Year 9

Welcome to Year 9 2026 

Year 9 General Core and Elective Information / Structure

• 1. All students will study Religious Education, English, History/Geography, Mathematics and Science for the whole year. These are compulsory subjects and are collectively referred to as ‘Core’.

• Students choose their Electives for 2026.

• All students do a compulsory Health and Physical Education elective each semester.

• All Electives are semester long except Languages which is yearlong (two semesters).

• All students must select preferences in the manner prescribed below.

• While all elective options are available for selection, some may not run due to limitations of school staff, facility resourcing and student demand.

Year 9 Curriculum Structure - 2026

Year 9 is a very exciting year level at St Bede’s College. Students will complete both Core and Electivestudies and will have the opportunity to select what they wish to study from a wider range of subjects. At St Bede’s College, the Year 9 curriculum framework offers students a launch pad into their senior phase of learning. The framework also aligns to the nation-wide changes to curriculum and its impact on VCE and VCE Vocational Major (VM). 2025 also sees the College offer a range of experiences over the course of the year whereby the timetable is suspended and activities run for groups of students. Theseinclude Camps, The Rite Journey and other learning activities such as a City Experience and Careers Education.

The Year 9 program is driven by two main goals. First, to create an educational framework that offers the very best preparation for each student’s future. Courses and electives are delivered within the Victorian Curriculum’s guidelines for accreditation, assessment and reporting. Our second and equally important goal is to provide pathway options that enable each individual student to find challenge, success and fulfilment, with one eye firmly on the post-compulsory year levels.

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