Senior Secondary Years 11-12

Entry Requirements

Course Details

Senior School, Years 10, 11 & 12, build on the questions answered in Middle School. What am I good at? What do I love doing? Further exploring different subjects, students begin refining these thoughts and settling on the journey they want to pursue, eventually choosing pathways from over fifty Year 12 subjects. Senior School is about finding your thing.

The Senior School offers new levels of independence, with open spaces and creative learning environments that reflect modern workplaces. Spread across the Margaret Ames Centre and the brand-new Discovery Centre, students can access everything from meeting rooms and pitching spaces to green screens and a podcasting studio. Using these innovative spaces, students are encouraged to present assessments in non-traditional ways, demonstrating their understanding with the strongest possible response. Other pathways will take advantage of the state-of-the-art design, engineering, and manufacturing facilities, or the professional kitchen, art studio and fashion workshop, to develop fully realized projects that have real-world impact.

Beyond academic studies, students are also exposed to life learning during their time in the Senior School. Visiting speakers regularly teach students about issues facing young people in the 21st Century, and students are also encouraged to engage with their community through acts of charity and service.

When a Year 12 student graduates from Immanuel, they’re not just leaving with a future-focused education, they leave with a strong sense of self, a sense of direction, a sense of purpose, and close connections with their classmates and the wider community.

Senior School curriculum
SACE Stage 1 & 2

We offer the opportunity for students to achieve their South Australian Certificate of Education (SACE) based on the Australian Curriculum.

The SACE is an internationally recognised qualification that helps students develop capabilities to live, learn, work, and participate successfully in an ever-changing society. Through the SACE, students develop the skills and knowledge they need to succeed – whether they are headed for further education, training, an apprenticeship or straight into the workforce.

In Senior School, students start to make academic choices which will have a significant impact on their future careers. Students are supported to make informed decisions about future pathways and directions.

Students are prepared for successful participation in society. Thoughtful, respectful and informed involvement in the community is promoted on a local, national and international level. Students are encouraged to embrace the challenges of today’s world and to approach the future with confidence.

Years 11 & 12

In the final years of Senior School, our students are supported to achieve beyond their expectations. Every student will face challenges as they work to complete SACE and we make sure they’re supported to overcome them, with an emphasis on life beyond school. We help our students develop strategies to live, learn, work, and participate successfully in an ever-changing society, whether they are headed for university, further education, training, an apprenticeship or straight into the workforce.

Immanuel offers an extraordinary range of academic options and subject choices in Years 11 & 12 aimed at meeting each student’s individual needs.

We offer the SMART Choices program in Year 11 to educate students on making the best possible choices now and in the future specifically aimed at teenagers. Recent topics have included positive well-being, safe social networking, safe driving, positive psychology, sleep, resilience, safe and respectful relationships, healthy eating and physical health.