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Have your say on draft Syllabuses: Music 1, 2 and Extension 11-12, Dance 11-12, Drama 11-12, Economics 11-12, Legal Studies 11-12, Biology 11-12, Chemistry 11-12, Earth and Environmental Science 11-12, Physics 11-12

This term, NESA has released a further 19 syllabuses for public consultation. These are all currently available for viewing on NESA’s Syllabus Consultation page and will be available for feedback until Friday 20 December. 

AISNSW is currently conducting focus groups to gather feedback from leaders and teachers in our member schools. This feedback will directly inform the submissions that we make to NESA on behalf of the Independent sector. We are enormously grateful to those who have already provided feedback either by attending a focus group or submitting feedback directly via email. Focus groups for the following syllabuses are still to be held:

  • Music 2 11-12: Wednesday 20 November 3.45 - 4.30pm
  • Music Extension 11-12: Thursday 21 November 3.45 - 4.30pm
  • Music Extension 11-12: Thursday 28 November 3.45 - 4.30pm
  • Chemistry and Chemistry Life Skills 11-12: Wednesday 20 November 3.45 - 4.30pm
  • Earth and Environmental Science & Earth and Environmental Science Life Skills 11-12: Thursday 28 November 3.45 - 4.30pm

For those who would like to take part in any of these, please complete this short booking form. 

If you wish to submit feedback about the other syllabuses, this can be emailed directly to our consultants:

Jennifer Woods – all Science 11-12 syllabuses

Carlo Tuttocuore – all HSIE and Creative Arts 11-12 syllabuses 


Release of new Commerce 7-10 Syllabus

The new Commerce 7–10 Syllabus was released on Wednesday 6 November and can now be accessed via NESA’s Digital Curriculum. Additional teaching and learning support materials will be released as they are finalised. 

Commencing in 2025, schools can plan and prepare to teach the new syllabus, with mandatory implementation from 2027.


NESA’s new Teaching Grammar course

A new optional online professional learning course Teaching Grammar is now available on NESA’s online learning hub. This course is designed to support K–10 English teachers in developing their understanding of grammatical components and how grammar forms part of the essential content of the English K–10 Syllabus. 

There are five self-paced interactive modules which may be completed individually or with colleagues. Through particular elements of content, teachers have opportunities to select their preferred pathway based on the Stage(s) that they teach and their prior knowledge, confidence and skills.This provides them with opportunities to see examples of teaching and learning activities linked to syllabus content relevant to their year level or Stage. 


2025 Professional Learning 

Next year will be a very busy year, with significant professional learning currently being designed to support teachers with the implementation of new syllabuses released across K-12 this year. These include:

  • Creative Arts K-6
  • HSIE K-6
  • PDHPE K-6 and 7-10
  • Science & Technology K-6
  • Aboriginal Studies 7-10
  • Commerce 7-10
  • Geography 7-10
  • History 7-10
  • Technology Electives 7-10: Agricultural Technology, Engineering Technology, Marine and Aquaculture Technology
  • Visual Arts 7-10
  • English 11-12 (all courses)
  • Mathematics 11-12 (all courses)
  • Ancient History 11-12
  • Modern History 11-12
  • History Extension Year 12

We will be providing this professional learning in a range of modes, including face-to-face, blended and online self-paced formats. A large range of conferences and the opportunity for school-based consultancies will also be offered. At this stage, we expect to make these available for registration from late November this year. Please keep your eye out on our Courses and Events page. 


Implementation of Primary Syllabuses

At the end of last term, the Primary Teaching and Learning Team ran a one-hour webinar where we provided information to all our schools about the rollout of the four primary syllabuses: Creative Arts, HSIE, PDHPE and Science & Technology. These have all been released and schools now have two years (2025 and 2026) to become familiar with these and to rewrite all their documentation ready for mandatory implementation in 2027. 

If you were unable to attend the webinar, you can watch it here in your own time. 

Below, you will also find several documents that were referred to in the webinar.

  1. AISNSW Primary Syllabus Implementation 2024-2027 Booklet: This outlines a range of possible scenarios that you may wish to consider as you begin planning for implementation of the final four Primary syllabuses in your school. 
  2. A NESA School Registration Fact Sheet that provides advice to schools who may wish to implement one or more of the new syllabuses prior to 2027. 
  3. A flyer with details of our new Primary Curriculum Network that we will be launching in 2025. This will be open to all Primary Curriculum leaders in schools.