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• VCNRC043

  Create bilingual texts and learning resources for the school community

  Elaborations

  • creating simple bilingual texts in print or digital form for specific audiences, such as school signs for visitors, invitations to parents for class or school events, posters for the school community to advertise an upcoming event, online bilingual story books including text and images for a younger audience, or a bilingual game, such as Snap, using words only
  • creating and posting versions of existing school signs or notices into the language, for example, staffroom, canteen, recognising difference in word order
  • constructing and maintaining a bilingual website for a sister school or a contact group of young learners of English in a target language-speaking community
  • creating a word bank which includes words, phrases and common expressions, as a classroom resource to reinforce learning

  VCNRC043 | Capabilities | Critical and Creative Thinking | Levels 5 and 6 | Communicating | Translating

• VCICCD003

  Identify and discuss cultural diversity in the school and/or community

  Elaborations

  • recognising that others have different cultures and beliefs whilst also reflecting on student’s own cultural background, for example, by plotting the location of each student’s background on a world map
  • identifying and listing how many languages are spoken within the families of students within the classroom, and using the internet to learn some common terms, such as how to say ‘hello’, ‘goodbye’, ‘please’ and ‘thank you’ in each language identified
  • exploring cultural diversity by identifying visible elements, such as food and behaviour, and invisible elements, such as how people live and what they value, for example, households with three generations living together
  • using prompt questions to discuss cultural diversity within the classroom/school community, for example, were all students born in Australia? Were all Australians born here? If not, how did they become Australian?
  • discussing events acknowledged, celebrated and/or observed in the school and community, by whom and for what reasons, for example, Eid and Ramadan, Harmony Day or Easter

  VCICCD003 | Capabilities | Intercultural Capability | Foundation to Level 2 | Cultural Diversity

• VCPSCSE009

  Identify personal strengths and describe how these strengths are useful in school or family life

  Elaborations

  • describing a personal strength you have and how this can have a positive impact at home with your family
  • discussing personal strengths, such as listening carefully, and list possible ways this can be used in class activities and the effect it has on others
  • explaining the consequences of their strengths at school and in their family life
  • responding to the following prompt ‘It does not matter if I cannot run fast because I can ...’

  VCPSCSE009 | Capabilities | Personal and Social Capability | Levels 1 and 2 | Self-Awareness and Management | Development of resilience

• VCNRC035

  Initiate interactions and exchange information with peers, describing feelings and preferences, aspects of daily life, school, friends and hobbies

  Elaborations

  • asking and responding to questions to exchange information about shared interests, hobbies or friends
  • sharing experiences and feelings, such as weekend activities and likes/dislikes using set phrases
  • using communication strategies such as active listening skills, turn-taking cues and requests for clarification or more detail to support the exchange of information
  • comparing routines, interests and hobbies, using language associated with time, sequence and location

  VCNRC035 | Capabilities | Critical and Creative Thinking | Levels 5 and 6 | Communicating | Socialising

• VCNRC018

  Interact with peers and teacher to exchange personal information about everyday routines involving school and home environment

  Elaborations

  • asking and answering questions to exchange information about self and family
  • asking and sharing information about daily and classroom routines
  • using common responses for frequently asked comments or questions
  • exchanging simple correspondence such as notes, invitations or messages in print or digital form

  VCNRC018 | Capabilities | Personal and Social Capability | Levels 3 and 4 | Communicating | Socialising

• VCNRC022

  Convey information about self, others, home and school life, using simple statements and support materials such as photos, maps or charts

  Elaborations

  • creating print or digital texts to describe people, objects or their favourite pets/animals
  • creating a class profile from information collected from peers, for example, creating a chart or database to identify favourite sports, food or colours
  • presenting information on events or topics of possible interest to children of their own age in countries where the target language is spoken, using multimodal resources and authentic materials as support, such as menus, artefacts, brochures, maps
  • selecting information gained from print, visual and oral texts to design a digital display model or class book, for example, a class timetable or a map of their school

  VCNRC022 | Capabilities | Personal and Social Capability | Levels 3 and 4 | Communicating | Informing

• VCNRU049

  Understand the importance of register in a range of contexts and situations, such as at home, at school or in more formal situations

  Elaborations

  • using appropriate language according to age, gender, relationship and social status when meeting people for the first time or when introducing friends, teachers or other adults
  • reflecting on the use of colloquial or abbreviated language in technologically mediated contexts, for example by email or phone

  VCNRU049 | Capabilities | Personal and Social Capability | Levels 5 and 6 | Understanding | Language variation and change

• VCPSCSE026

  Reflect on how personal strengths have assisted in achieving success at home, at school or in the community

  Elaborations

  • identifying personal strengths in others, such as courage, sense of humour and determination and explaining how these could contribute to achieving success
  • describing what being successful at school looks and feels like and what personal strengths would assist
  • listing personal strengths that would make you successful at home, school and in the community and discussing the strengths that are common in all three settings

  VCPSCSE026 | Capabilities | Personal and Social Capability | Levels 5 and 6 | Self-Awareness and Management | Development of resilience

• VCNRC025

  Translate and interpret words, phrases and sentences used in familiar environments such as school and home, recognising how they may have similar or different meanings to words in English or other known languages

  Elaborations

  • playing matching games with word cards, for example, days of the week, months, seasons or vocabulary associated with weather
  • translating simple sentences, such as requests in the classroom, to understand the gist, noticing how meaning changes when translating into English
  • translating signs or phrases in familiar contexts into English, for example, street signs, addresses, food labels, noting that some signs and symbols are universal, for example, the ‘stop’ sign

  VCNRC025 | Capabilities | Personal and Social Capability | Levels 3 and 4 | Communicating | Translating

• Intercultural Capability: Levels 3 and 4 description

  In Levels 3 and 4, the curriculum focuses is on developing the knowledge, skills and understandings to enable students to learn about culture relevant to their social world of family, home, school, friends and neighbourhood. This includes cultural practices such as choice of food, clothing or...

  Level description | Capabilities | Intercultural Capability

• Capabilities | Personal and Social Capability: Structure

  The Personal and Social Capability curriculum is organised into two interrelated strands: Self-Awareness and Management and Social Awareness and Management.

  Each strand contains content descriptions that are organised in sub-strands.

  Strands	Self-Awareness and Management	Social Awareness...

  Overview material | Personal and Social Capability

• VCECD022

  Discuss issues raised by thinking about consequences and duties, in approaches to decision-making and action, and arguments for and against these approaches

  Elaborations

  • defining and comparing ethical terms such as deontology and consequentialism, identifying the main contestabilities and applying findings to discuss the costs and benefits of a proposal such as diverting money from a planned pedestrian crossing to a hospital, or from the foreign aid budget to domestic farmers, or from programs that respond to health problems to those that claim to prevent health problems
  • using hypothetical ethical dilemmas to compare consequential and duty-based approaches to decision-making and their contestabilities, for example the trolley problem, where a switch can be flipped to divert a runaway carriage that would crash into five railway workers, but would instead kill one person standing on the other line (from Philippa Foot), or whether to stay and look after a family member or go and fight evil forces (from Sartre), or a politician lying in an attempt to protect citizens from harm (from Machiavelli - the problem of Dirty Hands)
  • examining issues in fiction that show problems with consequence and duties-based approaches to decision-making, such as conflicts between rights or duties or potentially causing the suffering of the few for the sake of the majority, for example, in “The Hunger Games” or “Les Miserables”, for example, when Jean Valjean faces the decision of whether to save the person mistakenly identified as him

  VCECD022 | Capabilities | Ethical Capability | Levels 9 and 10 | Decision Making and Actions

• Capabilities | Intercultural Capability: Learning in Intercultural Capability

  The Intercultural capability curriculum focuses on learning about cultural understandings and practices. Students examine, reflect on and challenge assumptions, stereotypes and prejudices and explore how intercultural experiences can influence and change attitudes and beliefs.

  Students apply...

  Overview material | Intercultural Capability

• Intercultural Capability: Foundation to Level 2 achievement standards

  By the end of Level 2, students begin to distinguish what is familiar and different in the ways culturally diverse individuals and families live. They describe their experiences of intercultural encounters, and identify cultural diversity in their school and/or community.

  Students explain how they...

  Level description | Capabilities | Intercultural Capability | Foundation to Level 2

• Intercultural Capability: Foundation to Level 2 description

  From Foundation to Level 2, the curriculum focus is on developing the knowledge, skills and understandings to enable students to learn about cultures in their immediate world. For students at Foundation to level 2, learning typically focuses on their immediate family, home, school and friends....

  Level description | Capabilities | Intercultural Capability

• Personal and Social Capability: Foundation Level achievement standards

  By the end of Foundation Level, students identify and express a range of emotions in their interactions with others. They recognise personal qualities and achievements by describing activities they enjoy at school and home, noting their strengths. They recognise that attempting new and challenging...

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

• VCNRU029

  Identify, pronounce and write the alphabet letters, recognising sound–letter relationships in the language being studied

  Elaborations

  • identifying and pronouncing the sounds of the alphabet
  • practising letter clusters in common words or in names
  • beginning to recognise high-frequency words
  • applying appropriate punctuation marks such as full stop, comma, exclamation mark and question mark
  • using different strategies to remember new sounds, for example mnemonics

  VCNRU029 | Capabilities | Personal and Social Capability | Levels 3 and 4 | Understanding | Systems of language

• Personal and Social Capability: Levels 1 and 2 achievement standards

  By the end of Level 2, students show an awareness of the feelings and needs of others. They identify and describe personal interests, skills and achievements and reflect on how these might contribute to school or family life. They recognise the importance of persisting when faced with new and...

  Level description | Capabilities | Personal and Social Capability | Levels 1 and 2

• Personal and Social Capability: Levels 3 and 4 achievement standards

  By the end of Level 4, students explain the consequences of emotional responses in a range of social situations. They recognise personal strengths and challenges and identify skills they would like to develop. They suggest strategies for coping with difficult situations. They persist with tasks...

  Level description | Capabilities | Personal and Social Capability | Levels 3 and 4

• Capabilities | Personal and Social Capability: Rationale and Aims

  Rationale

  The Personal and Social Capability is essential in enabling students to understand themselves and others, and manage their relationships, lives, work and learning more effectively. The capability involves students learning to recognise and regulate emotions, develop empathy for others...

  Overview material | Personal and Social Capability