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Board Developed Course - 2 Units for each of Preliminary and HSC
Exclusions: English Advanced, English EAL/D, English Extension 1, English Extension 2, English Standard, English Studies
Course description
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
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
Course requirements
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.
Industries related to English Life Skills
Industries related to English Life Skills
The knowledge and skills developed in this course can be applied across a range of career pathways.
Industries related to this course include, but are not limited to, the following outlined on the Your Career website:
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