Important updates
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| March 2020 | Support for head teachers supervising language teachers updated by the NSW Department of Education. | |||||
| February 2021 | Sample Stage 5 generic unit starter - a sustainable future, making changes together (DOCX 383KB) published by NSW Department of Education, supporting the cross-curriculum priorities of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander histories and cultures, and sustainability. | |||||
| November 2020 | Sample Stage 4 Modern Greek unit starter, assessment task (with marking criteria) and updated scope and sequence published by NSW Department of Education. Sample Stage 5 scope and sequences for Japanese and Korean published by NSW Department of Education. |
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| October 2020 | Sample Stage 5 scope and sequences for French, German and Italian published by NSW Department of Education. | |||||
| September 2020 | Sample Stage 4 Indonesian unit starter, assessment task (with marking criteria) and updated scope and sequence published by NSW Department of Education. Sample Stage 4 generic unit starter on class party (DOCX 532KB) published by NSW Department of Education, with a focus on differentiation and adjustments to support the needs of a range of learners. Sample Stage 5 scope and sequences for Arabic, Chinese, Indonesian, Modern Greek and Spanish published by NSW Department of Education. |
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| July 2020 | Sample Stage 4 Arabic and Stage 4 Korean unit starters, assessment tasks (with marking criteria) and updated scope and sequences published by NSW Department of Education. | |||||
| June 2020 | Sample Stage 4 generic unit of work – snack attack – released by NESA and designed to assist teachers when students are learning from home. | |||||
| May 2020 | Sample Stage 4 German unit starter, assessment task (with marking criteria) and updated scope and sequence published by NSW Department of Education. | |||||
| May 2020 | Support for head teachers supervising language teachers updated by the NSW Department of Education. | |||||
| April 2020 | Sample Stage 5 generic unit starter on food trucks (DOCX 95KB) published by the NSW Department of Education. | |||||
| April 2020 | Sample Stage 4 assessment tasks (with marking criteria) and unit starters (sample units of work) for Chinese, Italian and Spanish published by the NSW Department of Education. | |||||
| November 2019 | Sample Stage 4 scope and sequences for Indonesian and Modern Greek published by the NSW Department of Education. | |||||
| September 2019 | New K-10 syllabuses for Hindi, Macedonian, Persian , Punjabi and Tamil published by NESA for implementation from Term 1 2020. | |||||
| September 2019 | Sample Stage 4 assessment tasks (with marking criteria) and unit starters (sample units of work) for French and Japanese, and sample Stage 4 scope and sequence for French published by the NSW Department of Education. | |||||
| August 2019 | Sample unit of work and sample assessment activity for Stage 4 for French published by NESA. | |||||
| August 2019 | Support materials for 2020-2024 course prescriptions for Stage 6 Extension courses published by the NSW Department of Education in Arabic, Chinese, French , German, Indonesian, Italian , Japanese, Modern Greekand Spanish. | |||||
| August 2019 | Support for head teachers supervising language teachers published by the NSW Department of Education. | |||||
| June 2019 | Sample Stage 4 scope and sequences for Japanese, Korean and Spanish published by the NSW Department of Education. | |||||
| June 2019 | Course performance descriptors for the K-10 language syllabuses (2017-2019) published by NESA. |
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| May 2019 | New 7-10 programming resources published by the NSW Department of Education, including programming guidelines, sample unit of work proformas (sample 1 and sample 2) and a backward mapping tool. | |||||
| April 2019 | Sample units of work and sample assessment activities for Stage 4 for German, Korean and Spanish published by NESA. | |||||
| February 2019 | Sample unit of work and sample assessment activity for Stage 4 for Italian. New K-10 syllabuses for Arabic, Modern Greek, Turkish and Vietnamese published by NESA for implementation from 2020 with K-6, Year 7 and Year 9 and from 2021 with Year 8 and Year 10. In 2019, schools will continue to implement the 2003 syllabus documents. |
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| November 2018 | New sample scope and sequences for Early Stage 1 to Stage 5 French, German, Indonesian , Italian, Korean and Spanish published by NESA. | |||||
| November 2018 | New HSC course prescriptions for the 2020-2024 HSC for Stage 6 Extension courses in Arabic, Chinese, French, German , Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Modern Greek and Spanish published by NESA. Implementation of the new course prescriptions will commence at the start of Term 4 2019 for the 2020 HSC examination. | |||||
| August 2018 | New support materials for Chinese and Literature, Indonesian and Literature, Japanese and Literature and Korean and Literature published by the NSW Department of Education. | |||||
| July 2018 | CCAFL Stage 6 Indonesian in Context course to be suspended following 2019 HSC examination | |||||
| May 2018 | Stage 6 Arabic Beginners course to be suspended following 2019 HSC examination. | |||||
| April 2018 | New sample scope and sequences, sample units of work and sample assessment activities for Early Stage 1 to Stage 5 for Chinese and Japanese published by NESA. | |||||
| March 2018 | New K-10 syllabuses for French, German, Indonesian , Italian, Korean and Spanish published by NESA for implementation from 2019 with K-6, Year 7 and Year 9 and from 2020 with Year 8 and Year 10. | |||||
| August 2017 | CCAFL Stage 6 Ukrainian Continuers course to be suspended following 2018 HSC examination. | |||||
| June 2017 | New K-10 syllabuses for Chinese and Japanese published by NESA for implementation from 2019 with K-6, Year 7 and Year 9 and from 2020 with Year 8 and Year 10. | |||||
| June 2017 | New Languages K-10 Framework published by NESA. | |||||
| June 2017 | New course prescriptions for Stage 6 Language and Literature courses in Chinese, Indonesian, Japanese and Korean 2019-2023 published by NESA for implementation from Term 1 2018. |