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• Critical and Creative Thinking: Level B achievement standards

  By the end of Level B, students use their senses and cause and effect to explore and understand the world around them. Students generate ideas based on their experiences and make choices in structured situations.

  Students begin to become aware of their own point of view through their emotions...

  Level description | Capabilities | Critical and Creative Thinking | Level B

• Critical and Creative Thinking: Level B description

  In Level B, the curriculum focuses on developing students understanding of the world around them, how to learn and solve everyday problems. Students become familiar with simple strategies to structure and understand the world and thinking. Students are exposed to thinking processes.

  Level description | Capabilities | Critical and Creative Thinking

• Personal and Social Capability: Level B achievement standards

  By the end of Level B, students express a range of basic emotions that indicate their feelings. They explore personal characteristics and abilities. Students focus on a task demonstrating persistence.

  Students recognise familiar people and demonstrate ways to interact with others. They respond...

  Level description | Capabilities | Personal and Social Capability | Level B

• Personal and Social Capability: Level B description

  In Level B, the curriculum focuses on students learning how to be socially responsive. Students are developing an awareness of the emotions in themselves and others. Students are developing a sense of self and exploring their personal characteristics and abilities. The curriculum provides opportunity...

  Level description | Capabilities | Personal and Social Capability

• VCCCTM071

  Encounter everyday problems and learn how to solve them

  Elaborations

  • exploring objects and their appropriate use in structured situations
  • learning how to solve everyday problems through a set routine or process
  • learning to communicate their needs and request help

  VCCCTM071 | Capabilities | Critical and Creative Thinking | Level B | Meta-Cognition

• VCCCTM069

  Use thinking to identify and express basic needs and linking objects to a label and purpose

  Elaborations

  • clarifying and simplifying communication of basic needs and wants, for example consistent yes/ no response, ways of gaining attention
  • beginning to use some objects purposefully and identify significant objects when named
  • exploring and modifying use of objects based on past experience and investigation in structured situations

  VCCCTM069 | Capabilities | Critical and Creative Thinking | Level B | Meta-Cognition

• VCCCTM070

  Experience the learning strategies of visualisation and repetition

  Elaborations

  • practising and developing skills through routine activities and repetition
  • using visual strategies to assist in their learning
  • using learning strategies in structured learning experiences so they can be used in new and/or different situations

  VCCCTM070 | Capabilities | Critical and Creative Thinking | Level B | Meta-Cognition

• VCCCTQ065

  Generate ideas and solutions about everyday objects and experience

  Elaborations

  • exploring objects, their characteristics and purpose through structured explorations
  • learning routine solutions and actions to everyday programs and activities
  • developing ideas about objects, their name, purpose and use

  VCCCTQ065 | Capabilities | Critical and Creative Thinking | Level B | Questions and Possibilities

• VCCCTQ064

  Use past experience to inform choice making and responses

  Elaborations

  • reacting to sensory input in the environment and using personal preference to make choices
  • beginning to match things that are the same and developing consistency in reactions and responses
  • becoming familiar with everyday routines and responding to basic familiar routines, environmental changes and people

  VCCCTQ064 | Capabilities | Critical and Creative Thinking | Level B | Questions and Possibilities

• VCCCTQ063

  Explore questions about the world around them

  Elaborations

  • experiencing the sensory characteristics of familiar objects and exploring what is the same and different
  • actively exploring objects and materials in a wide variety of familiar contexts and structured environments
  • exploring the answer to questions related to their feelings and preferences in structured experiences and situations
  • answering questions by making choices and experiencing the consequences

  VCCCTQ063 | Capabilities | Critical and Creative Thinking | Level B | Questions and Possibilities

• VCCCTR068

  Make connections about objects and their purpose and application

  Elaborations

  • using trial and error to play with or make something work
  • making choices from past experience
  • matching objects with their purpose and application

  VCCCTR068 | Capabilities | Critical and Creative Thinking | Level B | Reasoning

• VCCCTR066

  Experience reasoning and conclusions

  Elaborations

  • participating in routine experiences and experiencing teachers explaining reasons for courses of action
  • participating in structured activities which result in a conclusion being established
  • exploring objects and developing an understanding, idea and/or concept

  VCCCTR066 | Capabilities | Critical and Creative Thinking | Level B | Reasoning

• VCCCTR067

  Experience information and ideas by participating in routine experiences

  Elaborations

  • exploring the world around them by attempting different courses of actions
  • experiencing step by step activities and experiencing teachers explaining course of action
  • evaluating procedures and outcomes by experiencing the effect of their actions throughout daily activities
  • sharing ideas about what keeps you safe during routine experiences

  VCCCTR067 | Capabilities | Critical and Creative Thinking | Level B | Reasoning

• VCPSCSE061

  Follow teacher direction and orientate their attention to an activity or person and persist in a task when supported by teacher

  Elaborations

  • demonstrating a readiness to explore and participate in new experiences
  • initiating a task once prompted by a teacher and following prompts to persist
  • exploring and using a variety of different resources and tools in structured learning activities

  VCPSCSE061 | Capabilities | Personal and Social Capability | Level B | Self-Awareness and Management | Development of resilience

• VCPSCSE059

  Respond to people or events and demonstrate a range of emotions

  Elaborations

  • beginning to notice peers and their significant emotional expression
  • indicating the immediate and present cause of emotions
  • exploring emotions, people’s physical characteristics, labels and visual representations

  VCPSCSE059 | Capabilities | Personal and Social Capability | Level B | Self-Awareness and Management | Recognition and expression of emotions

• VCPSCSE060

  Indicate the personal characteristics and the abilities they possess

  Elaborations

  • starting to recognise themselves in a mirror and photographs
  • exploring the personal characteristics and capabilities they possess through structured learning activities
  • reflecting on their own learning and personal characteristics by answering ‘yes’ and ‘no’ questions

  VCPSCSE060 | Capabilities | Personal and Social Capability | Level B | Self-Awareness and Management | Development of resilience

• VCPSCSO065

  Demonstrate awareness of basic social rules by responding to assistance provided by an adult

  Elaborations

  • accepting adult support to manage emotional expression
  • following adult prompts on what to do and expected behaviour in classroom situations
  • accepting help during an interaction

  VCPSCSO065 | Capabilities | Personal and Social Capability | Level B | Social Awareness and Management | Collaboration

• VCPSCSO062

  Identify members of their family and some members of their class

  Elaborations

  • responding to and cooperating with familiar adults
  • developing an awareness of others
  • selecting a family member in a photograph

  VCPSCSO062 | Capabilities | Personal and Social Capability | Level B | Social Awareness and Management | Relationships and diversity

• VCPSCSO063

  Participate in routine activities and interact with others in a range of familiar contexts instigated by the teacher

  Elaborations

  • undertaking everyday routines under supervision
  • demonstrating simple social skills such as attending to others and turn taking during structured activities
  • following adult prompts to regulate their emotional expressions and control impulses

  VCPSCSO063 | Capabilities | Personal and Social Capability | Level B | Social Awareness and Management | Relationships and diversity

• VCPSCSO064

  Demonstrate some simple social skills including attending to others, greeting, and following adult directions

  Elaborations

  • participating as part of a school group under teacher direction
  • interacting with peers in a structured activity
  • following basic social rules to support playing alongside others

  VCPSCSO064 | Capabilities | Personal and Social Capability | Level B | Social Awareness and Management | Collaboration