Secondary Years 11 & 12
In Years 11 and 12, students choose from a range of Pathways as they prepare for their future directions. In order to achieve a Queensland Certificate of Education (QCE), these pathways include;
- an ATAR for Tertiary Study
- Traineeship and Apprenticeships
- Vocational Education through an RTO
The Curriculum Areas on offer at Hills Secondary College with the Queensland Curriculum Assessment Authority (QCAA) are as follows;
- English (General and Essential, Literature)
- Mathematics (General, Mathematical Methods, Essential Mathematics)
- Science (Biology, Physics, Chemistry, Psychology)
- Humanities (Business, Ancient History, Modern History, Philosophy and Reason, Legal Studies, Social and Community)
- Languages (Japanese and Chinese)
- Technologies (Design, Information and Communication, Fashion)
- The Arts (Music, Visual Arts, Drama. Media Arts in Practice, Drama in Practice, Film, TV & New Media, Music Extension - Composition, Music Extension - Performance, Music Extension - Musicology)
- Health and Physical Education (Physical Education, Sport and Recreation)
- Short Courses (Literacy, Numeracy, Career Education)
Academic courses encourage increasing personal responsibility for learning with various approaches to teaching pedagogies complementing and enhancing each student’s unique abilities and interests. Our aspiration at Hills College is to engage students in quality learning experiences that are structured to stimulate and challenge. Becoming a community of learners oriented to lifelong learning as well as learning about how to think rather than what to think is of upmost importance, so that our students can continue to prepare for a life of worth and not simply a life of work.