Our Curriculum

The Western Australian Curriculum is fully implemented at Greenwood College, which is a mandated requirement for all WA schools. The WA Curriculum provides a comprehensive set of prescribed content and achievement standards. We use these to plan student learning programs, assess student progress and report to parents.

General capabilities

General Capabilities in the WA Curriculum encompass the knowledge, skills, behaviours and dispositions that will assist students to live and work successfully. The general capabilities are addressed through each learning area at Greenwood College and are embedded in all learning programs.

Literacy Numeracy Information and Communication Technology Critical and creative thinking

Personal and social capability Ethical understanding Intercultural understanding

The study of English provides insights into the ways that people live and think.  It allows for the exploration of our own and other cultures. 

It broadens our understanding of ourselves and our world. English develops a student’s abilities in listening, speaking, reading, viewing and writing. Students learn to apply these skills with purpose, effect, understanding and critical awareness. 

The course is aligned to the Western Australian Curriculum which is organised into three interrelated strands:

Western Australian English Curriculum

  • Language
  • Literature
  • Literacy
  • Language
  • Literature
  • Literacy

Language - Knowing about Standard Australian English

Literature - Understanding, appreciating, responding to, analysing and creating literature

Literacy - Expanding the repertoire of English usage.

The English curriculum offers a variety of learning activities that include the use of various texts, (short stories, novels, non-fiction, poetry, drama, expository, television, film and still images) with learning outcomes that focus on students comprehending and composing work while demonstrating an understanding of the conventions of the English language.