The curriculum for Levels 1 and 2 builds on the learning from Foundation Level and supports students to make decisions to enhance their health, safety and participation in physical activity. The content enables students to explore their own sense of self and the factors that contribute to and...
Level description | Health and Physical Education
VCDSCD018 | Technologies | Design and Technologies | Foundation to Level 2 | Creating Designed Solutions | Investigating
VCHPEP073 | Health and Physical Education | Levels 1 and 2 | Personal, Social and Community Health | Being healthy, safe and active
In Foundation to Level 2 students explore and investigate technologies, including their purpose and how they meet personal and social needs within local settings. Students develop an understanding of how society and environmental sustainability factors influence design and technologies decisions...
Level description | Technologies | Design and Technologies
VCDTCD018 | Technologies | Digital Technologies | Foundation to Level 2 | Creating Digital Solutions
From Foundation to Level 2, the curriculum focuses on developing the knowledge, skills and understanding to express reasoning and to problem solve and learn more effectively. Students become familiar with key vocabulary and simple strategies to structure and improve thinking. Students develop...
Level description | Capabilities | Critical and Creative Thinking
From Foundation to Level 2, the curriculum focuses on developing the knowledge, skills and understandings to approach ethical problems and evaluate outcomes. Students develop a vocabulary to engage with ethical problems and an understanding that personal feelings can effect decision-making and actions.
Level description | Capabilities | Ethical Capability
VCSSU042 | Science | Foundation to Level 2 | Science Understanding | Biological sciences
VCGGK069 | The Humanities | Geography | Foundation to Level 2 | Geographical Knowledge | Places and our connections to them
Students recognise tones as an important element of Chinese speech and learn how the sounds of Chinese can be encoded in Pinyin, using Roman letters that often convey different sounds than those which students are accustomed to in English. They learn to recognise basic character forms that represent...
Level description | Languages | Chinese | Background Language Learner | F–10 Sequence
VCECD003 | Capabilities | Ethical Capability | Foundation to Level 2 | Decision Making and Actions
VCFRU017 | Languages | French | F–10 Sequence | Foundation to Level 2 | Understanding | Language variation and change
VCVIU121 | Languages | Vietnamese | F–10 Sequence | Foundation to Level 2 | Understanding | Language variation and change
In Levels 1 and 2, students continue their exploration and learning about how ideas and stories can be imagined and communicated through drama. They improvise and create roles, characters and situations and learn about focus and identifying the main idea of the drama. They share their drama with...
Level description | The Arts | Drama
By the end of Level 2, students describe examples of how people use science in their daily lives. They identify and describe examples of the external features and basic needs of living things. They describe how different places meet the needs of living things. They describe the properties, behaviour...
Level description | Science | Foundation to Level 2
VCDSTC017 | Technologies | Design and Technologies | Foundation to Level 2 | Technologies Contexts | Materials and technologies specialisations
VCADAR024 | The Arts | Dance | Levels 1 and 2 | Respond and Interpret
In Levels 1 and 2, the curriculum focuses on enabling students to learn about making and keeping friends and understanding the effects that their actions have on others. Students extend their vocabulary to describe the emotions they experience when interacting with others. Students develop an...
Level description | Capabilities | Personal and Social Capability
By the end of Level 2, students define place and identify and describe features of places and changes in these, at a local scale. They identify how people are connected to different places and explain the value of places to people. They describe different ways that places can be cared for.
They co...
Level description | The Humanities | Geography | Foundation to Level 2
VCFRU016 | Languages | French | F–10 Sequence | Foundation to Level 2 | Understanding | Language variation and change