Start your enrolment with Secondary College of Languages by reading through the Enrolment Booklet. Once you are ready, download and complete the enrolment application form and required appendices.
Enrolment Information and forms
2022 Enrolment Booklet
The 2022 Enrolment Booklet contains all the infomation you need to successfully enrol in your courses at Secondary College of Languages. It contains infomation such as the enrolment process and available student support.
2022 Enrolment Application Form
A completed 2022 enrolment application form is required for enrolment at SCL. The form must be signed by the student and parent/carer, as well as the SCL Coordinator and Principal of the weekday school.
When the application has been approved, the student, SCL Coordinator and parents/carers will receive a confirmation of enrolment email. This email will indicate the date that the student will commence studies.
Students cannot attend classes until they have received a confirmation email.
2022 Enrolment Appendix 1
A late enrolment is any application that is submitted after 25 February 2022. All late applications must include a completed Appendix 1.
Late applications may be submitted throughout the year for students in Years 7, 8 and 9. Consideration will be given to students in special circumstances or where there is an identified welfare issue. Late applications for students in Years 10, 11 and 12 may be submitted by students in the selected circumstances. See Enrolment Booklet for more information.
The approval of late applications will be determined by the SCL Principal on a case-by-case basis.
2022 Enrolment Appendix 2
If you are applying for Language in Context course, your application must include a completed Appendix 2 and relevant supporting documentation.
Exisiting Year 10 students who are applying to study a Year 11 Language in Context course in 2022 must also complete a new enrolment application form and attach Appendix 2.
2022 Enrolment Appendix 3
Recognition of prior learning is a strategy for students to enter a course without having completed the previous year or stage.
Students seeking to advance into a language course should submit a completed Appendix 3 with supporting documentation with their enrolment application. Approval will be determined by the SCL Principal on a case-by-case basis.
2022 Enrolment Appendix 4
Students who are currently enrolled at SCL must complete and return the Confirmation of Continuing Enrolment form it by 13 November 2021 to confirm their enrolment intentions for 2022 .
2022 Enrolment Appendix 5
All students applying for acceleration at SCL in a Language course must read through the Policy and complete the Application for Acceleration form.
The final decision regarding acceleration will be made by the SCL Principal.
Completed application form and supporting documents should be forwarded to SCLanguages.School@det.nsw.edu.au by the weekday school.
Eligibility
Students seeking to enrol at the Secondary College of Languages must meet the following eligibility criteria:
- The student must be enrolled with a public school or other educational provider (including a non-government school or TAFE college) at the time of study.
- The language requested must be the student’s heritage/background community language.
- The language course requested must not be available for study at the student’s weekday school.
Students seeking to enrol in [Language] in Context courses must also satisfy NESA’s eligibility requirements that the student must not have had any formal education in a school where the language of the course requested is the medium of instruction beyond the year in which the student turns 10 years of age (typically Year 4 or 5 of primary education).
Speakers of dialects and variants of a language (e.g. Hokkien, Cantonese, Shanghainese) are considered to be speakers of the standard language (e.g. Mandarin).
Prospective students are encouraged to visit the NESA website to read more and access case studies.