English
English is central to the learning and development of all young Australians. The Australian Curriculum: English helps students engage imaginatively and critically with literature to expand the scope of their experience.
At Everton Park State High School, students engage with a variety of texts from a variety of cultures. Text types studied include: media, digital texts, novels, poetry and song, and performance.
Importantly, they learn how to engage with issues presented and express their thoughts about them.
The Arts
Drama
Drama stimulates the imagination and allows students to explore issues and experiences in a safe and supportive environment. The subject promotes self-esteem, builds confidence and provides all students with a sense of achievement.
Music
In music, students listen to, compose and perform music from a diverse range of styles, traditions and contexts. In their exploration of composition, performance and musicology students examine the choices made by musicians and composers in the creation of musical works.
Visual Art
Visual arts includes the fields of art, craft and design. Learning in and through these fields, students create visual representations that communicate, challenge and express their own and others’ ideas as artist and audience.
Dance
Dance introduces students to body awareness, technical and expressive skills. They will learn to use the body for purpose, communicating through movement confidently, creatively and intelligently.
Science
Science provides an empirical way of answering interesting and important questions about the biological, physical and technological world. The knowledge it produces has proved to be a reliable basis for action in our personal, social and economic lives.
Science is a dynamic, collaborative and creative human endeavour arising from our desire to make sense of our world through exploring the unknown, investigating universal mysteries, making predictions and solving problems.
Science aims to understand a large number of observations in terms of a much smaller number of broad principles
Mathematics
Mathematics is a unique and powerful way of viewing the world to investigate patterns, order, generality and uncertainty. Mathematics helps people make meaning of their life experiences through the use of universally true abstractions and, at the same time, to apply these abstract concepts to interpret new situations in the real world.
Mathematics is an integral part of a general education. It can enhance understanding of our world and the quality of our participation in a rapidly changing society.
Mathematics pervades so many aspects of daily life that a sound knowledge is essential for informed citizenship. Through enhanced understanding of mathematics, people can become better informed economically, socially and politically in an increasingly mathematically oriented society.
Technology
Food Specialisations
Within the Food Specialisations course, students use their food and nutrition knowledge and skills to create meals and menus to support a healthy lifestyle. It teaches students to apply knowledge, skills and resources that focus on hygiene and safety.
Materials and Manufacturing
Materials and Manufacturing is a practical subject in the workshop that allows students to create functional items using construction skills and techniques.
Design and Technology
Design Technology provides students with an opportunity to gain an understanding of design and technology across a range of contexts. Students will design and manufacture a variety of products/artefacts in response to design briefs and solve design related situations to create and evaluate their solutions to current and relevant issues.
Digital Technologies
Learning in Digital Technologies focuses on further developing understanding and skills in computational thinking such as, precisely and accurately describing problems, and the use of modular approaches to solutions. It also focuses on engaging students with specialised learning in preparation for vocational training or learning in the senior secondary years.
Students will have had opportunities to create a range of digital solutions, such as interactive web applications or programmable multimedia assets or simulations of relationships between objects in the real world.
Humanities and Languages
The Humanities and Social Sciences are the study of human behaviour and interaction in social, cultural, environmental, economic and political contexts. The Humanities and Social sciences have a historical and contemporary focus, from personal to global contexts, and consider challenges for the future.
In the Australian Curriculum, the Humanities and Social Sciences learning area includes a study of History, Geography, Civics and Citizenship, Legal Studies and Economics and Business.
The subject provides a broad understanding of the world in which we live, and how people can participate as active and informed citizens with high-level skills needed for the 21st century.
Languages - Spanish
Spanish is a global language spoken by approximately 500 million people across the world. The subject of Spanish focuses on developing students’ understanding of Spanish language and culture.
The course is designed to provide students with opportunities to develop the skills needed to communicate in Spanish, build their vocabulary and understanding of grammatical structures, and to develop their repertoire of processing skills and strategies for acquiring and manipulating the verbal, non-verbal, and written features of the Spanish language.
HPE and Sport
Health and Physical Education (HPE) provides opportunities for students to adopt lifelong healthy, active living.
The knowledge, understanding and skills taught through Health and Physical Education provide a foundation for students to enhance their own and others’ health and wellbeing in varied and changing contexts.