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
Year 12
For students studying English Life Skills, the focus area Narrative and human experiences provides opportunities to explore narratives that share people’s experiences. Students explore how characters respond to events and the relationships between characters. They explore how storytelling is used to share moments of challenge and growth. Selected texts can take a range of forms and should be selected based on students’ interest and needs. Students create personal responses to the characters’ experiences in texts.
The content below aligns to the content of the focus area Narrative and human experiences in English Studies 11–12 and has been provided as a suggestion only. Further content can also be used to address this focus area and meet the individual needs of students as appropriate.
Use reading, viewing or listening strategies to locate and extract information and ideas
Identify preferred reading strategies that improve understanding and engagement
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
Identify personally relevant and important themes presented in texts
Explore how different characters in texts respond to a particular theme or issue
Explore different perspectives on a particular topic, theme or event
Understand how culture and identity influence personal responses to texts
Respond to a text by providing a personal opinion or perspective
Identify how a personal opinion can be changed in response to a text
Identify how texts can represent a particular time or event
Recognise that an author’s personal experiences can shape meaning in a text
Recognise that audience responses to texts can vary
Identify that texts represent a diverse range of lived experiences or cultural perspectives
Recognise how context influences audience, ideas and attitudes
Use strategies to organise information and make connections between ideas in texts
Understand the impact of texts on personal understanding of the world
Compose texts that offer personal responses to a chosen text
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
Use scaffolding to plan compositions
Select editing techniques or tools to enhance clarity and meaning in texts