Year 09

​Year 9 broadens student choice and begins to connect learning with future pathways, while maintaining a strong focus on core curriculum, inquiry, creative practice and practical problem-solving.

Subject list

Subject summaries

• English: Students develop their understanding of language, literature and literacy through reading, viewing, writing, speaking and creating texts. QCAA curriculum information.
• Health and Physical Education: Students build knowledge and skills for healthy, active lives through movement, wellbeing, safety and personal development contexts. QCAA curriculum information.
• Humanities: Students investigate people, places, systems and societies, building inquiry, evidence and interpretation skills across humanities contexts. QCAA curriculum information.
• Industrial Design and Technology: Students apply design and production processes to investigate needs, generate ideas, create designed solutions and evaluate outcomes. QCAA curriculum information.
• Mathematics: Students develop number, algebra, measurement, space, statistics and probability knowledge through reasoning, problem-solving and mathematical modelling. QCAA curriculum information.
• Science: Students investigate biological, chemical, physical and Earth and space sciences through inquiry, evidence and scientific explanation. QCAA curriculum information.
• Textiles and Food Studies: Students use design thinking, technologies and practical processes to investigate, produce and evaluate solutions using materials, food and textile contexts. QCAA curriculum information.
• Agricultural Science: Students explore agricultural systems through scientific inquiry, sustainability, biological processes and practical problem-solving. QCAA curriculum information.
• Business Studies: Students explore business, enterprise and economic decision-making, including how people participate in and respond to local and global markets. QCAA curriculum information.
• Dance: Students develop choreography, performance and responding skills, using the elements of dance to communicate ideas and meaning. QCAA curriculum information.
• Visual Arts: Students make and respond to artworks, developing visual language, techniques and understanding of artists, audiences and contexts. QCAA curriculum information.
• Drama: Students make, perform and respond to drama, using role, situation, tension, voice and movement to shape meaning. QCAA curriculum information.
• Industrial Design & Technology Extension: Students extend design and technologies skills through more specialised design, production and evaluation challenges. QCAA curriculum information.
• Media Arts: Students create and respond to media artworks, using media languages, technologies and production processes to communicate ideas. QCAA curriculum information.
• Japanese: Students develop communication skills in Japanese while exploring language, culture and intercultural understanding. QCAA curriculum information.
• Music: Students listen, perform and compose while developing knowledge of musical elements, forms and expressive communication. QCAA curriculum information.
• Digital Technologies: Students learn to design digital solutions by using data, algorithms, programming, systems thinking and project processes. QCAA curriculum information.