English
Faculty vision and strengths
- Empower students to explore diverse perspectives and understand the human experience
- Connect literary study to personal, social, and global contexts
- Nurture lifelong learners who are confident, reflective, and articulate
- Promote innovative teaching, collaborative learning, and inquiry-based approaches
- Providing explicit and meaningful learning opportunities for all students through differentiated programs, learning activities and assessment tasks
- Strong academic expertise and passion for English literature
- Student-centered pedagogy catering to diverse learning styles
- Innovative curriculum integrating contemporary texts and cross-curricula approaches
- Excellence in assessment and constructive, timely feedback to promote growth
- Experienced staff with extensive teaching backgrounds
- Faculty members with HSC marking experience, providing insight into assessment expectations
- Collaborative faculty culture sharing best practices and professional development
- Focus on literacy, analytical, and expressive skills for academic and real-world contexts
- Commitment to lifelong learning and understanding diverse cultures and human experiences
Some things you’ll learn:
- Reading and studying drama plays, novels, poetry, and non-fiction texts
- Exploring film and multimodal texts
- Developing analytical, imaginative, discursive and persuasive writing skills
- Expressing ideas in a range of ways, including visual representations, oral communication, multimodal and use of technological platforms, building confidence and communication skills through diverse mediums
- Working independently and collaboratively
- Analysing texts to understand concepts, language, and structure
- Offering personal interpretations and thoughtful responses
Subjects
English Advanced
English Extension 1
English Standard
English Extension 2
English Studies
English EAL/D
Activities
- Debating
- ‘The Writer Within’ writing workshop
- Project-based learning
- Curriculum-based excursions
- Immersion days and programs with local primary schools
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