All Year 9 courses, are 1.5 hours long once a week for 9 weeks during the term.
English
Term 1
Reading Novels
Building Reading Skills
Characterisation
Setting
Plot
Term 2
Poetry
Shakespearean Poetry
Emily Dickinson
Modern Poetry
Australian Poetry
Term 3
Critical Film Studies
Complex film techniques
The role of the director
How to analyse film
Term 4
Shakespeare's Macbeth
Strategies for reading Shakespeare
Approaching Macbeth
Writing analytically and imaginatively
Maths
Term 1
Algrabatic Expressions & Fractions
Equations
Inequalities
Term 2
Indices & Surds
Surface Area
Volumes
Term 3
Factorisation of Quadratic
Expressions
Properties of Geometrical Figures
Term 4
Trigonometry
Linear Relationships
Simultaneous Equations
Science
Term 1
Chemical World: Chemistry Part 1
Term 2
Living World: Biology Part 1
Term 3
Physical World: Physics Part 1
Term 4
Earth and Space: Earth Science Part 1