At Springbank Secondary College we recognise that every student has different strengths across different areas of learning, allowing support and extension to adapt as their needs change. By responding to individual progress in this way, we create the best opportunities for every student to build confidence, close learning gaps, extend their capabilities and experience success.

Our flexible model has a significant focus on building the essential skills to be successful in the senior years and pathways beyond school. At the cost of studying a language, Year 7 and 8 includes additional time for literacy and numeracy. To support these lessons, teachers collect and unpack student data and evidence of learning to identify individual strengths and areas for development. This information is used during literacy and numeracy lessons to divide students into similar support requirement groups for targeted intervention and stretch activities. Using this approach means our young people receive the learning support they need, at the time they need it, from the experts in the room, to fill any gaps in their learning and build success.

The teaching and learning program at Springbank Secondary College is underpinned by the South Australian Curriculum and the Australian Curriculum, ensuring students experience a rigorous, engaging and future-focused education. These curriculum frameworks provide a strong foundation for the delivery of high-quality learning across a broad range of learning areas, supporting the development of deep knowledge, transferable skills and the capabilities required for success beyond school. Through inclusive, evidence-informed teaching practices and meaningful learning experiences, students are encouraged to think critically, solve problems creatively and actively engage in their learning while pursuing pathways that align with their interests, strengths and aspirations.

For more information please visit the parent/caregiver information page on the ACARA website.

Year 7

The Year 7 curriculum offerings are all compulsory to ensure students are exposed to a balanced curriculum to enable learning of essential skills and for students to make informed choices about elective subjects in the future years.

Subjects are as follows:

Year 8

The Year 8 curriculum offerings are mainly compulsory to ensure students are exposed to a balanced curriculum to enable learning of essential skills and for students to make informed Technology choices about elective subjects in the future years. Students in Year 8 will be able to choose one elective subject from the Arts.

Year 9

In Year 9 students complete compulsory subjects and gain greater choice in subject elective offerings. Year 9 students must choose one compulsory Arts subject and one compulsory Technologies subject. Students will also choose three other elective subjects to suit their interests and post school pathways. This choice allows students to maintain a broad range of subjects or alternatively choose to narrow their focus and complete full year options of their favourites.