By the end of Level 4, students recognise strategies for managing change. They examine influences that strengthen identities. They investigate how emotional responses vary and understand how to interact positively with others in different situations including in physical activities. Students interpret...
Level description | Health and Physical Education | Levels 3 and 4
By the end of Level 8, students prioritise the elements of a question and justify their selection. Students demonstrate flexibility in thinking by using a range of techniques in order to repurpose existing ideas or solutions to meet needs in new contexts.
Students explain different ways to settle...
Level description | Capabilities | Critical and Creative Thinking | Levels 7 and 8
By the end of Level 4, students explain how to construct open and closed questions and use them for different purposes. Students select and apply techniques to generate a range of ideas that extend how problems are solved.
Students describe and structure arguments with clearly identified aims,...
Level description | Capabilities | Critical and Creative Thinking | Levels 3 and 4
By the end of Level 6, students apply questioning as a tool to focus or expand thinking. They use appropriate techniques to copy, borrow and compare aspects of existing solutions in order to identify relationships and apply these to new situations.
Students distinguish between valid and sound...
Level description | Capabilities | Critical and Creative Thinking | Levels 5 and 6
By the end of Level 10, students explain the control and management of networked digital systems and the data security implications of the interaction between hardware, software and users.
Students explain simple data compression, and why content data are separated from presentation. They take...
Level description | Technologies | Digital Technologies | Levels 9 and 10
By the end of Level 8, students distinguish between different types of networks and their suitability in meeting defined purposes.
Students explain how text, image and sound data can be represented and secured in digital systems and presented using digital systems. They analyse and evaluate data...
Level description | Technologies | Digital Technologies | Levels 7 and 8
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
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 B2 students read familiar and unfamiliar texts containing predictable structures and familiar vocabulary. These texts may be print or digital, including visual, multimodal and interactive.
Students follow simple written instructions and questions. They identify the basic purposes...
Level description | English | English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Pathway A: Early immersion | EAL | Level B2 | Reading and Viewing
At Level CL, in familiar contexts, students write short, grammatically simple texts based on well-rehearsed spoken and well-practised written English. They write for a range of basic classroom and personal purposes, such as making lists and writing simple journal entries and notes, and complete...
Level description | English | English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Pathway A: Early immersion | EAL | Level CL | Writing
By the end of Level 10, students reflect critically on their emotional responses to challenging situations in a wide range of contexts. They demonstrate persistence, motivation, initiative and decision-making through completion of challenging tasks. They evaluate personal characteristics, strategies...
Level description | Capabilities | Personal and Social Capability | Levels 9 and 10
Students listen to and use appropriate interaction skills to respond to others in a familiar environment. They can identify rhyme, letter patterns and sounds in words. Students understand that their texts can reflect their own experiences. They identify and describe likes and dislikes about familiar...
Level description | English | Foundation Level | Speaking and Listening
By the end of Level 4, students understand that texts have different structures depending on the purpose and context. They explain how language features, images and vocabulary are used to engage the interest of audiences and can describe literal and implied meaning connecting ideas in different...
Level description | English | Level 4 | Reading and Viewing
By the end of Level 8, students understand how the selection of text structures is influenced by the selection of language mode and how this varies for different purposes and audiences. They explain how language features, images and vocabulary are used to represent different ideas and issues in...
Level description | English | Level 8 | Reading and Viewing
Students listen to discussions, clarifying content and challenging others’ ideas. They understand how language features and language patterns can be used for emphasis. They show how specific details can be used to support a point of view. They explain how their choices of language features and...
Level description | English | Level 6 | Speaking and Listening
By the end of Foundation, students sing and play instruments to communicate their experiences and ideas. They explore contrasting sounds and improvise with them. Students match pitch when singing. They understand and respond to the beat and simple rhythm patterns.
Students describe the music to...
Level description | The Arts | Music | Foundation Level
By the end of Level 2 students use imagination, their voices and instruments to improvise, compose, arrange and perform music. They explore and make decisions about ways of organising sounds to communicate ideas. They achieve intended effects and demonstrate accuracy when performing and composing.
Th...
Level description | The Arts | Music | Levels 1 and 2
By the end of Level D, students can name emotional responses and identify the cause of emotions. They can identify some characteristics of self. They use cues and prompts to solve simple problems.
Students can identify people associated with particular events and routines. They attend to and...
Level description | Capabilities | Personal and Social Capability | Level D
By the end of Level D, students can identify and label many familiar objects and indicate some of their properties by using gestures, words, images and objects. They can sort objects based on two properties and can identify key characteristics of familiar plants and animals. Students can identify...
Level description | Science | Level D
At Level B2 students communicate and learn English in predictable social and learning situations, understanding some de-contextualised English and expressing simple messages in basic English. They negotiate simple transactions and ask and answer basic questions on familiar topics, using familiar...
Level description | English | English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Pathway A: Early immersion | EAL | Level B2 | Speaking and Listening