11–12English Standard 11–12 Syllabus (2024)
The new English Standard 11–12 Syllabus (2024) is to be implemented from 2026 and will replace the English Standard Stage 6 Syllabus (2017).
2025
- Plan and prepare to teach the new syllabus
2026, Term 1
- Start teaching the new syllabus for Year 11
- Start implementing the new Year 11 school-based assessment requirements
- Continue to teach the English Standard Stage 6 Syllabus (2017) for Year 12
2026, Term 4
- Start teaching the new syllabus for Year 12
- Start implementing the new Year 12 school-based assessment requirements
2027
- First HSC examination for the new syllabus
Content
Year 12
Students strengthen and extend their knowledge and skills as writers. They write for a range of purposes and audiences to convey ideas with power and increasing precision. Through the study of quality texts from the past and contemporary works, students analyse and assess the ways writers use structure, language and form. Through their engagement with these texts, students reflect on the process of writing and apply their knowledge of structure, language and form to create their own sustained and cohesive compositions. They examine how writers of complex texts use language creatively and imaginatively for a range of purposes, to describe the world around them, evoke emotion, shape a perspective or share a vision.
Students generate and explore ideas through discussion and engagement with a range of texts. Through drafting and revising, students experiment with a range of language forms and features, including imagery, rhetoric, voice, characterisation, point of view, dialogue and tone. Students consider purpose and audience to carefully shape meaning in their own imaginative, discursive and persuasive texts. They accurately apply the conventions of syntax, spelling, punctuation and grammar in their own compositions.
Through their critical and creative engagement with these texts, students reflect on the complex and recursive process of writing to further develop their knowledge and application of textual forms and features in their own sustained and cohesive compositions. They compose texts that combine different modes and mediums for a variety of purposes, audiences and contexts.
Students refine and strengthen their own skills in producing imaginative, discursive, persuasive and reflective texts.
The power of language to express ideas, perspectives and experiences
The forms, language features and stylistic choices that shape imaginative, discursive, persuasive and reflective texts
Use different processes to generate, investigate, clarify, organise, refine and present information and ideas
Use and manipulate genre in a range of modes and mediums for a range of purposes and audiences
Compose texts by changing context, perspective or point of view, and assess the effectiveness of these changes
Compose imaginative, discursive, persuasive and reflective texts that make thematic or stylistic connections with other texts and reflect particular values and perspectives, including their own
Use appropriate metalanguage to assess and reflect on the ways meaning is made in their own writing and the writing of others
Draft, reflect, edit, refine, revise and present texts for a range of purposes and audiences