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Crossroads
Crossroads is a mandatory personal development and health education course for Years 11 and 12 students in NSW government schools. The course provides an opportunity for Stage 6 students to extend and build on the outcomes achieved in Personal Development Health and Physical Education from Years 7 to 10.
The Crossroads course aims to help prepare senior students to lead, and contribute to, lives which are healthy and promote social justice.
The course is divided into two focus areas: Working at relationships and Drug issues. Each focus area is organised into four themes as shown below.
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Assessment requirements
There is no formal assessment or examination for this course.
Time requirements for the course
The Crossroads course will be implemented for a minimum indicative time of 25 hours. This can be completed in Year 11 or 12 or both.
Crossroads is a requirement of the Department of Education and training. It is not a Board of Studies course. Hence, it does not form a component of the HSC requirement.