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11–12English Life Skills 11–12 Syllabus

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Implementation from 2026
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Life Skills

Life Skills for Stage 6

Through collaborative curriculum planning, it may be decided that Life Skills outcomes and content are the most appropriate option for some students with intellectual disability.

Expressing ideas and composing texts
Composing texts
  • Recognise that photographs, pictures or symbols communicate meaning

  • Compose texts that offer personal responses to a chosen text

  • Represent personal experiences and ideas for particular audiences and contexts

  • Compose texts for different purposes and audiences using appropriate forms, language or visual features to communicate, including workplace and real-life texts

  • Create multimodal texts to inform or engage an audience

  • Recognise and demonstrate online communication that is safe and ethical

  • Identify issues that can occur when creating digital texts and develop strategies to overcome these issues

Using language forms and features
  • Use language forms or structures to express ideas

  • Apply grammar conventions accurately in texts

  • Use punctuation to clarify meaning

  • Use a range of sentence structures to create meaning

  • Use vocabulary for purposeful effect

  • Use visual or language features to create texts

  • Experiment with language forms, features or structures to develop creativity

Planning, reflecting and revising composition
  • Choose the most appropriate mode to express ideas

  • Set and monitor personal goals to improve composition skills

  • Use scaffolding to plan compositions

  • Use model texts to plan and monitor text structure

  • Select editing techniques or tools to enhance clarity and meaning in texts

  • Apply peer or teacher feedback to enhance clarity

  • Reflect on own or peers’ composition process

  • Identify personal barriers to composing texts and strategies to overcome these

  • Reflect on own final composition

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