Saturday School of Community Languages (SSCL) offers Continuers and Extension Courses in the following courses to students wishing to study their family background language:

Arabic, Armenian, Chinese (Mandarin), Croatian, Czech, Dutch, Estonian, Modern Greek, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Khmer, Korean, Latvian, Lithuanian, Macedonian, Maltese, Polish, Serbian, Slovenian, Spanish, Turkish and Vietnamese.

Enrolments require formal application in advance by the Principal of the student's day school to the Ryde office of the Saturday School of Community Languages.  Students must verify that they have the particular community language in their family background and may need to present documented evidence of previous study.

Applications are made in October.  Classes commence on the first Saturday of Term 1, in the following year and usually last for between two or three hours.  The language studied at a Saturday School is an extra subject and is not included in the minimum 12 units required for the satisfactory completion of the Preliminary Course.  In Year 12, students are able to include the Saturday School language in their minimum 10 units required for the Higher School Certificate.

Students who wish to take up the study of their family language in Year 12 only, must provide documentation of previous study, eg a report from an overseas school.   There is no guarantee that a place will necessarily be available in a Year 12 class.

For further information:

www.schools.nsw.edu.au/schoolfind/types/communityschools.php