Curriculum
Choice to pursue their passions
Rosebank College provides a wide range of curriculum choice and pathways. Students can pursue their own passions, strengths and interests, allowing them to develop into the best learner they can be.
Our learning is a continuum and is structured in stages. Students can select from a broad range of more than 35 subjects, enabling them to keep their future options open.
STAGE 4 YEARS 7 & 8
The Stage 4 Curriculum provides a balance that recognises the importance of the transition between primary and secondary education.
Year 7 students study English, History and Geography in an integrated program, ConnectED. Students also have access to a unique instrumental program.
The Year 8 Curriculum pattern is NSW Education Standards Authority (NESA) determined, however students are given the opportunity to make their first informed subject choice with their mandatory language.
STAGE 5 YEARS 9 & 10
The Stage 5 Curriculum more broadly introduces the concept of core and elective courses.
Students further develop their decision-making skills by choosing to study elective courses they are keen to learn based upon their ability and interests. Electives may include:
Stage 5 Electives
- Chinese
- Commerce
- Dance
- Design and Technology
- Drama
- Food Technology
- French
- Global Studies
- History (Elective)
- Hospitality (Accelerated, Year 10 only)
- Industrial Technology
- Information Software & Technology (Robotics and Artificial Intelligence)
- Italian
- iThink
- Learning Matters
- Music
- Photography and Digital Media
- Physical Activity and Sports Science
- Textiles Technology
- Visual Arts
STAGE 6 YEARS 11 & 12
Stage 6 is divided into two parts. The Preliminary Course includes the first three terms of Year 11.
The HSC Course includes Term 4 of Year 11 and the three terms of Year 12. English (Advanced, Standard and English Studies) and Studies of Religion (1 or 2) are mandatory, however electives may include:
Stage 6 Electives
- Ancient History
- Biology
- Business Services (VET)
- Business Studies
- Catholic Studies
- Chemistry
- Chinese (Beginners and Continuers)
- Community and Family Studies
- Computing Applications
- Dance
- Design and Technology
- Drama
- Earth and Environmental Science
- Economics
- Engineering Studies
- English (Standard, Advanced, ESL, Extension 1 and 2)
- Exploring Early Childhood
- Food Technology
- French Beginners
- Fundamentals of English (Year 11 only)
- Geography
- History Extension
- Hospitality (VET)
- Industrial Technology
- Information Processes and Technology
- Information and Digital Technology (VET)
- Investigating Science
- Italian Beginners, Continuers and Extension
- Legal Studies
- Mathematics (Advanced, Standard 1 and 2, Extension 1 and 2)
- Modern History
- Music (1, 2 and Music Extension)
- PDHPE
- Photography, Video and Digital Imaging
- Physics
- Society and Culture
- Sports, Lifestyle and Recreation
- Textiles and Design
- Visual Arts
Rosebank has relationships with external providers of specific language courses or subjects of interest to our students, where it is not offered to their cohort.