By the end of Foundation, students make and perform drama that communicates ideas and stories.
Students discuss characters and situations in drama they make, perform and view.
Level description | The Arts | Drama | Foundation Level
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
By the end Level B, students make and share drama through dramatic play and improvisation.
Students communicate likes and dislikes in response to elements of drama they make, perform and view.
Level description | The Arts | Drama | Level B
By the end of Level C, students make and share simple drama that communicates an idea, feeling and/or experience.
Students communicate ideas about drama and reasons why people share drama by answering yes/no questions.
Level description | The Arts | Drama | Level C
By the end of Level D, students make and share drama that communicates major elements of stories or experiences.
Students provide a simple explanation about the characteristics of drama they make, perform and view.
Level description | The Arts | Drama | Level D
By the end of Level 2, students make and present drama using the elements of role, situation and focus in dramatic play and improvisation.
Students describe what happens in drama they make, perform and view. They identify some elements in drama and describe where and why there is drama.
Level description | The Arts | Drama | Levels 1 and 2
By the end of Level 6, students use the elements of drama to shape character, voice and movement in improvisation, play-building and performances of devised and scripted drama for audiences.
Students explain how dramatic action and meaning is communicated in drama they make, perform and view. They...
Level description | The Arts | Drama | Levels 5 and 6
By the end of Level 8, students devise, interpret and perform drama. They manipulate the elements of drama, narrative and structure to control and communicate meaning. They apply different performance styles and conventions to convey status, relationships and intentions. They use performance skills...
Level description | The Arts | Drama | Levels 7 and 8
By the end of Level 4, students use relationships, tension, time and place and narrative structure when improvising and performing devised and scripted drama. They use performance skills to communicate ideas and create a sense of time and place in their drama.
Students describe and discuss similarities...
Level description | The Arts | Drama | Levels 3 and 4
By the end of Level 10, students develop and sustain different roles and characters to realise dramatic intentions and engage audiences. They perform devised and scripted drama in different forms, styles and performance spaces. They plan, direct, produce, rehearse and refine performances. They...
Level description | The Arts | Drama | Levels 9 and 10
By the end of Level 10, students describe how resources are allocated and distributed in the Australian economy and the way economic performance is measured. They provide explanations for variations in economic performance and standards of living within and between economies. Students explain...
Level description | The Humanities | Economics and Business | Levels 9 and 10
By the end of Level 8, students describe the interdependence of consumers and producers in the market and explain how markets operate to set prices and why governments may influence the market’s operation. They explain the rights and responsibilities of consumers and businesses when making...
Level description | The Humanities | Economics and Business | Levels 7 and 8
By the end of Level 6, students distinguish between needs and wants and recognise that choices need to be made when allocating resources. They recognise that consumer choices and financial decisions are influenced by a range of factors and describe the effects of these choices and decisions on...
Level description | The Humanities | Economics and Business | Levels 5 and 6
At Level A2 students read and respond to a wide range of familiar texts. These texts may be print or digital texts, including visual, multimodal or interactive texts.
Students predict, ask questions, retell and talk about texts read and viewed in class. With support, they read a range of...
Level description | English | English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Pathway A: Early immersion | EAL | Level A2 | Reading and Viewing
At Level A1 students read and engage with a wide range of short, simple, repetitive texts, including shared recounts and fictional and everyday texts. These texts may be in print or visual form.
Students read in context some familiar words, phrases, numbers and signs. They complete simple...
Level description | English | English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Pathway A: Early immersion | EAL | Level A1 | Reading and Viewing
At Level A2 students communicate in an expanding range of predictable social and learning situations. They express ideas and identify key points of information in classroom discussions about familiar topics, and in new topics when they are well supported by visual material, an appropriate pace...
Level description | English | English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Pathway A: Early immersion | EAL | Level A2 | Speaking and Listening
At Level A1 students communicate in basic English in routine, familiar, social and classroom situations. They follow and give simple instructions, exchange basic personal information, and negotiate well-known, predictable activities and contexts. They begin to modify their responses and manner...
Level description | English | English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Pathway A: Early immersion | EAL | Level A1 | Speaking and Listening
At Level A1 students communicate their ideas and experiences simply through drawings, copied writing, dictated texts and their own basic writing, showing evidence of a developing understanding of the writing process. They contribute to shared writing activities. They demonstrate an early awareness...
Level description | English | English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Pathway A: Early immersion | EAL | Level A1 | Writing
At Level A2 students communicate ideas, events and experiences through simple texts based on familiar spoken and written language. They write for a variety of personal and classroom purposes, using known and modelled structures and features. They write everyday texts and simple stories, recounts...
Level description | English | English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Pathway A: Early immersion | EAL | Level A2 | Writing
At Level B3 students read for a range of purposes and identify main ideas and specific information in classroom texts. These texts may be print or digital, including visual, multimodal and interactive.
Students demonstrate understanding of the main storyline and most key information when...
Level description | English | English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Pathway A: Early immersion | EAL | Level B3 | Reading and Viewing
