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