Consultation 2025 – Pre-primary to Year 10 Languages

Contact
Nadia Civa (08) 9273 6355
Nadia.Civa@scsa.wa.edu.au

Teachers and stakeholders of Languages are invited to participate in public consultation for the proposed revisions of the Pre‑primary to Year 10 Languages curriculum.

The School Curriculum and Standards Authority (the Authority) is currently adopting and adapting the Australian Curriculum – Languages version 9 for the Pre‑primary to Year 10 Western Australian Curriculum: Languages.

Teachers and other stakeholders can participate in the consultation by reviewing the proposed revisions to the curriculum for Languages and completing the survey on the Authority website at https://k10outline.scsa.wa.edu.au/home/teaching/Consultation-Proposed-changes-to-P-10-Languages-curriculum from Thursday, 18 September to Wednesday, 15 October 2025.

The revised Languages curriculum will be available for familiarisation in 2026 and for implementation in 2027. The current Pre‑primary to Year 10 Western Australian Curriculum: Languages is the mandated curriculum for teaching in 2025 and 2026.

Pre-primary to Year 10: Humanities and Social Sciences, Mathematics, Science and Technologies curriculum familiarisation online focus meetings

Contact
Chris Kelley (08) 9273 6750
Chris.Kelley@scsa.wa.edu.au

The School Curriculum and Standards Authority is offering online learning area focus meetings during October and November to support schools with familiarisation with the Western Australian curriculum for Pre-primary to Year 10 Humanities and Social Sciences, Mathematics, Science and Technologies. These meetings will be an opportunity for teachers and curriculum leaders to gain a deeper understanding of specific aspects of the revised curriculum.

The focus areas for each session have been chosen from teacher feedback in the curriculum familiarisation workshops earlier in the year.

Register at https://scsa.wa.edu.au/news-and-events/all-events/Pre-primary-to-Year-10-Curriculum-familiarisation-online-focus-meetings.

More information regarding curriculum familiarisation professional learning opportunities is available at https://k10outline.scsa.wa.edu.au/home/resources/revised-western-australian-curriculum-familiarisation.

Music ATAR course designated works list 2026

Contact
Nick Fielding (08) 9273 6756
Nick.Fielding@scsa.wa.edu.au

The Music ATAR designated works list will not be updated for 2026.

This means that Year 11 students will study works from the current list in 2026, and Year 12 students will study works from the current list in 2026 and 2027.

An updated list will be published early in 2026 for implementation in Year 11 in 2027 and for Year 12 in 2028.

The Music ATAR designated works list 2023–2027 is available under the ‘Support Materials: Written component’ accordion on the Music page of the School Curriculum and Standards Authority website at https://senior-secondary.scsa.wa.edu.au/syllabus-and-support-materials/arts/music.

ATAR course written examinations school copy of Question/Answer booklet

Contact
Barclay Jones (08) 9273 6309
Barclay.Jones@scsa.wa.edu.au

Schools are permitted one copy of an ATAR course written examination Question/Answer booklet that has been sat by their students. To avoid disruption to candidates, the Question/Answer booklet/s will be delivered to the school reception/administration area of examination centres approximately one hour after the start of the examination working time or after the examination is completed, depending on Supervisor availability.

School staff must not enter or approach the examination room to request a copy of the Question/Answer booklet.

Each school must collect the copy from the reception of the examination centre at which their students are sitting the examination.

Please note for Question/Answer booklet/s:

• Large candidature examinations, such as English – often many teachers are delivering the course at a school; however, only one copy of the Question/Answer booklet is provided to each school.
• Language courses – candidates are often clustered at major examination centres for these courses. Each school is entitled to one copy of the Question/Answer booklet left with the school reception/administration at the examination centres.

If a school has students sitting an examination at an examination centre that is not located at their school and a school representative is unable to collect the examination paper from the other examination centre, a copy can be obtained by sending an email request to exams@scsa.wa.edu.au by Friday, 28 November 2025. Phone requests cannot be accepted.

Due to copyright provisions, spare copies of the Question/Answer booklet and inserts are not able to be provided to schools. For examinations with an aural component, no copies of the recording are provided to schools. For schools that do not have students sitting an ATAR course examination in 2025, a copy of Question/Answer booklet can be downloaded from the School Curriculum and Standards Authority website early in 2026.

2026 COAT contexts for Year 12 EAL/D ATAR

Contact
Lisa Honczarenko (08) 9273 6763
Lisa.Honczarenko@scsa.wa.edu.au

Max Leech (08) 9273 6740
Max.Leech@scsa.wa.edu.au

The syllabus contexts related to the 2026 Common oral assessment task (COAT) will be available from Friday, 26 September 2025 on the School Curriculum and Standards Authority (the Authority) website.

The COAT will be administered in schools during Weeks 4, 5, 6 and 7 of Term 2, 2026. All students enrolled in the Year 12 English as an Additional Language or Dialect (EAL/D) ATAR course are required to complete the COAT.

The COAT is based on Unit 3 syllabus contexts. The syllabus contexts, highlighted within the document, will be available on the EAL/D ATAR course page at https://senior-secondary.scsa.wa.edu.au/syllabus-and-support-materials/english/english-as-an-additional-language-or-dialect.

The Authority will publish the Common Oral Assessment Task Handbook 2026 in early 2026.

2026 EST content for all Year 12 General and Foundation courses

Contact
Lisa Honczarenko (08) 9273 6763
Lisa.Honczarenko@scsa.wa.edu.au

Nick Ognenis (08) 9273 6354
Nick.Ognenis@scsa.wa.edu.au

The syllabus content related to the 2026 externally set tasks (ESTs) will be available from Friday, 26 September 2025.

The EST will be administered in schools during Weeks 4, 5 and 6 of Term 2, 2026. All students enrolled in a Year 12 General or Year 12 Foundation course are required to complete the EST for that course.

The EST is based on Unit 3 syllabus content and the syllabus content, highlighted within the document, will be available from Friday, 26 September 2025 on the course pages of the School Curriculum and Standards Authority (the Authority) website at https://senior-secondary.scsa.wa.edu.au/.

All Foundation course ESTs will include the skills of literacy and numeracy in association with the identified 2026 EST Unit 3 content.

The Authority will publish the Externally Set Tasks Handbook 2026 in January 2026.

Applications for the development of the 2026 ATAR course examinations

Contact
Lisa Honczarenko (08) 9273 6763
Lisa.Honczarenko@scsa.wa.edu.au

Vanessa Mitchell (08) 9273 6360
Vanessa.Mitchell@scsa.wa.edu.au

The School Curriculum and Standards Authority (the Authority) invites applications from current and retired teachers, Technical and Further Education (TAFE) and university lecturers to participate in the development of the 2026 ATAR course examinations.

Positions that may be available for all examination panels are:

• Chief examiner
• Examiner
• Independent reviewer
• Paper checker.

The Authority is seeking applicants with at least three years’ experience in teaching and assessment, an excellent understanding of examination-setting techniques and familiarity with the syllabus to be examined in 2026 in the relevant course.

The Authority may offer a panel position different from those selected on the original application form.

All Examination panel members must have a current Nationally Coordinated Criminal History Check (NCCHC) and a Screening Clearance Number (SCN), which is issued by the Department of Education. You will be informed if your NCCHC is current if you are appointed to the 2026 ATAR examination panel. If it is not current, you will have to obtain an NCCHC before commencing.

Applications for positions are to be made on the Authority website
at https://scsa.wa.edu.au/about-us/employment.

Further information about these positions, including Terms of Reference, Duties of Members, the Code of Conduct and an Indicative Timeline for members of the examination panels, is available online.

Applications must be received no later than 5 pm on Friday, 24 October 2025. Successful applicants will be contacted and appointments to positions finalised by Friday, 14 November 2025.

2026 Dance ATAR Year 12 practical (performance) examination set solo materials

Contact
Terry Pirlo (08) 9273 6722
Terry.Pirlo@scsa.wa.edu.au

Clair Lang (08) 9273 6720
Clair.Lang@scsa.wa.edu.au

The set solo for the 2026 Dance ATAR Year 12 practical (performance) examination will be Set Solo 3 – Olympics. All schools were sent a copy of the USB containing the set solo materials in 2023. If a school does not have a copy of the USB, contact the School Curriculum and Standards Authority.

The USB contains the set solo video footage (full performance, breakdown of phrases with music and breakdown of phrases with notes), music track for the set solo, detailed breakdown notes of each phrase and technical notes, which include the choreographer’s intent. Candidates enrolled in Dance ATAR Year 12 in 2026 will be required to learn Set Solo 3 – Olympics for Performance two of the ATAR Dance course practical (performance) examination.

Search for a WASN in SIRS

Contact
Data Services (08) 9273 6352
numbers@scsa.wa.edu.au
dataservices@scsa.wa.edu.au

All current students in Western Australia should be registered with the School Curriculum and Standards Authority (the Authority) and should have an allocated Western Australian student number (WASN).

If a student arrives at your school from another school in Western Australia, or from overseas/interstate, you have the ability to search in the Student Information Records System (SIRS) for that student’s WASN using a family name, given name and date of birth.

Instructions on how to search for a student number may be found in Section 4.3 of the Data Procedures Manual 2025 available at https://www.scsa.wa.edu.au/publications/data-procedures-manual.

All student registrations are recorded in SIRS by the end of Term 1. After this time, you will be able to search for students including the student’s previous school/s. You will know where to send a transfer note, if required.

Help with WASNs

If the details you have requested are different from the information in SIRS (e.g. date of birth is different, Jackie is spelt as Jacky), no information will be found. If you are unable to locate a student number, please email numbers@scsa.wa.edu.au and provide the student’s:

• Family Name
• Given Name
• Date of Birth
• Academic Year
• Previous School (if known).

Also include your provider code in the email.

Year 7 students

All secondary schools with a Year 7 intake can send a complete list (spreadsheet) of Year 7 students entering their school in 2026, including the student’s legal family name, legal given name and date of birth and the Authority will look up the WASNs on their behalf.

Troubleshooting

Additional information to support SIRS users with troubleshooting is available in Section 4.9 of the Data Procedures Manual 2025 available at https://www.scsa.wa.edu.au/publications/data-procedures-manual.

Applications for permission to enrol in a WACE Language course Years 11 or 12 2026

Contact
Nadia Civa (08) 9273 6355
Nadia.Civa@scsa.wa.edu.au

The last date for submission of an Application for permission to enrol in a WACE Languages course in 2026 has passed and action is required by students and/or schools for outstanding submissions by Friday, 17 October 2025.

Students who have started an application but have not submitted it and have decided not to continue their study of a language in senior secondary Years 11 or 12, are encouraged to cancel the application in the Student portal.

Students who intend to continue with their application are advised to complete it as soon as possible and submit in the Student portal.

Any application that has not been submitted by Friday, 17 October 2025 will be deleted from the system.

For further information email languagesenrolment@scsa.wa.edu.au.

Application for recording of enrolment and achievement in ATAR Units 1 and 2 for students in Year 10 in 2027 (Year 8, 2025)

Contact
Kerry Tarrant (08) 9273 6770
Kerry.Tarrant@scsa.wa.edu.au

The Application for recording of enrolment and achievement in ATAR Units 1 and 2 for students in Year 10 in 2027 (Year 8, 2025) is available on the School Curriculum and Standards Authority website. This application form is available at https://scsa.wa.edu.au/forms/forms under the Enrolments tab.

The completed application form is to be emailed to certification@scsa.wa.edu.au no later than Thursday, 20 November 2025.

Schools should only apply if the studies are part of a longer-term program for students who are:

• gifted and talented, or
• accelerated language students.

For further information, refer to Section 7.2.4 in the WACE Manual 2025 available at https://scsa.wa.edu.au/publications/wace-manual.

Folio of achievement 2025

Contact
Perpetua Joseph (08) 9273 6771
Perpetua.Joseph@scsa.wa.edu.au

Students who completed Year 12 in 2025, will be able to download digital copies of their folio of achievement in mid-January 2026.

To download digital copies of the documents and certificates, students need to log in to the Student portal at https://studentportal.scsa.wa.edu.au with their eight-digit Western Australian student number (WASN) and password.

Year 12 students who have satisfactorily completed any Western Australian Certificate of Education (WACE) course unit, Preliminary unit, VET unit of competency (including Department of Training and Workforce Development funded VET skill sets) or endorsed program will have a folio of achievement. This folio of achievement will include one or more of the following:

• Western Australian Statement of Student Achievement (WASSA)
• WACE
• ATAR course report
• award certificates, if attained.

Details relating to this year’s folio of achievement will be available in The WACE 2025 – Your guide to the Western Australian Statement of Student Achievement, Western Australian Certificate of Education and ATAR Course Report. This information guide will be available on the School Curriculum and Standards Authority website at https://senior-secondary.scsa.wa.edu.au/the-wace/wace-requirements in early Term 4.

Year 12 ATAR course examination results

Year 12 students, as well as the Year 11 students, who sit the 2025 ATAR course examinations will be able to access their results mid-December 2025 via the Student portal at https://studentportal.scsa.wa.edu.au.

Supporting curriculum delivery through professional association contacts

Contact
Lisa Griffin (08) 9273 6779
Lisa.Griffin@scsa.wa.edu.au

The School Curriculum and Standards Authority (the Authority) recognises the significance of its relationships with professional associations across Western Australia. These associations play an important role in supporting schools and teachers in the delivery of high-quality curriculum and assessment.

Professional associations contribute by:

• providing subject-specific professional learning opportunities
• offering practical resources and teaching ideas aligned to the curriculum
• creating networks for teachers to share expertise and collaborate
• keeping schools informed of current developments in their subject areas.

The Authority encourages schools to connect with relevant professional association/s, as they offer valuable guidance and support that complement the Authority’s work with schools.