Record of changes for Work and the Community Life Skills
All changes made to the Work and the Community Life Skills syllabus are recorded here. Learn about these updates.
About the record of changes
This record details amendments to the syllabus, school-based assessment and credentialing for the course.
When amendments are published, they are also communicated via NESA official notices in the NESA News.
Revised Stage 6 Work and Community Life Skills Syllabus
Implementation of the revised syllabus commences for Preliminary students in 2016.
Key features of the revised syllabus include:
- reduction in the number of outcomes
- restructured modules that present content under topic headings
- new content in relation to ICT and financial literacy.
Outcomes credentialed for RoSA
Students undertaking Life Skills courses in Year 11 will have the outcomes they have achieved credentialed for their Record of School Achievement (RoSA). This will involve the same processes that apply to HSC reporting.
Enhanced processes for credentialling
The Board of Studies has introduced enhanced processes for credentialling Higher School Certificate students who are undertaking Life Skills courses.
The new processes are effective from 2011.
Key amendments include:
- The Board of Studies NSW will generate and issue the HSC Profile of Student Achievement to the student in January, as part of their official HSC credentials.
- The HSC Profile of Student Achievement will no longer be issued by schools.
- Schools will enter information in Schools Online relating to Life Skills outcomes achieved for each student undertaking one or more HSC Life Skills courses.
- Life Skills outcome collection will follow the same timeline as submission of HSC assessment marks (opening on Schools Online from 8 August, 2011).
- Schools may now download from Schools Online personalised Life Skills Outcomes Worksheets for each student enrolled in an HSC Life Skills course to assist in the collection of information relating to achievement of outcomes in each Life Skills course.
Remove reference to 'special program of study'
The study of one or more Life Skills courses in Stage 6 is no longer considered by the Board of Studies to be a ‘special program of study’. The Board wishes to advise teachers of minor amendments to the web versions of the Stage 6 Life Skills Syllabuses and support materials. The effect of the amendments is to remove reference to a ‘special program of study’.