grant High School?
Exploring Identities and Futures (EIF) is designed to prepare students for their SACE journey and equip them with the knowledge, skills, and capabilities required to be thriving learners.
EIF supports students to explore their aspirations. They are given the space and opportunity to extend their thinking beyond what they want to do, to also consider who they want to be in the future. The subject supports students to learn more about themselves, their place in the world, and enables them to explore and deepen their sense of belonging, identity, and connections to the world around them.
At Grant High School EIF is delivered during Homegroup lessons over the course of Year 10.
ACHIEVEMENT
ACHIEVEMENT
Stage 1 Exploring Identities and Futures is a compulsory subject. Students must achieve a C grade or better to meet the compulsory requirements of the SACE.
What is AIF at Grant High School?
What is AIF at Grant High School?
Building on the learning from Stage 1 Exploring Identities and Futures, Activating Identities and Futures (AIF) aims to foster independent learning and the skills of lifelong learning in students. It is a compulsory 10 credit (one semester) subject, offered to students in Year 11 or 12.
AIF requires students to take greater ownership and agency over their learning as they select, test, and explore relevant strategies and perspectives and seek relevant feedback in the pursuit of a Learning Goal of their choice. Students will develop greater awareness and understanding of their own thought processes, decision making, and organisation in relation to the learning process, with the goal to progress their learning to a resolution/output.
WHAT KIND OF TOPICS DO STUDENTS ENGAGE IN AS PART OF AIF?
WHAT KIND OF TOPICS DO STUDENTS ENGAGE IN AS PART OF AIF?
Students explore a wide range of topics for their AIF. The key to a successful topic choice in this subject is essentially that it is of genuine interest and value to the student and that they are going to 'learn' something new (with 'learning' having a wide range of applications in this subject). Some examples of the 'types' of topics students may select include:
Vocational: Explore something work/pathway related
Entrepreneurial: Business or community based problem solving
Passion and/or general interest: something they want to know more about
Problem Driven: Aims to solve a problem
Practical/Design Driven: Could be hands-on
Capability/skills Driven: Develop a skill or ability
ACHIEVEMENT
ACHIEVEMENT
Stage 2 Activating Identities and Futures is a compulsory subject. Students must achieve a C- grade or better to meet the compulsory requirements of the SACE. AIF grades can count towards a student's ATAR. More information is available on the SACE website.
Precluded Combinations
Precluded Combinations
Two subjects are a precluded combination for SACE completion if they are defined by the SACE Board as having significant overlap in content. They cannot both count towards SACE completion. If a Stage 2 subject is repeated, it can only count once towards SACE completion.
Where there is both a 10-credit and a 20-credit subject using the same subject code, these are precluded against each other. For example, 2CVA10 – Creative Arts and 2CVA20 – Creative Arts is a precluded combination.
Stage 2 Subject Preclusions.pdfPage updated
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