Community and Family Studies Life Skills Stage 6 Syllabus (2013)
Community and Family Studies Life Skills supports the education of Stage 6 students with intellectual disability. Learn more about CAFS Life Skills, access syllabus information and teaching and learning support materials.
About the course
Students learn how interactions of individuals and groups within society can affect wellbeing. They also develop skills and values to contribute effectively to groups, including families and communities.
The Community and Family Studies Life Skills Stage 6 course provides opportunities for students to explore the nature of wellbeing and develop an understanding of how individuals can support their own and others’ wellbeing. Students learn about the role of individuals and groups within society and how the interactions between individuals and groups can affect wellbeing. Students develop skills and values to contribute effectively to groups, including families and communities.
Students learn about groups in various contexts, including the school community, workplace and wider community, and develop an awareness of how their participation in groups may change over time.
The structure of the Community and Family Studies Life Skills Stage 6 course allows teachers to provide a broad and balanced program that reflects the needs of individual students within the context of the collaborative curriculum planning process. Students may study outcomes and content selected from one or more of the following modules:
- Wellbeing of individuals
- Families
- Participating in groups
- Specific groups in society
- Transition to adulthood
- Participating in work and community environments.
Teachers design a program based on the selected outcomes and appropriate to the students’ priorities, needs and interests.
Board Developed Course
Course number(s):
- 16697 Community and Family Studies Life Skills (2 units – Preliminary)
- 16697 Community and Family Studies Life Skills (2 units – HSC)
Prerequisites: A student studying any Stage 6 Life Skills course will usually have completed one or more courses based on Life Skills outcomes and content in Years 7–10, except under special circumstances.
Eligibility: Life Skills Eligibility
Study via self-tuition: No
Exclusions:
- 11060 Community and Family Studies (2 units – Preliminary)
- 15060 Community and Family Studies (2 units – HSC)
On entering students for the Community and Family Studies Life Skills Stage 6 course, the principal is certifying that the student is eligible and the decision is the result of the collaborative curriculum planning process.
Students are expected to address or achieve one or more of the Community and Family Studies Life Skills Stage 6 outcomes. They need not address or complete all of the content to demonstrate achievement of an outcome.
The knowledge and skills developed in this course can be applied across a range of career pathways.
Industries related to this course include, but are not limited to, the following outlined on the Your Career website:
What are Life Skills courses
All students are entitled to participate in and progress through the curriculum. Life Skills courses provide course options for students with intellectual disability or imputed intellectual disability in Years 11–12 who cannot access related general education courses.
Students with disability can access syllabus outcomes and content in a range of ways, including through a range of adjustments to teaching, learning and assessment activities. Decisions regarding curriculum options should be made in the context of collaborative curriculum planning.
Assessment support and advice
Teaching and learning support
Use these materials to guide and plan your teaching and assessment. Sample materials illustrate different approaches to teaching, learning and assessment in a range of school settings. Teachers can use them without modification, change them or construct their own.
Read more about supporting students with special education needs.
The Life Skills outcomes worksheet can be used to collect information on the outcomes that a student has achieved before recording them in Schools Online.