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Student Handbook

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Intensive English UnitStudent Handbook

Contents

Sanderson Middle School Intensive English Unit ................................................................ 2

Intensive English Overview ........................................................................................................ 3

Intensive English Beginners ................................................................................................... 4

Intensive English Intermediate .............................................................................................. 5

Intensive English Exiting .......................................................................................................... 7

Intensive English Beginners Courses ................................................................................... 8

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Sanderson Middle School Intensive English UnitMiddle School Intensive English UnitThe Intensive English Unit (IEU) at Sanderson Middle School is forYear 7, 8 and 9 students who speak English as another Language

and are from a country where English is not the main language.The students enrol in courses that teach English language skills inreading, writing, speaking and listening and provide a pathway tomainstream education in the Middle and Secondary Years ofschooling.

The courses provide students with the skills to learn about Australiaand how to study in Australian schools.

On enrolment, students are assessed and placed into the mostappropriate English course. This placement is reviewed every tenweeks, using the Northern Territory Curriculum Framework (NTCF)

ESL Outcomes.

AttendanceStudents are expected to arrive at school by 8:00am

Students arriving late to school must sign in at Student Reception.

Students with written permission from parents to leave the groundsbetween 8:00am and 2:10pm must sign out at Student Reception.

Book PacksBook Packs for students are available from Student Reception and

contain the books and stationery needed for school.

Contact AddressIt is important that the school has a phone number to use if there isan emergency. Please notify the school when you change yourphone number or address.

Lunch RoomA supervised lunch room is available for all IEU students. Amicrowave is available for students to heat up their lunch.

Mobile PhonesMobile phones and cameras must be handed in at StudentReception every morning and collected after school.

Reporting and Parent / Teacher InterviewsProgress Reports are sent home in the middle of each Term.

Student reports are sent home at the end of each Term.

Parents are invited to meet with teachers in Term 1 and Term 3.

Bilingual OfficersThe school has Bilingual Officers who assist parents to communicatewith the school. When you contact the school, please ask to speakto the Bilingual Officer who speaks your language.

School ContactsTelephone: 8927 8899 Fax: 8927 2127

Address: Matthews Road, Wulagi NT 0812

UniformsStudents must wear a Sanderson Middle School shirt. Shirts can bebought from Student Reception using a Government voucher.

For safety reasons, students must wear covered shoes (like sportsshoes).

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Intensive English OverviewBeginners Intermediate Exiting

English 2 Courses per Term English Courses EnglishENIE1Level 1

4 classes

per day

ENIE1A

Level 1

4 classes

per day

The Language ofScience

Maths

Performance Arts

Computing

PE (Sport)

Health

Language of Art

All About Darwin

Mainstream

Courses

EN3E+

ESL Level 6

1 class

per day

EN2E+

ESL Level 5

1 class

per day

ENIE4ESL Level 4

2 classes

per day

Any 4 of the

mainstream

courses listed

below

Mainstream

English

Band 2

Mainstream Courses

Mathematics Home Economics Visual Arts Film Making

Physical Education Technical Studies Sewing Music

Computing Science Health & PE Drama

ENIE2Level 2

2 classes

per day

ENIE2A

Level 2

2 classes

per day

ENIE3

Level 32 classes

per day

ENIE3A

Level 3

2 classes

per day

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Intensive English - BeginnersESL Level 1 ENIE1Exit Outcomes Listening (2E) Speaking (2E) Reading (1C) Writing (1C)EsseNTial Learning Inner Learner 1DescriptionThis course focuses on the use of basic Standard Australian English(SAE) language skills needed to communicate in the classroom,school and the community. The emphasis of this course is to

improve English proficiency and develop an understanding ofAustralian culture. It includes continued practice in listening,speaking, pronunciation, vocabulary building, grammar, reading,writing and learning strategies.

AssessmentEvidence of learning is provided through performance-basedassessments including:

role plays describing explaining retelling and paraphrasing stories

ESL Level 1 ENIE1AExit Outcomes Listening (2C) Speaking (2C) Reading (2E) Writing (2E)EsseNTial Learning Inner Learner 1DescriptionThis course focuses on the use of basic Standard Australian English(SAE) language skills needed to communicate in the classroom,school and the community. Students identify key words and well

known phrases and discriminate some SAE sounds. Studentsrespond to short structured texts and communicate simplemessages on familiar topics using copied texts and well-rehearsedlanguage.

AssessmentEvidence of learning is provided through performance-basedassessments including:

oral reports role plays describing explaining summarising retelling and paraphrasing stories or text material

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Intensive English - IntermediateESL Level 2 ENIE2Exit Outcomes Listening (3S) Speaking (3S) Reading (2S) Writing (2S)EsseNTial Learning Inner Learner 1DescriptionThis course is designed to assist students to improve and practisetheir spoken English and written grammar. Past, present and future

verb tenses are studied in the simple, progressive and perfect forms.There is a focus on recognising and practising grammaticalstructures and sentence patterns using shared personal and culturalexperience. Pre-writing and revision strategies are introduced.

AssessmentEvidence of learning is provided through:

responses to reading classroom communication writing journals samples of written work that have been generated from writing

projects

ESL Level 2 ENIE2AExit Outcomes Listening (3C) Speaking (3C) Reading (3E) Writing (3E)EsseNTial Learning Inner Learner 1DescriptionThis course focuses on reading strategies and cross curriculumvocabulary growth. Vocabulary and spelling exercises focus on

developing understanding of words used across the middle schoolcurriculum. Students learn to comprehend, recount and provide awritten summary of the main ideas in short texts. Emphasis is onreading with understanding a range of simple texts from personalexperience texts to simple texts from across the curriculum science, history, technology, etc.

AssessmentEvidence of learning is provided through:

oral recounts of what they have learnt from their reading offactual texts

written summaries of factual texts

the sequence of events in stories performance based reading assessment writing assignments

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Intensive English - IntermediateESL Level 3 ENIE3Exit Outcomes Listening (4S)

Speaking (4S) Reading (3S) Writing (3S)EsseNTial Learning Inner Learner 2DescriptionThis course focuses on reading strategies and cross curriculumvocabulary growth. Emphasis is on reading with understanding a

range of simple texts from across the curriculum

science, history,technology, etc. Students learn to identify the main purpose of atext and some basic organisational features. They learn to identifythe main idea in a paragraph or section of text and identifysequence of events in stories and other texts. Students becomefamiliar with resources within the school library and learn how tolocate and use texts for specific purposes.

AssessmentEvidence of learning is provided through:

oral recounts of what they have learnt from their reading offactual texts

written summaries of factual texts the sequence of events in stories performance based reading assessment writing assignments

ESL Level 4 ENIE3AExit Outcomes Listening (4C) Speaking (4C) Reading (4S) Writing (4S)EsseNTial Learning Constructive Learner 1DescriptionThis course focuses on writing strategies. The emphasis is on thedevelopment of sentence structure and sentence variety to the

paragraph level. Simple creative and personal texts and informationtexts are written based on modelled language. Writing is enhancedby using appropriate layout, accompanied by visual information,and presented in a variety of forms.

AssessmentEvidence of learning is provided through:

two pieces of Independent writing (creative / personal orinformational)

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Intensive English - ExitingESL Level 4 ENIE4Outcomes Listening (5S) Speaking (5S) Reading (4C) Writing (4C)

EsseNTial Learning Constructive Learner 2DescriptionThis course focuses on a variety of difficult

structures in English grammar which areexamined and practised both orally and inwritten work. A variety of texts areexplored, including a shared novel, visualtexts, short stories and factual textsincluding newspapers.

AssessmentEvidence of learning is provided through:

text investigation two pieces of Independent writing

generated from the literature study

ESL Level 5 EN2E+Outcomes Write coherent texts with sufficient

control of linguistic structure andfeatures (WL5.3)

Apply strategies to comprehend andlearn at whole text, sentence andword levels (RL5.4)

EsseNTial Learning Creative Learner 1DescriptionThis course focuses on writing short

sequenced factual and imaginative texts.Simple sentences, punctuation andspelling conventions and less commongrammar conventions are used. Writing isre-read and edited to revise and make themeaning clear. Simple, compound andcomplex sentences are written.

AssessmentEvidence of learning is provided through:

text investigation character profile/s a recount

ESL Level 6 EN3E+Outcomes Write coherent texts demonstrating an

expanded range of SAE structuralfeatures for linking ideas (WL6.3)

Relate SAE text format, structure andlanguage choice to purpose andaudience (RL6.2)

EsseNTial Learning Collaborative Learner 1DescriptionThis course focuses on writing short,

grammatically sound, imaginative andfactual texts that include related ideasabout stories of people/characters inextreme circumstances. Simple sentences,punctuation and spelling conventions areused and simple, compound and complexsentences written. Sequenced ideas, joinedby appropriate conjunctions are used. Thenarrative can take a number of forms.Writing is re-read and edited to revise andmake the meaning clear.

AssessmentEvidence of learning is provided through:

text investigation narrative text

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Intensive English Beginners CoursesVisual Art ARIEUCourse Fees $5Outcomes Arts Skills and Processes

DescriptionThis language based art course has beendesigned specifically for students whohave English as another language.

It provides the basis for proceeding to

AR2V1 or AR2G1.

AssessmentEvidence of learning is provided through aportfolio containing artworks.

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