SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL — YR 11–12

Small enough that you can't hide. Good enough that you won't want to. 

Maximum Capacity for Any Class

6

No class at Foci holds more than six students. That number is a pedagogical decision, not a scheduling convenience — it is the threshold at which every student in the room can be known, challenged, and heard within a single session.

Cadence of classes

10x

One session per week across the full ten weeks of term. The rhythm is deliberate: consistent enough to build on the previous week, spaced enough for students to read, write, and return with something new to say.

duration of lessons

90 mins

Ninety minutes is long enough to move through a text slowly — to follow an argument to its conclusion, sit with a difficult passage, and write something worth keeping. Most of what happens in the second half of a lesson wouldn't be possible in the first.

WHAT GROUP LESSONS ARE

What This Class Is.

Years 11 and 12 are the years in which students discover what they are actually capable of — if someone gives them the room to find out. At Foci, that room is small by design. Every Senior High class holds no more than six students, which means there is nowhere to disappear and no reason to. The conversation is the lesson.

Sessions are structured around close reading, textual discussion, and the kind of sustained writing practice that the HSC demands but rarely teaches well. Students work with their set texts, their modules, and their own arguments — but the method is always the same: read more carefully, think more precisely, write with greater control. We are not interested in shortcuts. We are interested in students who know why their answer is right.

What distinguishes Foci's group format is not the small class size, though that matters. It is that discussion is treated as a form of thinking, not a warm-up activity. Students who learn to articulate their ideas aloud — to respond to a counterargument, to defend a reading, to change their mind when the evidence demands it — write better essays. The correlation is reliable. We build it deliberately.


Two students studying together in a test prep group course setting. 
Curriculum Coverage

Every module. Every text type. Both Extensions.



  • PRELIMINARY

    Reading to Write
    Module A: Narratives that Shape Our World
    Module B: Close Study of Literature
    Module C: Craft of Writing

    HSC

    Texts and Human Experiences
    Module A: Textual Conversations
    Module B: Critical Study of Literature
    Module C: The Craft of Writing

    Prescribed texts vary by school. Classes address all modules regardless of text selection.


  • Year 11

    Reading to Write
    Module A:Narratives that Shape Our World
    Module B: Close Study of Literature
    Module C: Craft of Writing

    Year 12

    Texts and Human Experiences
    Module A: Textual Conversations
    Module B: Critical Study of Literature
    Module C: The Craft of Writing

    Prescribed texts vary by school. Classes address all modules regardless of text selection.


  • Year 11

    Texts, Culture and Values

    Year 12

    Literary Worlds

    Extension 1 runs as a separate class. Enrolment is independent of Standard or Advanced.


  • HSC ONLY

    An extended independent writing project developed across Year 12. Students select a genre, produce a sustained piece of original writing, and submit a critical reflection on their process and creative decisions.

    Extension 2 has no Preliminary component. Places are limited — enquire early.


Pricing

Group classes, billed per term.

Quarterly enrolment is the standard arrangement. Families who commit to the full academic year hold their place across all four terms.

Years 11–12 · Standard/Adv

$1,100 per term (10 weeks)

$1,250 per term (10 weeks)

Years 11–12 · Extension 1

$1,400 per term (10 weeks)

Years 11–12 · Extension 2

Private tuition with a Principal educator is available by enquiry. Rates are not published.

Proven results you can trust

Their guidance extended far beyond the classroom and I couldn't think of a tuition centre that could replicate what they have created.

— Vivian Yue, Former Student

I attended Foci Education for three years and graduated in the year 2022. It has exceeded all my expectations. The tutors, David and Emma, go above and beyond for their students. This centre provided more than academic assistance, supporting us even emotionally during exam periods

— Rachel Dinh, Former Student

Being a student here has been valuable for me, because not only have I been able to improve in English and achieve a Band 6 for my HSC, I was taught the values I needed to carry into the real world. 

— Joy Guo, Former Student

The right class changes what a student thinks they are capable of.


Senior High enrolments are taken per term. Places are held from the point of confirmation — they do not carry over. If you are thinking about this year's HSC preparation or early Year 11 enrolment, enquire now and we will confirm availability.