Sporting Chance
Years 7 - 8
Three-week Program
What do a boxing ring, a football field and a chessboard have in common?
Pressure. Stakes. Stories.
This program uses sport and games as a starting line to engage all students, transforming competition into powerful writing. From Muhammad Ali's bravado to Judit Polgar's quiet strategy and Nicky Winmar's tense defiance, students explore what it means to show good sportsmanship and use their stories as inspiration to experiment with voice and poetic techniques.
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Plan, draft and publish imaginative, informative and persuasive texts, selecting aspects of subject matter and particular language, visual, and audio features to convey information and ideas (ACELY1725)
Create literary texts that adapt stylistic features encountered in other texts, for example, narrative viewpoint, structure of stanzas, contrast and juxtaposition (ACELT1625)
Create imaginative, informative and persuasive texts that raise issues, report events and advance opinions, using deliberate language and textual choices, and including digital elements as appropriate (ACELY1736 )
Create literary texts that draw upon text structures and language features of other texts for particular purposes and effects (ACELT1632)
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Creates personal, creative and critical texts for a range of audiences by using linguistic and stylistic conventions of language to express ideas (EN4-ECA-01)
Uses processes of planning, monitoring, revising and reflecting to support and develop composition of texts (EN4-ECB-01)
Available in Semester 2, 2026.
