11–12English Studies 11–12 Syllabus
The new English Studies 11–12 Syllabus (2024) is to be implemented from 2026.
2025
- Plan and prepare to teach the new syllabus
2026, Term 1
- Start teaching new syllabus for Year 11
- Start implementing new Year 11 school-based assessment requirements
- Continue to teach the English Studies Stage 6 Syllabus (2017) for Year 12
2026, Term 4
- Start teaching new syllabus for Year 12
- Start implementing new Year 12 school-based assessment requirements
2027
- First HSC examination for new syllabus
Content
Life Skills
For students studying English Life Skills, the elective Part of a family provides opportunities to develop an understanding of ways language and texts are used to represent ideas of family. They explore their own place in their family structures, recognising the impact this has on their identity. Students may engage with informative and imaginative texts, such as novels, films, poetry, feature articles or documentaries, to develop an understanding of the diversity of family structures, human relationships or other topics related to family life.
The content below aligns to the content of the Elective focus areas in English Studies 11–12 and has been provided as a suggestion only. Further content can also be used to address these focus areas and meet the individual needs of students as appropriate.
Engage with real-world texts to gain information
Engage with texts for interest or enjoyment
Engage with a broadening range of texts
Share preferences and new understandings
Identify preferred reading strategies that improve understanding and engagement
Use reading, viewing or listening strategies to locate and extract information and ideas
Use strategies to organise information and make connections between ideas in texts
Recognise how information is conveyed in texts
Recognise ways language forms, features or structures can create meaning in a text
Recognise ways language forms and features change according to purpose and audience
Identify the message, values or experiences in a text
Respond to a text by providing a personal opinion or perspective
Identify that texts represent a diverse range of lived experiences or cultural perspectives
Recognise how context influences audience, ideas and attitudes
Recognise connections between ideas and features within texts
Use strategies to organise information and make connections between ideas in texts
Compose texts for different purposes and audiences using appropriate form, language or visual features to communicate, including workplace and real-life texts
Use language forms or structures to express ideas
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
Set and monitor personal goals to improve composition skills
Identify personal barriers to composing texts and strategies to overcome these
Reflect on own final composition