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At Portland Secondary College language development is fostered through programs that are relevant to the everyday lives of our students.

This is encouraged through the provision of good models of extending experience, and of creating opportunities for complex thinking. These skills are emphasised in the Curriculum & Standards Framework modes of Reading, Writing, Speaking and Listening.

Value is placed on the skills of reflection, evaluation, analysis and critical appreciation.

Through literature (which includes Film As Text), students are exposed to a wider range of experiences and values. This is designed to deepen their understanding of the society in which they live.

It is the goal of this college that by the end of compulsory schooling students will be able to listen and speak with a high level of proficiency according to their developing maturity, and will have developed reading and writing skills which will support their own learning needs and a wide range of life's purposes.

Students from non-English-speaking backgrounds are also catered for with recognition and support for the differences in background, schooling, cultural experiences that they may bring to a mixed-ability classroom.

Students with particular interests in aspects of English are able to develop skills through Core Extension units in the middle school.

Units offered include Literature, The Art of Writing Fiction, Journalism, English Plus and Have Your Say and VCE Literature Unit 1 at Year 10 level.