YEAR 8 COURSES
In Year 8, students continue developing their critical thinking and personal voice in writing by familiarising themselves with more complex text types. This gives students the confidence to respond to ideas from texts and express themselves in accordance to their purpose, audience and context.
What make us different?
Our Years 7–12 courses are designed as a connected learning journey, helping students build the English, Maths and Science foundations needed for Stage 5, Year 11 and future HSC preparation.
Students are introduced to key concepts before they encounter them at school, giving them more time to understand, practise and gain confidence in class.
Students revisit important skills through classroom lessons, homework, revision and Cyberschool resources, helping them move from basic understanding to confident application.
Through our LMS system, students and parents can better understand progress, strengths and areas that need further improvement, with learning data used to support more targeted guidance.
Our small group learning environment allows teachers to support students more closely, while additional practice, homework, revision materials and online learning support help learning continue beyond weekly lessons.
New College builds balanced academic strength across the core subjects from the start of high school, with Elite and Advanced Maths pathways for students ready for greater challenge.
Year 8 Course Structure
Module 1: Extending Narrative Analysis / Advertisements I
Module 2: Narrative Plots and Themes / Advertisements II
Module 3: Plot and Theme Development / Magazine Covers
Module 4: Setting and Characterisation I / Webpages
Module 5: Setting and Characterisation II / Editorial Cartoons I
Module 6: Features of Review Texts / Editorial Cartoons II
Module 7: Analysing and Composing Reviews / Picture Books
Module 8: Exploring Anthologies / Film Techniques I
Module 9: Extending Narrative Writing / Film Techniques II
Module 10: Narrative Composition / Responding to Visual Texts
Module 11: Revision of Written and Visual Texts
Module 1: Algebraic Fractions
Module 2: Integral, Fractional and Negative Indices
Module 3: Products and Factors I
Module 4: Products and Factors II
Module 5: Products and Factors III
Module 6: Introduction to Surds
Module 7: Working with Surds
Module 8: Advanced Surds
Module 9: Challenge Applications
Module 10: Revision Test
Module 11: Content Review
Module 1: Scientific Investigations and Practical Reports
Module 2: Asexual Reproduction
Module 3: Sexual Reproduction in Plants
Module 4: Human Reproduction
Module 5: Science for Better Health
Module 6: Earth’s Evolution
Module 7: Rocks and Their Formation
Module 8: Minerals and Their Properties
Module 9: Geological History of Earth
Module 10: Review and Consolidation
Module 11: Revision and Assessment
Module 1: Probability I
Module 2: Probability II
Module 3: Statistics I
Module 4: Statistics II
Module 5: Trigonometry
Module 6: Further Trigonometry I
Module 7: Further Trigonometry II
Module 8: Financial Maths
Module 9: Logarithms I
Module 10: Logarithms II
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