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Support to help you plan, program and assess the English Advanced course.

English Advanced 11–12 Syllabus (2024)

The new English Advanced 11–12 Syllabus (2024) is to be implemented from 2026, with planning beginning in 2025. The syllabus will be taught to Year 11 from Term 1, 2026. Schools are to begin teaching year 12 in Term 4, 2026. The first HSC examination for English Advanced 11–12 Syllabus (2024) is in 2027.

This 2026 English Advanced Stage 6 (2024) Quick Reference Guide (PDF 261 KB) provides an overview of support available to implement the English Advanced Stage 6 Syllabus (2024).

The department is supporting teachers to engage with and plan for the enactment of the new senior English syllabuses developed by NESA as part of the NSW Curriculum Reform. This page includes support resources for teachers and leaders:

  • enacting the English Standard Stage 6 Syllabus (2017)
  • planning for engagement and 2026 enactment of the new English Advanced 11–12 Syllabus (2024)
    • this syllabus will be taught to Year 11 from Term 1, 2026
    • further resources are currently in development and will be released progressively throughout 2025 and 2026.

These resources have been developed to support teachers in planning and programming.

Planning templates and sample documents

These documents identify key requirements for planning and enacting the English Advanced 11–12 Syllabus (2024) and text requirements.

Planning templates

These templates can be used to support teachers in their planning, programming and assessment practices.

Sample documents

Option 1 and Option 2 below provide 2 sets of sample documents to demonstrate how to use the planning templates. They can be adapted for planning and programming in a specific school context.

Sample programs and resources

These sample programs and resources are designed to support enacting the English Advanced 11–12 Syllabus (2024).

These samples include a teaching and learning program, resources, sample assessment and annotated student work samples for the Year 11 ‘Reading to write: Transition to English Advanced’ focus area.

The following resources and supporting slide decks are for the program 'Reading to write: Transition to English Advanced' – 11.1.

English Advanced Stage 6 Syllabus (2017)

The English Advanced Stage 6 Syllabus (2017) is to be taught until implementation of the new English Advanced 11–12 Syllabus (2024) is implemented from 2026.

This 2026 English Advanced Stage 6 (2017) Quick Reference Guide (PDF 61 KB) provides an overview of support available to implement the English Advanced Stage 6 Syllabus (2017).

Year 12 resources

You can adapt the following resources as required.

Common module – Texts and human experiences

You can adapt the following units of work as required.

All the Light We Cannot See
Billy Elliot
The Boy Behind the Curtain
The Crucible
The Merchant of Venice
The poetry of Kenneth Slessor and other related texts
Module A – Textual conversations

You can adapt the following resources as required.

Hag-Seed and The Tempest
Poetry of John Keats and Bright Star
Plath and Hughes

Module B – Critical study of literature

You can adapt the following resources as required.

Good Night, and Good Luck

Note: There is no resource 9.

Ibsen: A Doll's House
An artist of the floating world
TS Eliot
Module C – The craft of writing

You can adapt the following resources as required.

The craft of writing

Note: There is no resource 13, 18, 19, 20 or 28.

In this lesson sequence students will construct a narrative in response to a stimulus.

Key phases of learning

The Stage 6 phases project has been developed to support teachers in the structuring of teaching and learning activities for Stage 6 units. In the typical eight-week timeframe of a unit, a teacher may employ a range of these phases in order to meet outcomes, cover content and prepare for assessment.

The term ‘phase’ helps to focus planning by identifying the specific purpose of each section within a teaching program. The phases are closely aligned to the English textual concept ‘learning processes’ of understanding, engaging personally, connecting, engaging critically, experimenting, and reflecting. As such each phase focuses teacher and student attention onto the learning intentions of each sequence of lessons.

Each phase lesson sequence is structured as a case study utilising a module and a prescribed text. However, the teaching and learning activities within the case study could be easily adapted to any Stage 6 unit.

Connecting phase – Module B – Emma
Engagement phase – Module B – Henry IV
Unpacking phase – Module B – Henry IV
Deepening phase – Module C – A Tennyson, The Lady of Shallot

HSC support resources

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Page details

Last modified date
08/05/2026
Business unit contact email
secondarycurriculumcorrespondence@det.nsw.edu.au
Executive director
Megan Kelly
Executive director’s business unit
Teaching Learning&Student Wellbeing
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