The aim of the English Faculty at Kalamunda Senior High School is to provide an innovative and dynamic environment in which students of all abilities and interests can express themselves clearly and rationally. The Faculty is committed to enabling all students to reach their potential as critical and creative thinkers, thereby giving them the skills and strategies to engage with the complexities of society and culture.
As critical and creative thinkers, the Faculty provides students with ample opportunities to learn and practice the essential functional and critical literacy skills needed to cope with the challenges of the modern world.
In order to meet this aim, the Faculty is committed to providing a supportive environment to students of all abilities. It encourages both collaborative and independent thinking and learning. This reflects the team ethos that the staff of the Faculty embody.

 

 

The Upper School curriculum focuses on the New Courses of Study that have been effectively implemented across the English area. Students are exposed to a modern and dynamic curriculum that focuses on academic achievement and personal development of the individual student. Courses offered in Year 11 and 12 are the latest and most recently updated from the Curriculum Council.

 

 

The Middle and Lower School courses reflect the dynamic changes in the English curriculum. Students are taught using the curriculum frameworks and in 2009 students will continue to develop their skills and understandings in the four English Outcomes: Listening and Speaking, Viewing, Reading and Writing. They will do this through the aspects of Understanding Language, Contextual Understanding (Attitudes, values and beliefs), Conventions and Processes and Strategies. Furthermore it is envisaged students will be given the opportunity to undertake units from the Course of Study in English in Year 11 and 12 commensurate with their levels of achievement.

 

The learning area outcomes in English are as follows:

 

UNDERSTANDING LANGUAGE – Students understand that the way language is used varies according to context.

 

ATTITUDES, VALUES AND BELIEFS – Students understand that language has an

important effect on the ways in which they view themselves and the world in which they live.

 

CONVENTIONS – Students use the conventions of Standard Australian English with

understanding and critical awareness.

 

PROCESSES AND STRATEGIES – Students select from a repertoire of processes and strategies by reflecting on their understanding of the way language works for a variety of purposes in a range of contexts.

 

LISTENING – Students listen with purpose, understanding and critical awareness in a

wide range of situations.

 

SPEAKING – Students speak with purpose and effect in a wide range of contexts.

 

VIEWING – Students view a wide range of visual texts with purpose, understanding and critical awareness.

 

READING – Students read a wide range of texts with purpose, understanding and critical awareness.

 

WRITING – Students write for a range of purposes and in a range of forms using

conventions appropriate to audience, purpose and context.

 

 

 

 English – Year 11

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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