The English Studies 11–12 Syllabus (2024) is designed to enhance students’ personal, educational, social and vocational lives by supporting them to consolidate their knowledge, understanding and skills in English. The syllabus focuses on the development of students’ language, literacy and literary skills emphasising comprehension and interpretation of ideas, values, language forms and features and structures of texts from a wide range of contexts.

The syllabus provides students with opportunities to develop and appreciate critical and creative texts as they recognise how texts convey, interpret and reflect ways of thinking about themselves and the world.

It also supports students to becomes flexible and critical thinkers who engage with, understand and appreciate the variety of cultural heritages and diversity that make up Australian and global societies. It also encourages the continued development of literacy skills, individual and collaborative processes and reflective learning equipping students with the investigative and analytical skills required for the workplace, as well as post-school training and education.

English Studies 11–12 Syllabus (2024)

These resources have been developed to support teachers in planning and programming.

Planning templates and sample documents

These documents identify key requirements for planning and enacting the English Studies 11–12 Syllabus (2024) and text requirements.

Planning templates

These templates can be used to support teachers in their planning, programming and assessment practices.

• Syllabus requirements planner template – English studies Year 11–12 (DOCX 3.2 MB)
• Scope and sequence template – English studies Year 11–12 (DOCX 3.1 MB)
• Assessment schedule template – English studies Year 11–12 (DOCX 3.6 MB).

Sample documents

These sample documents demonstrate how to use the planning templates. They can be adapted for planning, programming and assessing in a specific school context.

• Sample syllabus requirements planner – English studies Year 11–12 (DOCX 3.7 MB)
• Sample scope and sequence – English studies Year 11–12 (DOCX 3.1 MB)
• Sample assessment schedule – English studies Year 11–12 (DOCX 3.7 MB).

Sample programs and resources

Sample programs and resources for the English Studies 11–12 Syllabus (2024) are currently in development. These samples will include teaching and learning programs, resources, sample assessments and annotated student work samples for the Year 11 ‘Reading to write: Transition to English Studies’ focus area and the Year 12 ‘Writing for purpose’ focus area.

English Studies Stage 6 Syllabus (2017)