Stage 4 English Teaching Resources

This curriculum based Secondary English Stage 4 Unit Outline includes a 3-4 week staged based lesson plan and activities for teachers to download.

Creating quality Teacher Resources

At Surf Lifesaving NSW our mission is simple; save lives, create great Australians and build better communities. In order to do this, we want to provide our schools, teachers and students with the best possible programs, resources and opportunities to engage with us and learn about water safety, the beach and coastal environments. These Secondary Unit Outline resources have been created specifically to help teachers integrate beach and coastal safety information and broader water safety activities and our programs into your lesson plans in an easy and simple way.

The beach has a place in everyone's story

Surf Life Saving is much more than just saving lives on the beach

A key priority for us is reaching out to all Australians through our substantial community education programs. We aim to teach all Australians how to keep themselves and their families safe at the beach.

This unit and associated resources focus on delivering the key water safety message that the beach is a place for everyone to safely experience the beach, coastline and inland waterways. It also gives students an opportunity to further develop their literacy skills, address the Cross-Curriculum Priorities of the NSW Curriculum and give students to experience authentic learning by creating meaningful projects through inquiry-based tasks.

  • That the beach is a part of everyone’s story and is a place of inclusivity, energy and place to enhance health and wellbeing.
  • The beach is always changing.
  • Planning your students for a safe and fun beach experience with themselves, their mates and family.
  • Know the beach they are going to. Know their safety plan.
  • Fight the mob mentality and be self-aware of their own and their mates competency if they are in an unsafe situation on the beach.
  • Find the red and yellow flags and swim between them
  • Look for, and read the safety signs
  • Ask a lifesaver or lifeguard for safety advice
  • Go swimming with an adult
  • Signal for help if you get into trouble in the wate

What you will find in this resource:

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Unit Outline

The learning intention in this unit is to give students strategies to prevent unnecessary drownings and practice safe behaviours at the beach.
Syllabus Outcomes

NSW Syllabus Outcomes

English K-10. Engage personally with texts, develop and apply contextual knowledge understand language forms, respond and compose texts.
Lessons

3-4 Week Lesson Plan & Tasks

Story telling, multimodel stories of the beach, reflections of the Tracks surf magazine, planning for researching the beach culture.
Resources

Resources

Links to subject specific resources.
Activity Sheet S4-English

Activity Sheets

Downloadable resources.
Other resources

Other Resources

Links to Scootle and other resources

Builds on the foundational skills developed in the earlier years to support the growing knowledge, understanding and skills in the areas of Reading, viewing and listening to texts, Understanding and responding to texts and Expressing ideas and composing text.

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English S4 Unit Outline and Resources

Please download the Stage 4 English Unit Outline which includes a 3-4 week lesson plan and related resources here:
Please download ALL of the above resources in a convenient zip file here.

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