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CHC32015 – Certificate III in Community Services
CHC32015 – Certificate III in Community Services Auspiced by iVET RTO 40548 Overview The CHC32015 – Certificate III in Community Services program is drawn from a national training package and offe...
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Year 9 – Languages: Spanish (Semester long core)
This subject covers the study of the Spanish language, focusing on advanced vocabulary, sentence structures, and the use of past and future tenses. Key components of Year 9 Spanish include the study o...
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Year 9 – Languages: Japanese (Semester long core)
This subject covers the study of the Japanese language. It focuses on the development of vocabulary, sentences structures and more detailed Kanji. A focus on daily life, school and family are the key ...
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Year 11 & Year 12
Year 11 & 12 students at St Francis Xavier College have the option of two core programs from which they may select, with various levels of flexibility within the programs. Some students may also b...
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Year 10 – Science: Science Investigation (elective)
Science Investigation helps students prepare for VCE Science subjects by building the skills and confidence to think, investigate, and communicate like a scientist. Students investigate real-world sci...
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Year 10 – Horticulture
Food and fibre are the human-produced or harvested resources used to sustain life. They are produced in managed environments such as farms, gardens and plantations or harvested from wild populations. ...
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Year 9 – Visual Arts: Art and Identity
In Year 9 Visual Art: Art and Identity, students learn about the importance and significance of Art throughout history and in the broader context of society. They explore the theme of identity and dev...
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Year 9 – Visual Communication Design: Environment and Interactive Design
In Year 9 Visual Communication Design: Environment and Interactive, students explore the design fields of Environment and Interactive design. They learn skills in documentation drawing, using drawing ...
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Year 8 – Digital Technologies: Data and Computing
In Year 8 students step into the role of a digital problem-solver! In this course, students investigate what makes digital products and businesses successful by collecting and analysing real-world dat...
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Year 7/8 – Design Technology: Horticulture
Food and fibre are the human-produced or harvested resources used to sustain life. They are produced in managed environments such as farms, gardens and plantations or harvested from wild populations. ...
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Year 8/9 – Enrichment Program: Tech Studio
Tech Studio is a project-based course for Year 8–9 students that develops skills in Digital Technologies and Design and Technologies, with connections to the Critical and Creative Thinking capabilit...
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Year 8/9 – Enrichment Program: Laws and Society
This enrichment course helps students understand how rules and laws are made and how they work in Australian society. Students will explore the key parts of Australia’s democracy, including how laws...
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Year 9 – Arts: Drama
This subject covers drama from a variety of styles and time periods and focuses on the development of skills learned in Year 7 and 8 (for those who studied Drama). Students develop their skills in und...
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Enrichment Programs
Rationale To provide enrichment opportunities for students with passion, interest, gifts, and talents. What is an Enrichment Program? An Enrichment Program is a semester length subject focused on a pa...
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Welcome to the Senior Course Guide
IF YOU WANT TO BE THE BEST LEARNER YOU CAN BE, THEN YOU ONLY HAVE TO ASK HOW As you approach your final years at St Francis Xavier College as part of the Senior Campus in 2027, it’s an exciting time...
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How to use the junior campus guide
Welcome to your study options for Years 7, 8 and 9 in 2027 St Francis Xavier College provides students with a Catholic education that is focused on offering purposeful and deliberate pathways that mee...
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Special Programs
Individual Support Program (ISP) The individual support program (ISP) is a learning program designed to support students with identified learning needs. The subjects offered within the program are det...
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Planning Future Directions
First Get the Right Advice Choosing a pathway post-secondary can be a scary and confusing time. How do you figure out what you want to do? Where is the best place to start? Using your Morrisby Pro...
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Career and Course Information Resources
St Francis Xavier College has a well-developed careers/course resource facility to assist you in planning courses and careers. Most of these resources are available online or through the Careers O...
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Individual Program Options
For most students choosing a learning program is very straight forward. The various program options provided at each level meet their needs in relation to their learning pathway. But we know for some ...
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Planning Your Senior Program
A program is the complete list of VCE or VCE (VM) Units you will do over two or more years. Most students undertaking VCE will do at least 22 Units over the two (or three) years they are in Year 11 ...
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Vocational Education and Training (VET)
Vocational Education and Training delivered to Secondary Students (VETDSS) is an important part of many students’ senior secondary education. Students can do VETDSS in Year 10 or as part of the VCE,...
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Understanding the VCE and VCE VM
How the VCE and VCE Vocational Major Work The Victorian Certificate of Education (VCE), including the Vocational Major (VCE VM), is a senior secondary qualification that is overseen by the Victorian C...
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BSB30120 – Certificate III in Business
BSB30120 – Certificate III in Business Auspiced by iVET RTO 40548 Overview The BSB30120 – Certificate III in Business qualification reflects the varied roles of individuals across differen...
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SIT20421 – Certificate II in Cookery
SIT20421 – Certificate II in Cookery Delivered by St Francis Xavier College RTO 21286 Overview The SIT20421 Certificate II in Cookery prepares students with a limited range of food preparation a...
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SIS30122- Certificate III in Sport, Aquatics and Recreation
SIS30122- Certificate III in Sport, Aquatics and Recreation Auspiced by iVET RTO 40548 Overview The new SIS30122- Certificate III in Sport, Aquatics and Recreation equips students with comprehensive s...
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BSB20120 – Certificate II in Workplace Skills
BSB20120 – Certificate II in Workplace Skills Auspiced by iVET RTO 40548 Overview The BSB20120 – Certificate II in Workplace Skills program prepares students for entry-level positions acro...
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SIT20322 – Certificate II in Hospitality
SIT20322 – Certificate II in Hospitality Delivered by St Francis Xavier College RTO 21286 Overview This SIT20322 – Certificate II in Hospitality program is only available as a one-year pro...
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SIS20321- Certificate II in Sport Coaching
SIS20321- Certificate II in Sport Coaching (Auspiced by iVET RTO 40548) Overview The SIS20321 – Certificate II in Sport Coaching program has been developed with community sport and passionate sp...
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VCE Unit 1 and 2 Religion and Society
These 2 subjects contribute 2 further units towards the VCE VM.
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VCE VM Units 3 & 4 Personal Development Skills
VCE Vocational Major Personal Development Skills (PDS) takes an active approach to personal development, self-realisation and citizenship by exploring interrelationships between individuals and commun...
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VCE VM Units 1 & 2 Personal Development Skills
VCE Vocational Major Personal Development Skills (PDS) takes an active approach to personal development, self-realisation and citizenship by exploring interrelationships between individuals and commun...
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VCE VM Units 3 & 4 Work Related Skills
Students preparing to transition to the workforce and to further education are best placed for success when they have confidence, self-awareness and the skills to interpret relevant information and ma...
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VCE VM Units 1 & 2 Work Related Skills
VCE Vocational Major Work Related Skills (WRS) examines a range of skills, knowledge and capabilities relevant to achieving individual career and educational goals. Students will develop a broad under...
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VCE Unit 3 & 4 General Mathematics
Units 3 & 4 General Mathematics consists of two areas of study per unit which combine and extend the topics covered in Units 1 & 2 General Mathematics. Students will develop their knowledge of data an...
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VCE VM Units 3 & 4 Numeracy
In Unit 3 and 4 students further develop, enhance and extend their numeracy practices to make sense of their personal, public and vocational lives. Students extend their mathematical skills with consi...
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VCE Unit 1 & 2 General Mathematics
Units 1 and 2 General Mathematics explores topics such as Statistical Data Analysis, Discrete Mathematics and Number & Algebra with a strong focus on routine techniques and processes involving mental ...
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VCE VM Units 1 & 2 Numeracy
VCE Vocational Major Numeracy focuses on enabling students to develop and enhance their numeracy skills to make sense of their personal, public and vocational lives. Students develop mathematical skil...
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VCE VM Units 3 & 4 Literacy
VCE Vocational Major Literacy focuses on the development of the knowledge and skills required to be literate in Australia today. The key knowledge and key skills encompass a student’s ability to int...
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VCE VM Units 1 & 2 Literacy
VCE Vocational Major Literacy focuses on the development of the knowledge and skills required to be literate in Australia today. The key knowledge and key skills encompass a student’s ability to int...
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VCE Units 3 & 4 – Applied Computing (Data Analytics)
In Units 3 and 4 Applied Computing (Data Analytics), students apply the problem-solving methodology to analyse data using software tools such as database, spreadsheet and data visualisation software t...
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VCE Units 1 & 2 – Applied Computing
In Units 1 and 2 Applied Computing, students apply the stages of the problem-solving methodology to create data visualisations, with focus on how data can be used within software tools such as databas...
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VCE Units 3 & 4 – Systems Engineering
VCE Systems Engineering involves the design, production, operation, evaluation and iteration of integrated systems, which mediate and control many aspects of human experience. Integral to VCE Systems ...
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VCE Units 1 & 2 – Systems Engineering
VCE Systems Engineering involves the design, production, operation, evaluation and iteration of integrated systems, which mediate and control many aspects of human experience. Integral to VCE Systems ...
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VCE Units 3 & 4 – Product Design & Technology: Wood or Textiles
In VCE Product Design and Technologies students are designer-makers who design solutions that are innovative and ethical. As designer-makers, they learn about the design industry, teamwork and the col...
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VCE Units 1 & 2 – Product Design and Technology: Wood or Textiles
In VCE Product Design and Technologies students are designer-makers who design solutions that are innovative and ethical. As designer-makers, they learn about the design industry, teamwork and the col...
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VCE Units 3 & 4 – Food Studies
Units 3 & 4 Food Studies teaches students important life skills such as understanding how our body utilises food and what constitutes a healthy diet. They gain an understanding of many factors that in...
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VCE Units 1 & 2 – Food Studies
VCE Food Studies takes an interdisciplinary approach to the exploration of food, with an emphasis on extending food knowledge and skills, and building individual pathways to health and wellbeing throu...
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Year 10 – Systems Engineering
Year 10 Systems Engineering utilises mechanical and electro-technological principles to create a working project. Basic skills in the use of tools, equipment and machines are essential, although due t...
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Year 10 – Product Design and Technology: Wood
Students plan and manage projects from conception to realisation. They apply design and systems thinking and design processes to investigate ideas, generate and refine ideas, plan, and manage, produce...
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Year 10 – Product Design and Technology: Textiles
Student’s design and create a textiles product, usually a garment based on the needs of an end user. Students investigate and make judgements on how the characteristics and properties of materials i...
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Year 10 – Digital Technologies: Programming
This course is an introduction to object-oriented event driven computer programming. The projects in the course involve making educational and recreational computer applications. Students learn event-...
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Year 10 – Digital Technologies: General
This subject is designed to provide students with a foundational understanding of data analysis and web development. They will learn how to use Microsoft Excel to organise, analyse, visualise, and int...
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Year 10 – Food Studies
Year 10 Food Studies explores the journey of food from production to plate, encouraging students to think critically about their food choices and the impact of food on people and the planet. Students ...
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VCE Units 3 & 4 – Theatre Studies
The study of Theatre, in all its various forms, prepares students for further study in theatre production, theatre history, communication, writing, acting, direction and design at tertiary level. VCE ...
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VCE Units 1 & 2 – Theatre Studies
The study of Theatre as an ever-evolving cultural expression and critical window to society, prepares students for further study in; theatre production, theatre history, communication, marketing, prod...
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VCE Units 3 & 4 – Music Inquiry
This study is designed for students with developed interest in music, combining a variety of skills such as producing, composing/arranging, performing and investigation. Students then develop and pres...
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VCE Units 3 & 4 – Music Contemporary Performance
This study is designed for students with developed instrumental and performance skills. Students choose an instrument to focus on for the duration of the year and develop a program of works to be pres...
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VCE Units 1 & 2 – Music
This study is designed to allow students to deepen their understanding of musical language through performance and analysis. Students develop and demonstrate language, skills and knowledge to better u...
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VCE Units 3 & 4 – Drama
In VCE Drama, students tell stories, explore ideas, make sense of their worlds and communicate meaning through the practice of performance-making. The study of Drama enables students’ individual and...
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VCE Units 1 & 2 – Drama
In VCE Drama, students tell stories, explore ideas, make sense of their worlds and communicate meaning through the practice of performance-making. The study of Drama enables students’ individual and...
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VCE Units 3 & 4 – Dance
VCE Dance is designed to further develop students’ understanding and appreciation of dance that is based on innovation, creativity and dance practice across time and place. Unit 3 & 4 Dance prepares...
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VCE Units 1 & 2 – Dance
VCE Dance provides opportunities for students to explore the potential of movement as a means of creative expression and communication. In Unit 1 and 2 VCE Dance students create and perform their own ...
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VCE Units 3 & 4 – Visual Communication and Design
The Visual Communication Design study examines the ways in which designers work, while also analysing the work that they design. Students explore the Discover, Define and Develop phases of the VCD des...
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VCE Units 1 & 2 – Visual Communication and Design
This Visual Communication and Design study is intended to assist students in the understanding, production and interpretation of a range of visual communications. It involves a study of the vocabulary...
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VCE Units 3 & 4 – Media
VCE Media provides students with the opportunity to examine the media in both historical and contemporary contexts while developing skills in media design and production in a range of media forms. Stu...
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VCE Units 1 & 2 – Media
VCE Media provides students with the opportunity to develop critical and creative knowledge and skills. Media products, technologies and processes are considered from various perspectives including th...
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VCE Units 3 & 4 – Art Creative Practice
Art Creative Practice uses a Project based learning approach in the development of a body of work. Students present various stages of their Creative Practice to an audience for critique and reflect on...
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VCE Units 1 & 2 – Art Creative Practice
In the study of VCE Art Creative Practice, research and investigation inform art making. Through the study of artworks, the practices of artists and their role in society, students develop their indiv...
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Year 10 – Music Performance (Year-long)
This subject begins to expand students in their understanding of music and performance. Students develop their skills in solo and group performance, analysing musical elements that a performer has con...
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Year 10 – Drama (Year-long)
This course allows students to develop more sophisticated approaches to making and responding to drama independently, in small groups, and with their teachers and communities. They continue to explore...
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Year 10 – Dance (Year-long)
This subject will expose students to a range of artistic dance styles including Ballet, Contemporary, Jazz, Tap and Hip Hop. The course addresses technical proficiency and improvisation skills and wil...
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Year 10 – Art 3D: Ceramics and Sculpture
In this subject, students will apply the Creative Practice to develop their own three-dimensional visual responses through ceramics and sculpture. They will explore a variety of ceramic hand building ...
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Year 10 – Art 2D: Drawing, Painting and Printmaking
Students investigate and research a variety of traditional, historical, stylistic, and cultural artworks related to their art forms. They explore different materials and techniques inspired by their r...
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Year 10 – Visual Communication Design
Visual Communication and Design conveys ideas and information to an audience through visual language. In Visual Communication Design, students develop conceptual and aesthetic understandings about des...
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Year 10 – Media Arts
This subject covers key developments in the past 200-year history of media communication. It focuses on the development of skills in the use of relevant media technologies and processes. Through the s...
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VCE Units 3 & 4 – Health and Human Development
VCE Health and Human Development gives students the opportunity to develop skills and knowledge in Australia’s health and the variations that occur in different population groups and different count...
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VCE Units 1 & 2 – Health and Human Development
The study of VCE Health and Human Development provides students with the skills and knowledge to make informed decisions about their own health and recognise the role of health in society. It allows t...
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VCE Units 3 & 4 – Physical Education
The study of VCE Physical Education equips students with the appropriate knowledge and skills to plan, develop and maintain their involvement in physical activity, sport and exercise across their life...
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VCE Units 1 & 2 – Physical Education
The study of VCE Physical Education enables students to develop a practical understanding of the theoretical foundations of performance and participation in physical activity. Through engagement in ph...
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Year 10 – Fitness
Students will learn about physical fitness including muscular-skeletal systems and anatomy, fitness components and training methods for improvement of physical fitness.
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Year 10 – Health and PE
During the course, students will be able to design, evaluate and implement their own physical activity programs for lifelong participation in physical activity. Students will be required to investigat...
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Year 10 – Health
Year 10 Health provides a wide variety of studies and practices to enable the student to explore and develop skills relating to individual and community health outcomes, including competencies relatin...
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VCE Units 3 & 4 – Languages: Spanish
Learning Spanish broadens personal, social, and career opportunities, enabling engagement with Spanish-speaking communities globally. With around 500 million speakers, it is a major international lang...
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VCE Units 1 & 2 – Languages: Spanish
VCE Spanish emphasises student participation in interpersonal communication, interpretation, and presentation on diverse topics. Students enhance their listening, speaking, reading, writing, and viewi...
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VCE Units 3 & 4 – Languages: Japanese
The study of Languages contributes to the overall education of students, most particularly in communication. Students will develop their skills in listening, reading, viewing, speaking, and writing Ja...
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VCE Units 1 & 2 – Languages: Japanese
The study of Languages contributes to the overall education of students, most particularly in communication. Students will develop their skills in listening, reading, viewing, speaking, and writing Ja...
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Year 10 – Languages: Spanish
Learning Spanish broadens students’ horizons by opening up personal, social, cultural and future employment opportunities in an increasingly interconnected world. This course develops students’ li...
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Year 10 – Languages: Japanese
Learning languages broadens students’ horizons about the personal, social, cultural and employment opportunities that are available in an increasingly interconnected and interdependent world. To pro...
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VCE Units 3 & 4 – Legal Studies
VCE Legal Studies enables students to appreciate the institutions and principles that are essential to the Australian legal system. Students develop an understanding of the rule of law, lawmakers, leg...
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VCE Units 1 & 2 – Legal Studies
VCE Legal Studies examines the institutions and principles that are essential to the Australian legal system. Students develop an understanding of the rule of law, lawmakers, legal institutions, the p...
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VCE Units 3 & 4 – Philosophy
VCE Philosophy contains a broad introduction to western philosophy and its methods of inquiry. It explores themes and debates within metaphysics, epistemology (philosophy of knowledge) and value theor...
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VCE Units 1 & 2 – Philosophy
Philosophy is the activity of identifying and considering central, contestable ideas and developing good reasons for holding one position rather than another. It involves the rigorous testing of ideas...
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VCE Units 3 & 4 – Economics
Economics examines the role of individuals, businesses, governments, and other organisations in the decision making about the allocation of resources, the production of goods and services and the affe...
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VCE Units 1 & 2 – Economics
Economics is a social science that explores the way humans behave and evaluates the decisions we make to meet the needs and wants of society. It looks at how and why consumers, businesses, governments...
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VCE Units 3 & 4 – Business Management
The study of Business Management leads to opportunities across all facets of the business and management field such as small business owner, project manager or executive manager. Further study can lea...
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VCE Units 1 & 2 – Business Management
Units 1 and 2 Business Management examines the ways businesses manage resources to achieve objectives, such as to make a profit or to increase market share. The key areas of focus are planning and est...
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VCE Units 3 & 4 – Accounting
Units 3 & 4 Accounting students develop their understanding of the accounting processes for a trading business and consider the effect of decisions made on the performance of the business. Students us...
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VCE Units 1 & 2 – Accounting
Units 1 & 2 Accounting establishes the process for sole proprietors operating a service and trading business, with a focus on the establishment of a business and the role of accounting in the determin...
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VCE Units 3 & 4 – Geography
VCE Geography enables students to examine natural and human phenomena, how and why they change, their interconnections and the patterns they form across the Earth’s surface. In doing so, they develo...
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VCE Units 1 & 2 – Geography
VCE Geography enables students to examine natural and human phenomena, how and why they change, their interconnections and the patterns they form across the Earth’s surface. In doing so, they develo...
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VCE Units 3 & 4 – History: Revolutions
VCE History: Revolutions examines the causes and consequences of conflict and change in the modern era. Students of VCE History: Revolutions develop social, political, economic and cultural understand...
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VCE Units 1 & 2 – Modern History
VCE Modern History examines the causes and consequences of conflict and change in the modern era. VCE Modern History assists students to understand themselves, others, and the contemporary world, and ...
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VCE Units 3 & 4 – Ancient History
History introduces students to structured inquiry into the human actions, forces and conditions that have shaped the past and present. VCE History enables students to explore a variety of eras and per...
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VCE Units 1 & 2 – Ancient History
History introduces students to structured inquiry into the human actions, forces and conditions that have shaped the past and present. VCE History enables students to explore a variety of eras and per...
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Year 10 – Humanities: Geography
In this Unit students study Environmental Change and Management and the Geographies of Human Wellbeing. Geography is a subject that combines the natural sciences, social sciences, and humanities to bu...
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Year 10 – Humanities: Business and Economics
In this study students can build their understanding of how the Australian Economy operates, considering the connection between the Economy and living standards. They will also explore financial decis...
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Year 10 Humanities: Politics and Legal Studies
This subject focuses on the concept of citizenship, and the political and legal systems that will enable students to become active and informed citizens of contemporary Australian society, as well as ...
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Year 10 Humanities: History – Fight for your rights
The struggle for rights and freedoms has spanned centuries, cultures, and communities. Exploring past experiences of the struggle for rights and freedoms provides an insight into one of the most defin...
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Year 10 Humanities: History – New world rising
This subject covers the dramatic transformations of the 20th century, focusing on the global impact of World War II and the emergence of a globalised world. Students will investigate the causes, event...
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VCE Units 3 & 4 – Psychology
VCE Psychology explores the complex interactions between biological, psychological, and social factors that influence human thought, emotions, and behaviour. Students apply their learning to everyday ...
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VCE Units 1 & 2 – Psychology
Psychology is a discipline that seeks to describe, explain, understand, and predict human behaviour and mental processes. It includes many sub-fields of study that explore and seek to better understan...
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VCE Units 3 & 4 – Physics
While much scientific understanding in physics has stood the test of time, many other areas continue to evolve. In undertaking this study, students develop their understanding of the roles of careful ...
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VCE Units 1 & 2 – Physics
The study of Physics involves investigating, understanding, and explaining the behaviour of physical phenomena in the Universe. Conceptual understanding is developed as students study topics including...
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VCE Units 3 & 4 – Environmental Science
Environmental science is an interdisciplinary, investigative science that explores the interactions and interconnectedness between humans and their environments and analyses the functions of both livi...
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Year 12: VCE Unit 1 Philosophy
Year 12: VCE Unit 1 Philosophy This VCE Unit 1 course for Year 12 students called ‘Existence, Knowledge and Reasoning’ will explore concepts of metaphysics, epistemology and philosophical inquiry ...
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VCE Units 1 & 2 – Environmental Science
Earth is understood as a set of four interrelated systems: the atmosphere, the biosphere, the hydrosphere and the lithosphere. This study explores how the relationships between these systems produce n...
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VCE Units 3 & 4 – Chemistry
In this unit students investigate the chemical production of energy and materials. They explore how innovation, design and sustainability principles and concepts can be applied to produce energy and m...
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VCE Units 1 & 2 – Chemistry
In this unit students investigate the chemical properties of a range of materials including covalent compounds, metals, ionic compounds, and polymers. They conduct practical investigations involving t...
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VCE Units 3 & 4 – Biology
VCE Biology enables students to investigate the processes involved in sustaining life at cellular, system, species, and ecosystem levels. Students develop an understanding that, in the dynamic and int...
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VCE Units 1 & 2 – Biology
The study of Biology explores the diversity of life as it has evolved and changed over time and considers how living organisms function and interact. It explores the processes of life, from the molecu...
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Year 10 – Science
Science is a dynamic, collaborative and creative human endeavour arising from our curiosity and desire to make sense of our world. Through science, we explore the unknown, investigate universal phenom...
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Year 10 – Science: Psychology (elective)
Psychology is the science that seeks to describe, explain, understand, and predict human behaviour and mental processes. Students explore the scope of Psychology, its specialised fields of study and i...
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VCE Units 3 & 4 – Specialist Mathematics
Specialist Mathematics is a course designed to extend students’ mathematical knowledge and skills. This subject provides a pathway for students intending to pursue careers in Science, Mathematics or...
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VCE Units 1 & 2 – Specialist Mathematics
Specialist Mathematics is a course designed to challenge students, complement, and consolidate material covered in Mathematical Methods 1 & 2. This study should prepare them for the more demanding Uni...
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VCE Units 3 & 4 – Mathematical Methods
Units 3 & 4 Mathematical Methods extend the introductory study from Units 1 & 2 of simple elementary functions, to include combinations of these functions, algebra, calculus, probability and statistic...
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VCE Units 1 & 2 – Mathematical Methods
Units 1 & 2 Mathematical Methods comprises of a study of Functions and Graphs, Algebra, Probability and Calculus. These areas of study are explored in both units of Mathematical Methods, with a balanc...
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VCE Unit 3 & 4 – General Mathematics
General Mathematics Units 3 and 4 consists of two areas of study per unit which combine and extend the topics covered in Units 1 and 2 General Mathematics. Students will develop their knowledge of dat...
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VCE Units 1 & 2 – General Mathematics
General Mathematics Units 1 and 2 cater for a range of student interests and provides preparation for the study of VCE General Mathematics at the Units 3 and 4 level. In Units 1 and 2, students are ex...
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VCE Units 3 & 4 – Foundation Mathematics
Foundation Mathematics Units 3 and 4 provide students with the mathematical knowledge, skills and understanding to solve problems in real contexts for a range of workplace, personal, further learning,...
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VCE Units 1 & 2 – Foundation Mathematics
Foundation Mathematics Units 1 and 2 provide students with the mathematical knowledge, skills, and understanding to solve problems in real contexts for a range of workplace, personal, further learning...
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Year 10 – Advanced Mathematics
Students will extend their existing knowledge of their F – 10 Mathematics Curriculum by completing an in-depth exploration of the Mathematics 2.0 Victorian Curriculum 10A content. Students will deve...
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Year 10 – Core Mathematics
Year 10 Mathematics students will continue to develop and consolidate their F – 10 Mathematics Curriculum knowledge and skills in a variety of mathematical concepts from the Mathematics 2.0 Victoria...
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VCE Units 3 & 4 – Literature
VCE Literature aims to foster students’ enjoyment and appreciation of the artistic and aesthetic merits of stories and storytelling and enables students to participate more fully in the cultural con...
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VCE Units 1 & 2 – Literature
VCE Literature aims to foster students’ enjoyment and appreciation of the artistic and aesthetic merits of stories and storytelling and enables students to participate more fully in the cultural con...
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VCE Units 1 & 2 – Foundation English
Foundation English enables students to improve their skills in comprehending and responding to a variety of texts, and to enhance their overall communication skills. The study is designed for students...
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VCE Units 3 & 4 – English Language
VCE English Language explores the ways in which language is used by individuals and groups and reflects our thinking and values. Informed by the discipline of linguistics, the study examines a range o...
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VCE Units 1 & 2 – English Language
VCE English Language is the study of the functions of spoken and written language for a range of purposes. Students analyse language from a linguistics perspective, examining how language is rule-gove...
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VCE Units 3 & 4 – English / English as an Additional Language (EAL)
Units 3 & 4 English/EAL continues to develop and seeks to consolidate the knowledge and skills students have acquired and explored through VCE English in the key discipline concepts of language, liter...
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VCE Units 1 & 2 – English / English as an Additional Language (EAL)
Units 1 & 2 English/EAL builds on the learning established through VC English in the key discipline concepts of language, literature and literacy, and the language modes of listening, speaking, readin...
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Year 10 – Literacy Skills (elective)
Year 10 Literacy Skills (Elective) Overview Literacy Skills is a subject that works in tandem with English to refine students’ proficiency in grammar, punctuation, and vocabulary. By cultivating...
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Year 10 – Advanced English
The aim of the course is to foster and extend student engagement in all areas of senior English studies through a vigorous and stimulating curriculum that draws upon the studies of English, English La...
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Year 10 – English as an Additional Language
The course aims to address the needs of students for whom English is an additional language through a vigorous curriculum which both prepares students for VCE English and VCE English As an Additional ...
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Year 10 – English
In Year 10 English students will develop and justify their own interpretation of texts. They do this using evidence to support their view, explaining different viewpoints, attitudes, and perspectives ...
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VCE Units 3 & 4 – Religion and Society
Unit 3 & 4 Religion and Society is the continuation of the skills and content described in Unit 1 & 2 Religion and Society. The study begins the process of a deeper examination of the fundamental beli...
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VCE Units 1 & 2 – Religion and Society
Religion and Society is the study of religions which are defined as forms of beliefs and practices which allow human beings to express their sense of ultimate reality. The study encourages students to...
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VCE Unit 1 – Existence, Knowledge and Reasoning
This VCE Unit 1 course for Year 12 students called ‘Existence, Knowledge and Reasoning’ will explore concepts of metaphysics, epistemology and philosophical inquiry (Outcomes 1-3) and will enable ...
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Year 10/11/12 Cantabile (by application)
Year 10/11/12 Cantabile (by application) Cantabile is a non-auditioned choir that works to lead the College in liturgical celebrations. Hymns and songs are chosen that reflect the CEO Sale Diocese cur...
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Year 10 – 12 Youth Ministry
Year 10 – 12 Youth Ministry Overview The Year 10 – 12 Youth Ministry program support students in finding ways to put faith into action. These courses mirror content that that is explored in the Co...
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Year 10 – 12 Religious Education
Year 10 – 12 Religious Education Overview Through an Inquiry-based learning model, students across the senior Religious Education program will explore the Gospel of the year. Using the lens of s...
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Senior Vocational Education and Training (VET)
The College delivers a range of VET courses on campus. These courses are accessible by students in Years 10-12 who are enrolled in Year 10 or VCE at Year 11 and 12. Courses at Year 10 run for one year...
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Senior VCE Vocational Major
The VCE VM comprises of 4 core subjects, these are offered as Unit 1 & 2 in Year 11 and Unit 3 & 4 in Year 12. VCE VM Literacy enables students to: develop their everyday literacy skills throu...
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Senior Technologies
The Technologies provide a framework for students to learn how to use technologies to create innovative solutions that meet current and future needs. Students are encouraged to make decisions about th...
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Senior The Arts
The Arts enable students to develop their creative and expressive capacities by learning about the different practices, disciplines and traditions that have shaped the expression of culture locally, n...
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Senior Health and PE
Health and Physical Education focuses on students enhancing their own and others’ health, safety, wellbeing, and physical activity participation in varied and changing contexts. Research in fields...
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Senior Languages
Learning languages in addition to English extends students’ literacy repertoires and their capacity to communicate. It strengthens students’ understanding of the nature of language, culture, a...
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Senior Humanities
The Humanities provide a framework for students to examine the complex processes that have shaped the modern world and to investigate responses to different challenges including people’s interconnec...
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Senior Science
Science provides a way of answering interesting and important questions about the biological, physical, and technological world. Science is a dynamic, collaborative, and creative human endeavour arisi...
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Senior Mathematics
Mathematics provides students with access to important mathematical ideas, knowledge, and skills that they will draw on in their personal and work lives. The curriculum also provides students, as life...
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Senior English
The study of English is central to the learning and development of all young Australians. It helps create confident communicators, imaginative thinkers, and informed citizens. It is through the study ...
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Senior Religious Education
The College provides a broad faith-based Religious Education program for our students that is aligned with the Sale Diocese Religious Education Curriculum “To Live in Christ Jesus.” Through the Re...
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Year 9 – Humanities
The Humanities course includes four main areas of study: Geography, Business and Economics, History and Civics and Citizenship. The study of Humanities will encourage and challenge students to gain th...
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Year 9
Students experience a learning program which is broad and allows for a large degree of choice with elective subjects included. The Religious Education learning program follows the curriculum structure...
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Year 9 – Languages: Spanish
This subject covers the study of the Spanish language, focusing on advanced vocabulary, sentence structures, and the use of past and future tenses. Key components of Year 9 Spanish include the study o...
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Year 9 – Languages: Japanese (Year Long Elective)
This subject covers the study of the Japanese language. It focuses on the development of vocabulary, sentences structures and more detailed Kanji. A focus on daily life, school and family are the key ...
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Year 9 – Languages: Arabic
Learners understand and use features of the Arabic sound and writing systems and make connections between spoken and written texts. They use appropriate pronunciation and intonation when communicating...
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Year 8/9 – Enrichment Program: Visual Arts
Visual Arts Enrichment Program is an extension opportunity for students who have excelled in Visual Arts subjects and wish to strengthen and enhance their abilities. In the Visual Arts Enrichment Prog...
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Year 8/9 – Enrichment Program: STEM
The aim of the STEM Enrichment Program (EP) is to further develop students’ inquiry, analytical, collaborative, and planning skills, while providing opportunities to engage with a range of technolog...
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Year 8/9 – Enrichment Program: Health Sciences
The aim of the course is to further develop knowledge and skills within the health science domain. This includes concepts and practical elements from science and physical education, and key analytical...
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Year 8/9 – Enrichment Program: From Page to Stage (Performing Arts)
The course provides students the opportunity to learn about the production process. From Page to Stage guides students through the various stages of taking an inspiration, existing work or other stimu...
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Year 8/9 – Enrichment Program: Literature
The aim of the Literature EP is to allow students the opportunity to complete an in-depth study of a range of texts including myths, legends, fairytales and poetry. The course provides students with n...
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Year 8/9 – Enrichment Program: Sport and Fitness (General)
The aim of the course is to further develop sporting knowledge and skills by developing a deeper understanding of training practices, coaching strategies, tactical awareness and recovery. The course p...
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Year 8/9 – Enrichment Program: Basketball
Using basketball as a key focus, students will have the opportunity to develop knowledge and skills across all facets of the game. This will include rule knowledge, individual skill development, team ...
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Year 9 – Digital Technologies: Robotics
In Year 9 Robotics, students take a deeper dive into the mechanical and computational engineering behind robotics. Working in teams, they design, construct, and program robots capable of transporting ...
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Year 9 – Digital Technologies: Digital Systems
In this Year 9 Digital Systems course, students consolidate their systems thinking by exploring how hardware and software components interact within networking architecture to manage, control, and sec...
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Year 9 – Digital Technologies: Creative Digital Solutions
Creative Digital Solutions is a practical and design-focused Year 9 Digital Technologies course where students create digital media, design user experiences and build interactive digital solutions. St...
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Year 9 – Design Technology: Materials Technology
In this subject, students will refresh their learning from Years 7 or 8 to be inducted and receive training in working safely with tools, machinery and workshop processes. Students will consider a des...
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Year 9 – Design Technology: Horticulture
Food and fibre are the human-produced or harvested resources used to sustain life. They are produced in managed environments such as farms, gardens and plantations or harvested from wild populations. ...
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Year 9 – Design Technology: Food Technology
Students learn to work safely and hygienically in the kitchen whilst developing their food preparation skills. As they prepare a variety of food products, emphasis is on making good food choices. Stud...
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Year 9 – Design Technology: Textiles
Textiles supports students to develop skills specific to the planning and production of items constructed of fabric and fibres. Students will investigate and make judgements on how the characteristics...
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Year 8 – Visual Communication Design: Product Design and Marketing
In Year 8 Visual Communication Design: Product Design and Marketing, students explore the design fields of Object and Communication design. They learn skills in documentation drawing, using drawing bo...
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Year 8 – Visual Arts: Art and Culture
In Year 8 Visual Art: Art and Culture, students investigate culturally responsive approaches to art making and develop their own ideas independently and collaboratively by research, experimentation, a...
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Year 8 and 9 – Arts: Music Performance
The Music curriculum aims to build the confidence of our students to be creative, innovative, thoughtful, skilful, and informed musicians. Through active participation, students develop skills to list...
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Year 9 – Arts: 3D Modelling and Animation
Students develop an understanding of basic 3D modelling and animation techniques through a series of learning modules. Topics studied include understanding 3D primitives, low polygon modelling, lighti...
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Year 8 – Arts: Drama
This subject covers drama from a variety of styles and time periods and focuses on the development of skills learned in Year 7 (for those who studied Drama). Students develop their skills in understan...
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Year 9 – Arts: Dance
This subject covers cultural dance and its influence on modern Australian dance styles. Through the study of different cultural dances, students develop their skills in performing, analysing, and chor...
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Year 8/9 – Religious Education: Cantabile
In Year 8/9 Cantabile, students will be involved in theory and practical classes, building their knowledge on servant leadership through music ministry in the school and wider community. The concepts ...
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Year 8/9 – Religious Education:Youth Ministry
In Year 8/9 Youth Ministry, students will explore the foundations of Christian leadership through active participation in ministry-related activities. They will engage with and lead practical aspects ...
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Year 8/9 – Enrichment Program: Inquiry Based Learning Project
Inquiry Based Learning is an opportunity for students to develop 21st century skills in collaborative and supportive environments. Students will study this subject for one semester. Inquiry Based Lear...
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Year 9 – Health and Physical Education
In Year 9 Health and Physical Education, students take part in a wide range of activities designed to build fundamental movement skills, including strength balance, coordination and teamwork. The prog...
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Year 9 – Science
In Year 9 Science, student learning focus is on explaining phenomena involving science and its applications. Students consider both classic and contemporary science contexts to explain the operation o...
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Year 9 – Advanced Mathematics
Year 9 students who demonstrate achievement above the expected standard may be invited to participate in the Advanced Mathematics course. This program is designed to extend and accelerate learning in ...
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Year 9 – Mathematics
Year 9 students continue to develop and consolidate their numeracy skills across a range of mathematical concepts from the Victorian Curriculum. They engage with key Year 9 Mathematics content while a...
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Year 9 – English
Year 9 English curriculum is built around the three interrelated strands of Language, Literature and Literacy. Together the strands focus on developing students’ knowledge, understanding and skills ...
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Year 9 – Religious Education
In Year 9 Religious Education, students will examine their role in wider society and the world. By studying a variety of social justice issues, students will explore how the Catholic Tradition challen...
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Year 8 – Languages: Spanish
Students work both collaboratively and independently in Spanish, using modelled and rehearsed language to express meaning and interact with others. Students build their knowledge of Spanish spelling c...
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Year 8 – Languages: Japanese
This subject covers the study of the Japanese language. It focuses on the development of basic vocabulary, sentences patterns and all three alphabets. A focus on hobbies, entertainment and travel are ...
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Year 8 – Humanities
Humanities includes Geography, Business and Economics, History and Civics and Citizenship. Humanities provides a framework for students to examine the complex processes that have shaped the modern wor...
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Year 8 – Health and Physical Education
In Year 8 Health and Physical Education, students take part in a wide range of activities designed to build fundamental movement skills, including strength balance, coordination and teamwork. The prog...
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Year 8 – Science
During Year 8 Science, students understand how new evidence can change scientific knowledge. They discuss how diverse teams develop scientific knowledge and consider ethical, environmental, social, an...
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Year 8 – Advanced Mathematics
Year 8 students who demonstrate achievement above the expected standard may be invited to participate in the Advanced Mathematics course. This program is designed to extend and accelerate learning in ...
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Year 8 – Mathematics
Year 8 students continue to develop and consolidate their numeracy skills across a range of mathematical concepts from the Victorian Curriculum. Students engage with key Year 8 Mathematical concepts w...
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Year 8 – English
In Year 8 English, students communicate with a range of audiences through many contexts. They look at the Australian Story and how they fit in. Students study a range of Literary texts. These texts ex...
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Year 8 – Religious Education
In Year 8 Religious Education, students will explore and articulate the colleges Catholic Identity through the lenses of our school mission, patron Saints and community. Students will deepen their und...
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Year 8
Students experience a learning program which is broad but allowing for some choice with elective subjects included. The Religious Education learning program follows the curriculum structure set by the...
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Year 7/8 – Design Technology: Materials Technology
In this subject, students will learn about working safely in a workshop using different tools and machinery. They will be introduced to the ‘Design Process’ and use these skills to create a produc...
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Year 7/8 – Design Technology: Textiles
Textiles teaches students design and fabric construction skills. By following the design process, students apply their newly learned hand and machine sewing skills in a creative manner to produce a te...
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Year 7/8 – Design Technology: Food Studies
Food studies introduces students to the life skills specific to the preparation and production of food products based upon the healthy eating food models recommended by the Australian Government. Stud...
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Year 7 – Arts: Visual Arts
In Year 7 Art and Design, students explore a variety of media, materials and processes including rendering, watercolour painting and design drawing. They learn to identify and apply the Elements and P...
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Year 7 – Arts: Drama
This course introduces students to Drama and the fundamental skills required for the creation and presentation of performances. Students will develop their collaborative skills, working in groups to d...
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Year 7 – Languages: Spanish
Spanish is spoken by approximately 500 million people across the world. Spanish is a Romance language, derived from Latin, and so has many connections with English. Knowledge of Spanish can facilitate...
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Year 7 – Languages: Japanese
This subject covers the study of the Japanese language. It focuses on the development of basic vocabulary, sentence patterns and alphabets. Through the study of Japanese language, students develop the...
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Year 7 – Digital Technologies
Year 7 Digital Technologies course introduces students to the foundations of digital systems, programming, data, and cybersecurity. Through hands-on learning with the BBC Micro:bit, students design an...
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Year 7 – Arts: Music
Students develop skills to create, rehearse and perform music in both a solo and ensemble setting, as well as develop an understanding of the various elements of music and how to manipulate them to cr...
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Year 7 – Humanities
Students study a Humanities program that consists of Geography, Economics and Business, Civics and Citizenship, and History. This combination of subjects will challenge students to gain the knowledge ...
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Year 7 – Health and Physical Education
In Year 7 Health and Physical Education, students take part in a wide range of activities designed to build fundamental movement skills, including strength balance, coordination and teamwork. The prog...
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Year 7 – Science
During Year 7 Science students understand how new evidence can change scientific knowledge. They discuss how diverse teams develop scientific knowledge and consider ethical, environmental, social, and...
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Year 7 – Mathematics
Year 7 students continue to develop and consolidate their numeracy skills across a range of mathematical concepts from the Victorian Curriculum. Students engage with key Year 7 Mathematical concepts w...
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Junior Design Technologies
The Technologies provide a framework for students to learn how to use technologies to create innovative solutions that meet current and future needs. Students are encouraged to make decisions about th...
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Junior Digital Technologies
Digital Technologies empowers students to shape change by influencing how contemporary and emerging information systems and practices are applied to meet current and future needs. A deep knowledge and...
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Junior The Arts
The Arts enable students to develop their creative and expressive capacities by learning about the different practices, disciplines and traditions that have shaped the expression of culture locally, n...
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Junior Health and PE
Health and Physical Education focuses on students enhancing their own and others’ health, safety, wellbeing, and physical activity participation in varied and changing contexts. Research in fields...
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Junior Languages
Learning languages in addition to English extends students’ literacy repertoires and their capacity to communicate. It strengthens students’ understanding of the nature of language, culture, and t...
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Junior Humanities
The Humanities provide a framework for students to examine the complex processes that have shaped the modern world and to investigate responses to different challenges including people’s interconnec...
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Junior Science
Science provides a way of answering interesting and important questions about the biological, physical, and technological world. Science is a dynamic, collaborative, and creative human endeavour arisi...
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Junior Mathematics
Mathematics provides students with access to important mathematical ideas, knowledge, and skills that they will draw on in their personal and work lives. The curriculum also provides students, as life...
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Junior Religious Education
The College provides a broad faith-based Religious Education program for our students that is aligned with the Sale Diocese Religious Education Curriculum “To Live in Christ Jesus.” Through the Re...
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Year 7 – Religious Education
In Year 7 Religious Education, students are welcomed as members of a Catholic community. “I am the way, the truth and the life” (John 14:6) – our college mission calls us to come to know Jesus a...
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Junior English
The study of English is central to the learning and development of all young Australians. It helps create confident communicators, imaginative thinkers, and informed citizens. It is through the study ...
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Year 7 – English
The study of English is central to the learning and development of all young Australians. It helps create confident communicators, imaginative thinkers, and informed citizens. It is through the study ...
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Year 10
The Year 10 Curriculum is based on the Victorian F-10 Curriculum 2.0. Students experience a targeted program with increased flexibility and choice built in. The Religious Education learning program fo...
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Year 7
Students experience the full breadth of the Victorian Curriculum in Year 7 with some limited choice. The Religious Education learning program follows the curriculum structure set by the Diocese of Sal...