HSC Italian Beginners – External Provider

Studying Italian for the HSC in 2025

Marco Polo – The Italian School of Sydney is committed to the external provision of quality teaching and learning of Italian to assist students enrolled in day schools in Sydney’s West and South West to enrol in the Stage 6 Italian Beginners course for their Higher School Certificate (HSC).

An external provider is any organisation that a secondary high school (public, Catholic or Independent) has entered into an arrangement with to deliver a specified course of study that is part of the curriculum to a student or students enrolled at the school. See the NESA website for more information about external providers of Stage 6 HSC Courses.

School Principals may give approval for a student to study additional course(s) with an external provider, including Italian Beginners as a NESA course for the HSC. This typically occurs because a student cannot access the course at their weekday school. It is the school’s decision whether to use external providers.

Parents intending to engage Marco Polo – The Italian School of Sydney as an external provider for Italian Beginners must first liaise with their child’s school. The registered school needs to ensure that the courses outsourced comprise a minority of each student’s overall pattern of study for each Stage of learning (except with approval from NESA).

Enrol in the HSC Italian Beginners – External Provider Course

Students seeking to enrol in the external provider HSC Beginners Course at Marco Polo – The Italian School of Sydney 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 course requested must not be available for study at the student’s weekday school.

Applications for studying Italian Beginners close in Week 9, Term 4 of every year. Late applications will be considered if places remain in the courses.

A completed Enrolment /Agreement Application Form is required for new enrolments in this course. The form must be signed by the student and parent/carer, as well as the Curriculum Coordinator and Principal or Deputy Principal of the weekday school.

When the application has been approved, the student, Curriculum Coordinator and parents/carers will receive a confirmation of enrolment email. This email will indicate the date that the student will commence studies through us as external providers. Students cannot attend classes until they have received a confirmation email.

What does it look like studying HSC Italian Beginners?

Familiarise yourself with the demands of the HSC subject by reading the Subject Overview. More comprehensive information about studying through an external provider with us can be found in the HSC Italian Beginners Student Handbook.

Curriculum, Assessment & Reporting

All students enrolled in the HSC Italian Beginners Course at Marco Polo – The Italian School of Sydney will receive an Assessment Information Booklet at the beginning of the school year which will detail the dates, weightings, objectives, outcomes, and types of assessment tasks to be completed.  Students will also receive a notification for each assessment task at least two weeks before the date of the task. 

Important Assessment Documents

• Request for Consideration
• Assessment Appeal Form
  

Assessment Schedules

• Yr 11 Preliminary Assessment Schedule (2025)
• HSC Assessment Schedule (2025)
  

Scope & Sequence

• Yr 11 Preliminary Scope & Sequence (2025)
• HSC Scope & Sequence (2025)

Please contact our office via email learning@cnansw.org.au or call us on (02) 8786 0888 for further information regarding external provision of HSC Italian Beginners.