English

Language skills are the key to communicating and understanding. In English classes students will expand and strengthen their literacy skills to ensure they can effectively communicate their own ideas, understand the ideas of others, and communicate their position. Students will study a range of texts including novels, poems, film, short stories, fiction and nonfiction, and multimedia texts. This immersion in texts supports students to shape their own worldview. Students will explore what matters to them as they place texts in contemporary contexts and discover how literature opens new ways of understanding, knowing, and communicating. English helps students to think about complex ideas from multiple perspectives, which is a vital skill in our global world. We also offer an English elective for years 9 and 10, for students to extend their learning.