In Levels 7 and 8, students research and investigate the practices and viewpoints of designers in the creation of visual communications and gain an understanding of how to visually communicate ideas to an audience. They experiment and develop their skills in creative, critical and reflective thinking...
Level description | The Arts | Visual Communication Design
In Levels 7 and 8, the curriculum focus is on explaining phenomena involving science and its applications. Students explain the role of classification in ordering and organising information about living and non-living things. They classify the diversity of life on Earth into major taxonomic groups...
Level description | Science
In Level 8, students consolidate their proficiency with the four arithmetic operations, and combinations of these, for general computation involving natural numbers, integers and rational numbers, with and without the use of technology. They represent these numbers on the real number line. They...
Level description | Mathematics
In Levels 7 and 8, students build on their understanding of structure, intent, character, settings, viewpoints and genre conventions in their media artworks.
Students extend use of media technologies and their understanding of story principles and media elements, such as the use of time, space,...
Level description | The Arts | Media Arts
In Levels 7 and 8, students analyse the properties of networked systems and their suitability and use for the transmission of data types. They acquire, analyse, validate and evaluate various types of data, and appreciate the complexities of storing and transmitting that data in digital systems.
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Level description | Technologies | Digital Technologies
The Level 7 and 8 curriculum expands students’ knowledge, understanding and skills to help them achieve successful outcomes in classroom, leisure, social, movement and online situations. Students learn how to take positive action to enhance their own and others’ health, safety and wellbeing. They...
Level description | Health and Physical Education
Students consolidate their understanding and use of regular forms and familiar grammatical structures. They expand their understanding through noticing variation and non-standard forms, for example, dialects used in the local community. They also notice exceptions to rules, for example, irregular...
Level description | Languages | Italian | F–10 Sequence
Students become familiar with the sounds and patterns of spoken Japanese, including pronunciation, rhythm and intonation. They identify words borrowed from English, observing differences in pronunciation and spelling. They use Japanese in classroom interactions and short communicative tasks. They...
Level description | Languages | Japanese | 7–10 Sequence
Students are able to produce all handshapes, movements and locations of single signs. They can independently produce simple positive and negative statements with some time marking, and use plain verbs, indicating verbs modified for present referents and simple and familiar depicting verbs. They...
Level description | Languages | Auslan | Second Language Learner | 7–10 Sequence
Students become familiar with the Italian pronunciation and sound system, noting similarities and differences with English. They build a vocabulary about people and objects in their immediate worlds. They learn how to use definite and indefinite articles. They learn how to form singular and plural...
Level description | Languages | Italian | 7–10 Sequence
Students become familiar with the sounds of Spanish, including pronunciation, rhythm, pitch and stress. They recognise similarities with many English words, noting differences in pronunciation and spelling. They understand and apply elements of Spanish grammar such as word order; simple verb forms...
Level description | Languages | Spanish | 7–10 Sequence
Students expand their range of vocabulary beyond their immediate world. They make clearer distinctions between sounds and intonation patterns. They develop more detailed grammatical knowledge, using additional tenses (le passé composé, le futur proche), some reflexive verb forms...
Level description | Languages | French | F–10 Sequence
Students use a range of grammatical forms and structures to convey more complex relationships between ideas and events, developing awareness of how language structures and features build up textural features. They use descriptive and expressive language including onomatopoeic and mimetic words...
Level description | Languages | Korean | F–10 Sequence
Students become familiar with the sounds of German, including pronunciation, rhythm, intonation and stress. They recognise similarities with many English words, noting differences in pronunciation (Computer, Buch, Auto). They approximate the pronunciation and phrasing of single words and short...
Level description | Languages | German | 7–10 Sequence
Students become familiar with the sounds of Korean and approximate pronunciation of Korean syllables in words and short phrases, noting meaningful sounds in Korean and their differences from English sounds. They are introduced to Hangeul, recognising its alphabetical nature and different shapes...
Level description | Languages | Korean | 7–10 Sequence
Students become familiar with the sounds of French, including pronunciation, rhythm, pitch and stress. They recognise similarities with many English words, noting differences in pronunciation (attention, menu). They approximate the pronunciation and phrasing of single words and short phrases,...
Level description | Languages | French | 7–10 Sequence
Students expand their range of vocabulary to subjects beyond their immediate world and familiar experiences. They develop broader grammatical knowledge, using verbs and い/な adjectives, negative conjugations, various particles, counters, superlatives and conjunctions, to describe and sequence events...
Level description | Languages | Japanese | F–10 Sequence
Students listen to, speak, read and write the language being studied in a widening range of interactions for a variety of purposes. They participate in role-plays, discussions, games, hands-on activities and competitions, and are supported to use the language being studied as much as possible....
Level description | Languages | Non-Roman Alphabet Languages | 7–10 Sequence
Students expand their range of vocabulary beyond their personal experience and interests, applying phonic and grammatical knowledge to spell and write unfamiliar words. They use a range of grammatical forms and language structures to convey more complex relationships between ideas and experiences...
Level description | Languages | Hindi | F–10 Sequence
Students develop explicit knowledge of the forms and functions of language elements that some may already use fluently in their spoken language. Literacy development provides the opportunity not only to read and write the language but also to understand how it is formed and how it works. Students...
Level description | Languages | Hindi | 7–10 Sequence
