By the end of Level A, students react to significant changes in their environment. Students generate ideas by using their senses to explore the characteristics of everyday objects and make choices between objects.
Students begin to identify their personal preference and make choices about what...
Level description | Capabilities | Critical and Creative Thinking | Level A
In Level A, the curriculum focuses on exposing students to choice making, reasoning and problem solving. Students encounter vocabulary and simple strategies used to structure and improve thinking. Students are learning how to attend to, explore and experience the world around them.
Level description | Capabilities | Critical and Creative Thinking
By the end of Level A, students participate in dance activities. They move body parts safely and react to aspects of dance they make, perform and view.
Level description | The Arts | Dance | Level A
In Level A, students are exposed to dance. Dance assists them to attend to and explore the world around them with as much independence as possible. They experience dance and are encouraged to use gestures and body movements to react and respond to the world around them.
Students become aware of...
Level description | The Arts | Dance
By the end of Level A, students react to significant designed solutions that meet their needs.
With guidance, students experience designed solutions in at least one technologies context. They begin to communicate their needs and indicate a choice or preference through accept and reject actions.
Studen...
Level description | Technologies | Design and Technologies | Level A
In Level A, students are exposed to technologies, including its purpose and how technologies meet every day personal needs.
Students experience the characteristics and properties of some familiar designed solutions from one of the technologies contexts:
Level description | Technologies | Design and Technologies
By the end of Level A, students recognise common digital systems that are used to meet specific everyday purposes.
Students react to different types of data and how digital systems can be used to represent data as images.
Students recognise that routine tasks involve completing a set of steps.
Level description | Technologies | Digital Technologies | Level A
In Level A, student experiences are designed to move students from a pre-intentional level of responding to a level where the response indicates beginning intention. Students will have had opportunities to experience and react to a range of digital solutions through explorative learning and guided...
Level description | Technologies | Digital Technologies
By the end of Level A, students participate in dramatic play. They react to aspects of drama they make, perform and view.
Level description | The Arts | Drama | Level A
In Level A students are exposed to drama to assist them to attend to and explore the world around them with as much independence as possible. They experience how drama can represent the world and represent ideas about the world. They experience dance and are encouraged to use gestures and body...
Level description | The Arts | Drama
By the end of Level A, students react to a range of spoken, written and multimodal texts from familiar contexts. They respond to images of familiar people, objects or events. They fleetingly maintain eye contact with a person or object. They enjoy reading material as it is being read/experienced...
Level description | English | Level A | Reading and Viewing
Students listen to and react to some familiar objects, people, words and sounds within the environment by turning head, looking, reaching out and/or vocalising. They respond to their name and to familiar items when named. Students show an interest in others and an awareness of everyday social...
Level description | English | Level A | Speaking and Listening
When experiencing coactive writing activities, students make choices between objects and images and accept and reject objects and activities. Students develop their fine motor skills and hand-eye coordination and they move their hands in response to tactile stimuli. Students can demonstrate their...
Level description | English | Level A | Writing
In Level A, students begin to engage, participate and receive communication with known adults, teachers and peers. Opportunities are provided for students to explore English knowledge, understanding, skills and processes through everyday experiences, personal interests and significant events....
Level description | English
By the end of Level A, students recognise some personally significant places. They select preferred objects through reaching towards, accepting or rejecting actions.
Students react to the familiar features of some personally significant places.
Level description | The Humanities | Geography | Level A
The Level A curriculum develops student’s awareness of a place on a personal local scale. Places will range in size from a part of a room or garden to community place. They are supported to use their senses to explore the tangible characteristics of a place such as the sound, smell, feel of significant...
Level description | The Humanities | Geography
By the end of Level A, students recognise themselves. They demonstrate different emotions people experience. They participate in actions that help them to be healthy, safe and physically active. They experience different settings where they can be active. Students show general awareness of body...
Level description | Health and Physical Education | Level A
The Level A curriculum provides the basis for developing knowledge, understanding and skills for students to lead healthy, safe and active lives. Students learn about themselves and experience simple actions and activities to keep themselves healthy and safe.
Students develop their awareness of...
Level description | Health and Physical Education
By the end of Level A, students experience routine events within their daily life and react to significant chances. They react to personally significant people, objects and sites. They participate and react to significant events, which are commemorated.
Students react to stories, images and representations...
Level description | The Humanities | History | Level A
Personal Present History
The curriculum at Levels A to D provides a study of personal and family histories. Students learn about their own history and that of their family; this may include stories from different cultures and other parts of the world. As participants in their own history, students...
Level description | The Humanities | History