Secondary Studies

The Secondary Studies faculty works across the school to support student learning.

 Learning and Support

Learning and Support Teachers and School Learning and Support Officers support teachers and students within the classroom; and provide targeted individualised support outside the classroom, to support students reach their potential.

 The team particularly supports students with disability, First Nations students, students from a non-English speaking background, and students living in Out of Home Care. The Learning and Support team works collaboratively with the wellbeing team, teaching and learning team, careers advisor, Aboriginal Education Teacher, Year 11 and 12 Hub teacher, classroom teachers and senior executive to plan and implement the supports needed for all students with a range of learning needs.

 The faculty facilitates the Teacher Assisted Study Centre (TASC) on Thursday afternoons in the library from 2-3pm. TASC is a homework assistance program with teachers across all faculties volunteering their time to provide one-on-one or small group support for students with assessments, exam revision, or clarifying missed classwork or difficult concepts/content. The permission note for TASC can be found on the school website or via School Bytes. In addition to TASC, Learning and Support staff are available before school, at recess and lunch in the library for students requesting help.  

 Literacy and Numeracy

All students in Stage 4 benefit from dedicated literacy and numeracy lessons that seek to improve a student’s ability to learn at school across all subject areas and to engage productively in society.

 In the Australian Curriculum, students become literate as they develop the knowledge, skills and dispositions to interpret and use language confidently for learning and communicating in and out of school and for participating effectively in society. Literacy involves students listening to, reading, viewing, speaking, writing and creating oral, print, visual and digital texts, and using and modifying language for different purposes in a range of contexts. Success in any learning area depends on being able to use the significant, identifiable and distinctive literacy that is important for learning and representative of the content of that learning area (ACARA, 2016).

 In the Australian Curriculum, students become numerate as they develop the knowledge and skills to use mathematics confidently across learning areas at school and in their lives more broadly. The Australian Curriculum states: Numeracy encompasses the knowledge, skills, behaviours and dispositions that students need to use mathematics in a wide range of situations. It involves students recognising and understanding the role of mathematics in the world and having the dispositions and capacities to use mathematical knowledge and skills purposefully (ACARA, 2017).

 Standardised Testing

Secondary Studies is responsible for administering standardised testing required by the Department of Education, including NAPLAN (Years 7 and 9) and HSC Minimum Standards (Year 10-12). The team is also responsible for submitting applications to NESA for HSC Disability Provisions.

 Staff

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Jo Bui – Relieving Head Teacher