Subject renewal is one of the key initiatives of Passport to Thrive – the SACE Board’s Strategic Plan for 2024-2027 – and a roadmap outlining the proposed pace and phases of Subject Renewal has been determined.

Revising the number of assessments, and sharpening the content of subjects and how they are designed, will ensure the SACE is a modern and responsive qualification for a changing world. 

For students, subject renewal will enable deeper, real-world learning, develop disciplinary knowledge and embed capabilities. 

In line with the Strategic Plan’s focus on capabilities, it will incorporate a fuller appreciation of what students know and can do – not merely their performance in class, their knowledge and recall of facts and figures, or their test and exam results. 

Subject renewal recognises the vital role that teachers play in student learning – understanding where each student is at in their development, knowing when to provide support, and when to step back and allow them to flourish. 

The subject renewal program will focus on five areas that have emerged in recent years as the most important, and that were highlighted during the 2024 Curriculum Forums: 

• Student agency – students are proactive in the co-creation of their learning pathway and influence how they undertake, demonstrate and action their learning 
• Deep authentic learning – students discuss and apply learning from familiar and unfamiliar situations across a range of meaningful and relevant real-world situations 
• Natural evidence of learning – captures the diverse authentic forms of students' demonstration of learning and achievement, better reflecting what students know and can do 
• Metacognition – students understand and evaluate their thinking to regulate the way they learn 
• Capabilities – SACE Capabilities are complex competencies: a mixture of elements including attitudes, skills, values, knowledge, and beliefs that are developed directly and indirectly through learning and assessment design. The capabilities valued by the SACE Board include Collective engagement, Personal enterprise, Principled action, Quality thinking and Self-motivated learning. 

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Support 
If you have any questions or inquiries about our Subject Renewal program, our askSACE team can assist.
Please phone 1300 322 920 or email askSACE@sa.gov.au.