Sandringham College Senior Curriculum Guide 2014 Sandringham Programs College of Study for Contents VCE/VET/VCAL Contents Introduction • From the College Principal 3 • Campus Aims and Ethos 4 • Features and Events 5 • Course Options 6 VCE 7 • VCE Course Structure 8 • A list of VCE Studies 9 VET 10 • VET Programs 11 VCAL 13 • VCAL Course Structure 14 VCAL Unit Summaries 15 VCE & VET Unit Summaries 17 Program Areas 40 • Arts Performing 41 • Arts Visual 42 • Business 43 • Humanities 44 • Science 45 • Technology 47 Glossary Senior Campus Holloway Road Sandringham 3191 Ph: (03) 8599 0500 FAX: (03) 8599 0504 Email: [email protected] Cover design: 'Pomegranate' by Georgia Greenwood Web Address: Year 12 Art www.sandringhamsc.vic.edu.au 2 From the College Students starting at Sandringham College Senior Campus to Principal complete years 11 and 12 are entering some of the most important and rewarding years of their education. Sandringham College is an environment We also offer a full range of Vocational in which young adults thrive! Education (VET) courses, and a very dynamic Victorian Certificate of Applied We provide students with a wide and Learning (VCAL). exciting range of VCE, VCAL and VET units from which to choose. In fact, the With such a full range of offerings, Introduction range of subjects available to students choosing a course can become a at the College is equal to that provided complex and important task. It requires by virtually any school throughout the careful thought and discussion with a state. This range of subjects allows range of people. each student to tailor a course that is appropriate for his or her needs and In Years 11 and 12, students study interests. subjects which will set them up for their future. In selecting their subjects, At Sandringham, students will develop students need to take into account a positive rapport with their teachers, several questions. They include: allowing them to confidently approach their teachers and request extra • Which subjects do I enjoy? College Principal: assistance whenever required. The Mr Allen McAuliffe relationship that is established between • Which subjects am I good at? staff and students at the Senior Campus is very special. It is something our • Which subjects are prerequisites for students tell us constantly that they the courses I am interested in for the value and enjoy. future? At Sandringham, students will encounter • Does my subject selection allow me an atmosphere which is most conducive to change my mind about what I want to learning. Sandringham is a college to do in the future? where excellence is encouraged and rewarded. Many of our students achieve In order to make the final selection, excellent ATAR scores and each year each student should read through the students obtain a range of awards and descriptions of all courses carefully and recognitions of excellence including then discuss the various possibilities VCE Premier’s Awards, Vocational Prizes, with parents, teachers, careers advisors, VCAL Excellence Awards and selection other students and anyone who can into the VCAA Season of Excellence provide useful information. programs including Top Class, Top Arts, Top Designs and Top Acts. Above all, please take note of the fact that success on the Senior Campus is The College offers a range of VCE units more likely to occur if you enjoy what in: you are doing. Make the most of these years and take part in as many activities • Business as possible to enrich your time at the College. • Humanities I wish you well as you make your • LOTE choices. • Performing Arts • Physical & Outdoor Education Allen McAuliffe • Science & Mathematics College Principal • Technology • Visual Arts 3 Campus Aims and Ethos The Sandringham Senior Campus is unique. We provide a curriculum of unmatched variety and breadth within a stimulating young adult learning environment. Senior Campus staff are senior curriculum specialists, focused on helping students to achieve the best results possible and preparing them for the challenges they will face after they leave school. At Sandringham you can choose from Finally, we at Sandringham recognise over 70 VCE options at each year level, that the years 15 - 19 are a busy together with a wide range of VET/VCE and challenging period in your life. (Vocational Education & Training in Accordingly our extensive student the VCE) or VCAL courses. Our flexible support and services program is designed timetable is designed to minimise to give you every opportunity. frustrating clashes between your preferred studies. Campus Structure At Sandringham you will enjoy the company of many other students who Senior Campus life revolves around share your interests, goals and ideals. seven Programs, each of which offers At the same time your horizons will be subjects specifically designed to meet broadened by meeting students whose the needs of students within that interests and goals are different to program. yours. When you first enrol at the Senior Lucy de Bomford is a Humanities The Senior Campus embraces diversity Campus you will be counselled about Student Leader. She feels lucky to and fosters tolerance. We are not narrow your subject choices and placed in the be able to work closely with the and excluding. We respect the goals program which the College judges most teachers and represent the students of all of our students. We honour their appropriate, given your plans for study of the Humanities Domain. efforts and we take pleasure in their and work. achievements - as long as they do their After attending Bluff Road 7-10 best in the circumstances. This means Each Program has a Student Manager Campus since Year 7, Lucy was that when you come to Sandringham who looks after the students and ecstatic about finally being able you know you can be yourself and yet a Domain Leader who attends to to go to the Senior Campus. She be accepted and affirmed by your peers curriculum matters and administration. says the people are "accepting and and teachers. Indeed, at Sandringham caring" and she appreciates the we encourage you to express your Students get together at frequent adult learning environment. “It individuality through studying what you Program Meetings where important really gives students a chance to really like, developing your special gifts administrative information is shared, prove themselves and to prepare and talents, and seeking fulfilment in as well as information specifically of themselves for the world after VCE.” your chosen pathway. interest to students of that program. This year Lucy is studying a diverse We are very proud of what our students Year 12 students attend Program-specific range of subjects: Health and have achieved at Sandringham. A large orientation days early in the year and Human Development, Politics, number of students have received VCE all Programs run various events for their English, Food Technology and Premier’s Awards, and many others students. Sociology. Last year she undertook have had work selected for the VCAA Unit ¾ Psychology. She relishes annual Season of Excellence. Campus Further information about each of the the opportunity to study subjects VCE results are consistently higher than Programs can be found on the pages that cater to her individual needs. those achieved in schools with similar specified below. “Politics really gives me the chance student populations. to extend myself and to learn about Arts Performing 40 the world around me. Health and At Sandringham you will be treated as a Human provides me with knowledge young adult. Staff-student relations are Arts Visual 41 that I will need in my chosen friendly, informal and based on mutual career path of Midwifery, and Food respect, cooperation and a focus on Business 42 Technology allows me to express my the common goal - your learning. Our passion for cooking." rules are based on core ethical values Humanities 43 of personal responsibility for decision- Lucy plans to go to university to making, and care for others and the Science 44 study Midwifery, and eventually into environment. a career in Neonatal Intensive Birth Technology and 45 and Nursing. Applied Learning 4 Other Features and Events Student Action Year 12 Formal Dress Code Ethical Action The Year 12 Formal is one of the campus’ There is no school uniform. Students The Senior Campus attracts young great traditions, and it is invariably may wear casual dress within people with high ideals and a sense of successful because students play a appropriate limits. Please note, however, social responsibility. Our Performing leading role in its organisation. that coming to school with bare feet is Arts students hold a fund-raising not acceptable and students are strongly evening for Amnesty International and Supportive Friends advised not to wear thongs for safety our Student Union members and Music reasons. students both sponsor a child from a Students themselves are often the first third world country. to notice when a fellow student is down. Careers Department The Supportive Friends is a group of Community Service students and teachers who have been Students are very fortunate in having an trained in identifying and providing extremely well-resourced Careers Room. The campus has had a long association support for students who may be going The room is stocked with information with the Blood Bank, and over the years through a bad patch. about courses and careers, job seeking has contributed to many other worthy skills, resume writing and more. Students causes. International Students can use the room Monday - Thursday and can also make indivdual appointments Student Union The college was one of the first state with the Careers Counsellor to discuss schools to accept international students specific issues. The VET Coordinator can The Student Union meets regularly to and has catered for students from also be found in this area.