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• Personal and Social Capability: Level D achievement standards

  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

• VCPSCSE053

  Identify significant objects and people and make a choice between alternatives to show what they like

  Elaborations

  • reacting to the sound of their name
  • accepting and rejecting objects or activities by an emotional response
  • focusing on familiar people and objects

  VCPSCSE053 | Capabilities | Personal and Social Capability | Level A | Self-Awareness and Management | Development of resilience

• VCPSCSO055

  Identify significant people by gesturing, vocalising or orienting towards them

  Elaborations

  • focusing on familiar people
  • accepting assistance from a familiar person
  • beginning to attend to and respond to people

  VCPSCSO055 | Capabilities | Personal and Social Capability | Level A | Social Awareness and Management | Relationships and diversity

• VCECU020

  Explore a range of ethical problems and examine the extent to which different positions are related to commonly held ethical concepts and principles, considering the influence of cultural norms, religion, world views and philosophical thought

  Elaborations

  • identifying and discriminating the ethical concepts and principles raised by people or groups in a globally significant debate such as responses to people movements, poverty or climate change
  • identifying and analysing why members of the same religious tradition may hold different views, for example, on capital punishment

  VCECU020 | Capabilities | Ethical Capability | Levels 9 and 10 | Understanding Concepts

• VCNRU065

  Examine the structure and linguistic choices of a range of personal, informative and imaginative texts, such as diary entries, news reports, cartoons and stories, and consider how these choices were influenced by audience and purpose

  Elaborations

  • describing the main features of familiar text types for example, cartoon, story/storyboard, news report, and identifying features such as sequencing
  • observing that texts are constructed for a variety of purposes, such as to request, instruct, invite or describe the features of a particular text, for example, an invitation to a party or a greeting card
  • identifying the structure and organisation of a range of text types, for example, comparing emails and letters, written notes, text messages and print and digital versions of a journal/diary entry
  • identifying and comparing features of language use in different text types, such as formality/informality, headings, and lexical and grammatical choices that distinguish textual purpose and audience

  VCNRU065 | Capabilities | Personal and Social Capability | Levels 7 and 8 | Understanding | Systems of language

• VCNRC076

  Translate and analyse a range of texts comparing interpretations and explaining differences in meaning

  Elaborations

  • exchanging translations of familiar texts with peers, through email or shared spaces such as ePals, and discussing different versions in order to develop a whole-class translation
  • translating, analysing and explaining expressions and idioms encountered in texts, finding ways to convey the meaning and cultural significance
  • translating stories for others, analysing how words can have different meanings when used in different ways in a sentence and explaining the differences to others
  • translating texts to identify and evaluate cultural elements and influences, for example, proverbs and sayings

  VCNRC076 | Capabilities | Personal and Social Capability | Levels 9 and 10 | Communicating | Translating

• Ethical Capability: Levels 5 and 6 description

  In Levels 5 and 6, the curriculum focuses on developing the knowledge, skills and understandings to evaluate the significance of ethical matters. Students explore the basis of a range of ethical principles and reflect on means and ends. Students consider decision-making approaches based on thinking...

  Level description | Capabilities | Ethical Capability

• Ethical Capability: Levels 7 and 8 description

  In Levels 7 and 8, the curriculum focuses on developing the knowledge, skills and understandings to explore the tensions related to ethical concepts and decision making. Students extend their exploration of the two major ways to approach ethical deliberation – thinking about consequences...

  Level description | Capabilities | Ethical Capability

• 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

• Personal and Social Capability: Foundation Level description

  In Foundation, this curriculum focuses on enabling students to interact and play constructively with others and to establish friendships with peers. Students develop a vocabulary to describe the emotions they experience when interacting with others. Students begin to develop an understanding that...

  Level description | Capabilities | Personal and Social Capability

• Personal and Social Capability: Level A achievement standards

  By the end of Level A students express emotions in relation to a current situation. They indicate a preference between two alternatives. They recognise and react to significant people. They accept assistance from a familiar adult when faced with a problem and undertake simple routine tasks coactively.

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

• Personal and Social Capability: Level B achievement standards

  By the end of Level B, students express a range of basic emotions that indicate their feelings. They explore personal characteristics and abilities. Students focus on a task demonstrating persistence.

  Students recognise familiar people and demonstrate ways to interact with others. They respond...

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

• Personal and Social Capability: Level B description

  In Level B, the curriculum focuses on students learning how to be socially responsive. Students are developing an awareness of the emotions in themselves and others. Students are developing a sense of self and exploring their personal characteristics and abilities. The curriculum provides opportunity...

  Level description | Capabilities | Personal and Social Capability

• VCNRC045

  Share experiences of learning and using the language being studied, and reflect on the effect of language learning on own identity

  Elaborations

  • preparing a class profile to exchange with students who speak the language being studied, showing language backgrounds and interests represented in the class, using captions and symbols such as flags and words from different languages
  • exploring the idea of stereotypes associated with languages and identities, and discussing how stereotypes affect attitudes and communication and can be inaccurate
  • exploring how their linguistic and cultural background, for example, languages spoken, key relationships and intercultural experiences, influence their sense of who they are
  • connecting various personal experiences of learning the language, and describing how learning the language has influenced own everyday behaviour and language use, for example, using the language outside the language classroom
  • considering whether learning and using the language impacts on their sense of identity either in or out of the classroom

  VCNRC045 | Capabilities | Critical and Creative Thinking | Levels 5 and 6 | Communicating | Reflecting

• VCCCTQ033

  Suspend judgements temporarily and consider how preconceptions may limit ideas and alternatives

  Elaborations

  • reflecting on whether any preconceptions such as safety or ‘price point’ can be used to test the quality of ideas
  • challenging the inclusion of a feature of an object taken for granted, such as a lid on toothpaste tubes, and how this expands ideas for product innovations
  • investigating an issue such as improvements to liveability of another place, and exploring how differences in places mean that preconceptions should be suspended
  • identifying their preconceptions about a particular text and considering the influence of these preconceptions on how they react to an adaptation of the text, for example to a film adaptation of a novel
  • exploring barriers and enablers for the greater inclusion of voices, for example in issues concerning lowering the voting age or setting gender quotas and how greater or less inclusion might affect the range of useful ideas

  VCCCTQ033 | Capabilities | Critical and Creative Thinking | Levels 7 and 8 | Questions and Possibilities

• Capabilities | Personal and Social Capability: Learning in Personal and Social Capability

  The Personal and Social capability focuses on the recognition and expression of emotions, the development of resilience, and the appreciation of diversity of gender, age, language, culture and religion. Students explore the importance of a range of social relationships, including within families...

  Overview material | Personal and Social Capability

• Personal and Social Capability: Level D description

  In Level D, the curriculum focuses on enabling students to learn how to be socially perceptive. Students learn to guide their behaviour across a range of familiar situations. They learn to adhere to class practice, offer assistance, share, initiate activities and regulate emotional expression.

  Stu...

  Level description | Capabilities | Personal and Social Capability

• 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

• Ethical Capability: Levels 3 and 4 achievement standards

  By the end of Level 4, students use concrete examples from a range of contexts to explain the contested meaning of concepts and significance of acts. They explain how to identify ethical considerations in problems.

  Students use examples to evaluate ethical actions in relation to their outcomes....

  Level description | Capabilities | Ethical Capability | Levels 3 and 4

• Ethical Capability: Levels 5 and 6 achievement standards

  By the end of Level 6, students evaluate the meaning of ethical concepts and analyse their value, identifying areas of contestability. They explain different ways to respond to ethical problems and identify issues related to these.

  Students identify different ethical issues associated with a particular...

  Level description | Capabilities | Ethical Capability | Levels 5 and 6