Subjects - Electives

Students need to make sure some 'elective' work is done from some or all of the subject areas of Sport & Health, Creative Arts, LOTE, and Technology. This is important for course completeness, and for enjoyment ... Our motto is to: "Cover the Core, with Room to Explore!" and 'electives' are a very important avenue for the students to use to 'explore'.

Interestingly, the Australian Curriculum does not really have the concept of 'electives' - just a mention of these four subject areas that should be included in a program - but almost all schools do things that way .... they 'choose' or 'elect' to do some detailed work in some of the areas within these subjects, so in a sense almost every school in Australia is actually in breach of the Australian Curriculum.

With HomeLearn Launchpad students can do the same - 'choose' some topics from Sport, Art, LOTE or Technology that really interest them, and spend some time studying and working at those ... effectively they 'develop' their own 'course' for that topic.

Alternatively, we have suggested activities in the four subject areas to match the course and the themes for each Unit, and students can use these instead, but bear in mind these would be described as 'low key' and no 'heavy' study of any elective area is provided.