Duke of Edinburgh Award

The Duke of Edinburgh Award is an internationally recognised award that engages students by providing an alternate learning environment, outside the regular classroom structure. The Award empowers students to take responsibility for themselves as they will encounter a wide range of challenges throughout the program. Students will complete the four sections during the year in order to obtain the Bronze level.

Special Occasion Foods

This course focuses on design elements and creativity in the production of special occasion foods and edible gifts. Students are challenged with a broad range of skills and are introduced to current trends in the food industry. They will be given the opportunity to learn cake decorating skills and characteristics of different icings and applications, along with how to create the delectable appearance of specialty foods, including working with chocolate.

Year 10 Biology

What are living things made of? CELLS! This unit explores: what your body is made of; how cells work together; the differences between animal and plant cells; do plants behave in a similar fashion to us? How humans and plants obtain energy for everyday functions will be investigated.

Australia and the Modern World

This unit provides a study of the history of the modern world and Australia from 1918 to the present, with an emphasis on Australia in its global context.

Mandarin

Year 7 Mandarin focuses on developing students’ capacity to understand basic sentences and questions, engage in simple conversations based on interpersonal topics and to write short texts of simple sentences. Students also learn about the culture and geography of China.

Accounting

This unit focuses on the establishment of a small business and the accounting and financial management of the business. Students are introduced to the processes of gathering and recording financial data and the reporting and analysing of accounting information by internal and external users.

Drama

If you want a fun way to get to know your fellow Year students and you enjoy the opportunity to perform, Drama is the subject for you. Students can develop acting skills and have the opportunity to rehearse and create performances with other class members.

As well as encouraging confidence and social skills, who knows, it may be the first steps of a star studded career.

Literature

Literature focuses on developing informed responses to texts, on the ideas and concerns raised in texts and on making meaning from non-print texts. Students respond to a range of texts personally, critically and creatively. While the emphasis is on students’ close engagement with language to explore texts, students also inform their understanding with knowledge of the conventions associated with different forms of text; for example poetry, prose, drama and/or non-print texts.