{"id":3118,"date":"2026-04-11T18:38:51","date_gmt":"2026-04-11T08:38:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newington.nsw.edu.au\/academic-guides\/academic-guide-years-7-8\/mandatory-courses\/"},"modified":"2026-04-12T17:05:48","modified_gmt":"2026-04-12T07:05:48","slug":"mandatory-courses","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.newington.nsw.edu.au\/academic-guides\/academic-guide-years-7-8\/mandatory-courses\/","title":{"rendered":"Mandatory Courses"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Compulsory Curriculum<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The curriculum structure in Year 8 is designed to meet the mandatory requirements listed by the NSW Education Standards Authority. Boys study a series of mandatory subjects in addition to two electives of their choice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Mandatory Subjects<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>English<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Geography<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>History<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Mathematics<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Music<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>PDHPE<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Philosophy and Religious Studies<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Science<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Technology<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Visual Arts<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Elective Courses<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Choose from this selection of Electives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newington.nsw.edu.au\/academic-guides\/academic-guide-years-7-8\/elective-courses\/\" data-type=\"page\" data-id=\"3119\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Compulsory Curriculum The curriculum structure in Year 8 is designed to meet the mandatory requirements listed by the NSW Education Standards Authority. Boys study a series of mandatory subjects in addition to two electives of their choice. Mandatory Subjects Elective Courses Choose from this selection of Electives. Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":3117,"parent":3102,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-3118","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newington.nsw.edu.au\/academic-guides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3118","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newington.nsw.edu.au\/academic-guides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newington.nsw.edu.au\/academic-guides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newington.nsw.edu.au\/academic-guides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newington.nsw.edu.au\/academic-guides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3118"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.newington.nsw.edu.au\/academic-guides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3118\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3136,"href":"https:\/\/www.newington.nsw.edu.au\/academic-guides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3118\/revisions\/3136"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newington.nsw.edu.au\/academic-guides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3102"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newington.nsw.edu.au\/academic-guides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3117"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newington.nsw.edu.au\/academic-guides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}