Intensive English Unit Student Handbook

Intensive English Unit Student 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 Unit

Middle School Intensive English Unit
The Intensive English Unit (IEU) at Sanderson Middle School is for Year 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 in reading, writing, speaking and listening and provide a pathway to mainstream education in the Middle and Secondary Years of schooling. The courses provide students with the skills to learn about Australia and how to study in Australian schools. On enrolment, students are assessed and placed into the most appropriate English course. This placement is reviewed every ten weeks, using the Northern Territory Curriculum Framework (NTCF) ESL Outcomes.

Lunch Room
A supervised lunch room is available for all IEU students. A microwave is available for students to heat up their lunch.

Mobile Phones
Mobile phones and cameras must be handed in at Student Reception every morning and collected after school.

Reporting and Parent / Teacher Interviews

Progress 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 Officers
The school has Bilingual Officers who assist parents to communicate with the school. When you contact the school, please ask to speak to the Bilingual Officer who speaks your language.

Attendance
Students 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 grounds between 8:00am and 2:10pm must sign out at Student Reception.

School Contacts
Telephone: Address: 8927 8899 Fax: 8927 2127 Matthews Road, Wulagi NT 0812

Book Packs
Book Packs for students are available from Student Reception and contain the books and stationery needed for school.

Uniforms
Students must wear a Sanderson Middle School shirt. Shirts can be bought from Student Reception using a Government voucher. For safety reasons, students must wear covered shoes (like sports shoes).

Contact Address
It is important that the school has a phone number to use if there is an emergency. Please notify the school when you change your phone number or address.
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Intensive English Overview

Beginners
English
ENIE1 Level 1 4 classes per day

Intermediate
English
ENIE2 Level 2 2 classes per day ENIE2A Level 2 2 classes per day ENIE3 Level 3 2 classes per day ENIE3A Level 3 2 classes per day

Exiting
English
ENIE4 ESL Level 4 2 classes per day

2 Courses per Term

PE (Sport)

Courses
The Language of Science

Maths

Health
EN2E+ ESL Level 5 1 class per day

Any 4 of the mainstream courses listed below

ENIE1A Level 1 4 classes per day

Performance Arts

Language of Art

Computing All About Darwin

Mainstream Courses

EN3E+ ESL Level 6 1 class

per day

Mainstream English Band 2

Mainstream Courses Mathematics Physical Education Computing Home Economics Technical Studies Science 3 Visual Arts Sewing Health & PE Film Making Music Drama

Intensive English - Beginners

ESL Level 1 Exit Outcomes Listening (2E) Speaking (2E) Reading (1C) Writing (1C) EsseNTial Learning Inner Learner 1 Description This 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 of Australian culture. It includes continued practice in listening, speaking, pronunciation, vocabulary building, grammar, reading, writing and learning strategies. Assessment Evidence of learning is provided through performance-based assessments including: role plays describing explaining retelling and paraphrasing stories ENIE1 ESL Level 1 Exit Outcomes Listening (2C) Speaking (2C) Reading (2E) Writing (2E) EsseNTial Learning Inner Learner 1 Description This 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. Students respond to short structured texts and communicate simple messages on familiar topics using copied texts and well-rehearsed language. Assessment Evidence of learning is provided through performance-based assessments including: oral reports role plays describing explaining summarising retelling and paraphrasing stories or text material ENIE1A

Intensive English - Intermediate

ESL Level 2 Exit Outcomes Listening (3S) Speaking (3S) Reading (2S) Writing (2S) EsseNTial Learning Inner Learner 1 Description This course is designed to assist students to improve and practise their 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 grammatical structures and sentence patterns using shared personal and cultural experience. Pre-writing and revision strategies are introduced. ENIE2 ESL Level 2 Exit Outcomes Listening (3C) Speaking (3C) Reading (3E) Writing (3E) EsseNTial Learning Inner Learner 1 Description This course focuses on reading strategies and cross curriculum vocabulary growth. Vocabulary and spelling exercises focus on developing understanding of words used across the middle school curriculum. Students learn to comprehend, recount and provide a written summary of the main ideas in short texts. Emphasis is on reading with understanding a range of simple texts from personal experience texts to simple texts from across the curriculum science, history, technology, etc. Assessment Evidence of learning is provided through: oral recounts of what they have learnt from their reading of factual texts written summaries of factual texts the sequence of events in stories performance based reading assessment writing assignments ENIE2A

Assessment Evidence of learning is provided through: responses to reading classroom communication writing journals samples of written work that have been generated from writing projects

Intensive English - Intermediate

ESL Level 3 Exit Outcomes Listening (4S) Speaking (4S) Reading (3S) Writing (3S) EsseNTial Learning Inner Learner 2 Description This course focuses on reading strategies and cross curriculum vocabulary 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 a text and some basic organisational features. They learn to identify the main idea in a paragraph or section of text and identify sequence of events in stories and other texts. Students become familiar with resources within the school library and learn how to locate and use texts for specific purposes. Assessment Evidence of learning is provided through: oral recounts of what they have learnt from their reading of factual texts written summaries of factual texts the sequence of events in stories performance based reading assessment writing assignments ENIE3 ESL Level 4 Exit Outcomes Listening (4C) Speaking (4C) Reading (4S) Writing (4S) EsseNTial Learning Constructive Learner 1 Description This course focuses on writing strategies. The emphasis is on the development of sentence structure and sentence variety to the paragraph level. Simple creative and personal texts and information texts are written based on modelled language. Writing is enhanced by using appropriate layout, accompanied by visual information, and presented in a variety of forms. ENIE3A

Assessment Evidence of learning is provided through: two pieces of Independent writing (creative / personal or informational)

Intensive English - Exiting

ESL Level 4 Outcomes Listening (5S) Speaking (5S) Reading (4C) Writing (4C) ENIE4 ESL Level 5 EN2E+ ESL Level 6 EN3E+

Outcomes Write coherent texts with sufficient control of linguistic structure and features (WL5.3) Apply strategies to comprehend and learn at whole text, sentence and word levels (RL5.4) EsseNTial Learning Creative Learner 1 Description This course focuses on writing short sequenced factual and imaginative texts. Simple sentences, punctuation and spelling conventions and less common grammar conventions are used. Writing is re-read and edited to revise and make the meaning clear. Simple, compound and complex sentences are written.

Outcomes Write coherent texts demonstrating an expanded range of SAE structural features for linking ideas (WL6.3) Relate SAE text format, structure and language choice to purpose and audience (RL6.2) EsseNTial Learning Collaborative Learner 1 Description This course focuses on writing short, grammatically sound, imaginative and factual texts that include related ideas about stories of people/characters in extreme circumstances. Simple sentences, punctuation and spelling conventions are used and simple, compound and complex sentences written. Sequenced ideas, joined by appropriate conjunctions are used. The narrative can take a number of forms. Writing is re-read and edited to revise and make the meaning clear. Assessment Evidence of learning is provided through: text investigation narrative text

EsseNTial Learning Constructive Learner 2 Description This course focuses on a variety of difficult structures in English grammar which are examined and practised both orally and in written work. A variety of texts are explored, including a shared novel, visual texts, short stories and factual texts including newspapers.

Assessment Evidence of learning is provided through: text investigation two pieces of Independent writing generated from the literature study

Assessment Evidence of learning is provided through: text investigation character profile/s a recount
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Intensive English Beginners Courses

All About Darwin Course Fees $25 Outcomes Social Systems and Structures EsseNTial Learning Constructive Learner 3 Description This course is designed for students who are new to Darwin and are beginning to learn English. The Darwin environment and facilities are explored and these experiences linked with language learning in the classroom. SE2S9+ Health HPIEU
IEU Maths MAIEU

It is compulsory for students to attend all excursions. Outcomes Promoting Individual and Community Health EsseNTial Learning Inner Learner 4 Description This course focuses on healthy bodies and identifying the health care services available in Darwin. The course involves locating health services by telephone and online; contacting an interpreter service; naming body parts and aspects of nutrition and choosing a healthy diet. Outcomes Number Skills EsseNTial Learning

Description This course gives an introduction to basic maths facts. It focuses on the English words and phrases that are essential in the area of maths. Topics include, counting and recognising numerals, pronunciation and understanding quantities, putting numbers in order, place value and ordinal numbers and multiplication and division. Assessment Evidence of learning is provided through: glossary of words portfolio of class work test or presentation

Assessment Evidence of learning is provided through a portfolio of information from community based research and oral recounts.

Assessment Evidence of learning is provided through the completion of a coursework journal.

Intensive English Beginners Courses

Operating Computer Components TD2I1+

Using Computers Course Free

TDIEU

The Language of Science Course Free Outcomes Science as Inquiry EsseNTial Learning Collaborative Learner 3

SCIEU

Outcomes Learning Technology Communication EsseNTial Learning Creative Learner 3 Description This course focuses on the use of Learning Technology to create and share information. A range of tools and applications to present data are used along with basic word processing conventions. Software is used to express words and pictures.

Outcomes Learning Technologies (R2, S2) EsseNTial Learning Constructive Learner 2 Description This course develops skills in using the Internet to research information and in using vocabulary and simple sentence structures to communicate what has been researched and how the information was obtained. Issues of plagiarism, recognising ownership of text and identifying reliable websites are also explored. Assessment Evidence of learning is provided through: selecting correct terminology in cloze exercises creating an electronic presentation on plagiarism extracting information from websites, and presenting it as bullet point notes using a word processor

Description This course covers the basic scientific text structures and language, and science safety, equipment and investigation. After doing this course, students may proceed to other science courses.

Assessment Evidence of learning is provided through being able to use one operating system and three different types of software.

Assessment Evidence of learning is provided through: reading assessment scientific demonstration designing a fair test

Intensive English Beginners Courses

Visual Art Course Fees $5 Outcomes Arts Skills and Processes ARIEU

Description This language based art course has been designed specifically for students who have English as another language. It provides the basis for proceeding to AR2V1 or AR2G1.

Assessment Evidence of learning is provided through a portfolio containing artworks.

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