Learning how to communicate complex ideas, debate respectfully, and use and develop empathy by reading about the lives and experiences of people from a wide and diverse range of backgrounds is the key to English at Braybrook College. Our faculty aims to enable students to build their skills across reading, understanding, speaking, and writing across a variety of forms, including persuasive and narrative writing tasks. We aim to help students develop their critical thinking skills, including the formulation of opinions and ideas in response to social issues. The English Faculty works in teams to encourage and support student learning and to develop modified work where appropriate to give every student the opportunity to demonstrate their skills.
The English Faculty offers an elective subject at Year 10, and Literature as a VCE subject at years 11 and 12.\
Students develop skills as outlined in the Victorian Curriculum 2.0 framework, including reading and responding to written and visual texts (books and films), persuasive and analytical writing (understanding how language is used to create influence), debating, and narrative writing, including short stories and poetry. Students are encouraged to work with others, share ideas, and practise using a wide range of writing styles.
In VCE English, students are equipped with the skills and knowledge needed to complete Units 1-4 and to prepare for the end-of-year VCAA (Victorian Curriculum and Assessment Authority) English examination in Year 12. Our learning focus in VCE is on reading and responding to texts, analysing the way arguments and persuasive texts are structured, speaking and arguing a point of view in front of an audience, and creating, drafting, and editing a personal essay or story in response to a set theme. Students are encouraged to work collectively to develop their ideas and to seek teacher feedback as often as possible.
