Junior Curriculum

VU 2 !

CHECK THE DOWNLOAD PAGE FOR A WORD DOCUMENT THAT DETAILS ALL THE CHANGES YEAR 7 TO YEAR 10

Timetable changes for 2006

LHS will change from delivering Term courses (40 Hours) to Semester courses ( 60 hours). Students will be better able to master subject outcomes in the longer time frame. The longer time should also allow teachers and students to develop better educational  relationships. There should be less disruption to your child's education by offering fewer class changes. It is planned that a student will choose both semester units in a course at the beginning of the academic year. In stage 5, there will be three streams students will be channelled into depending on their academic performance and personal needs. A number of challenging extension units in Stage 5 will cater for Gifted and talented students and, of course, LHS will continue to lead the way with accelerating these students into Year 11 and 12 ahead of their cohorts in select subjects.

Details have yet to be finalised, but LHS will discontinue its cyclical time table for 2005 (ie days 1 to 6) and have a week A and a week B. Semesterisation does not allow for term units. Students will have the same amount of time in class as they now do.

Year 7

Year 7 is not affected by the new changes. Our system where the 7-1 is a gifted and talented group, 7-2 is also a strong academic group and the other classes are ungraded has been most satisfactory over the years and does not need changing.

Years 8 to 10

Students will be divided into three bands based on academic ability. Courses will be run on a semester and will cater for students in the three bands. It will be possible for students to be in more than one band ie gifted in Music but Standard for Maths etc and , just like in VU, it is envisaged that a course may have students from more than one year in it.

LHS will maintain a system that allows students to accelerate in subjects they are particularly gifted in. At present there are 9 students in Year 9 doing Year 10 Maths and a similar number of Year 10 mathematicians doing Preliminary Maths courses.

There will be strengthening of the core subjects of English , Maths and Science while still maintaining a wide range of elective subjects.

Year 11 and 12

These courses are not affected by the VU system and the changes to it, however, just like the junior students, their program will no longer be on a cyclical time table but a Week A and a Week B.

Conclusion

We are a comprehensive high school that continually delivers better than average results in the HSC, School Certificate, ELLA tests, outside competitions etc.

The changes to our junior curriculum should ensure we maintain this lead.

W. Goldie

Careers Adviser

2/09/04