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• Drama: Level A description

  In Level A students are exposed to drama to assist them to attend to and explore the world around them with as much independence as possible. They experience how drama can represent the world and represent ideas about the world. They experience dance and are encouraged to use gestures and body...

  Level description | The Arts | Drama

• VCHHK006

  Who they are and what they look like

  Elaborations

  • experiencing their reflection and image through video and photos
  • exploring and reacting to their own reflection in a mirror, e.g. smiling, watching their movements, reaching towards it
  • exploring elements of self, such as hands, hair colour, hands, eyes etc.
  • identifying an image of self from other images

  VCHHK006 | The Humanities | History | Level A | Historical Knowledge | Personal histories

• VCELA018

  React to familiar voices and preferred sounds

  Elaborations

  • encountering various noises, sounds and voices
  • being exposed to words, sounds and noises of different pitch, duration and timbre
  • responding to the connection between everyday words and objects

  VCELA018 | Curriculum content | English | Level A | Writing | Language

• VCAMUE001

  Exposure to sound and silence and ways of using voice, movement and/or instruments

  Elaborations

  • explore the sound, smell and feel of various objects, such as the crunching of dry leaves or the sound and feel of guitar strings, body part moving, clapping, tapping
  • exposed to different ways of making sound and to create music such as coactively participate in songs and rhymes, safe use of musical instruments
  • exposed to music elements such as sound and silence, beat and tempo; loud, soft; high, low; long and short
  • supported to use different parts of the body to explore rhythm and sound
  • reacting to a range of musical sounds
  • reacting to patterns and musical pieces

  VCAMUE001 | The Arts | Music | Level A | Explore and Express Ideas

• VCAMUM002

  Experience the use of voice and/or instruments through chants, songs and rhymes

  Elaborations

  • exploring instruments by using an instrument coactively safely and appropriately, reacting to the touch of an instrument, or holding and using an instrument with assistance
  • exposed to various chants, song, rhymes and may coactively accompany with voice or instrument, reacting to or indicating a preference
  • provided with rich sensory experiences that give them opportunities to explore sights, sounds, textures, enjoy and appreciate music
  • experiencing and practicing techniques with support for playing classroom instruments
  • exposed to playing music to experience the expressive possibilities of their voices and instruments
  • exposed to music for various purposes and intentions, for example using music for relaxation, movement, to reflect different settings and feelings and creating environment to reflect the purpose

  VCAMUM002 | The Arts | Music | Level A | Music Practices

• VCELY034

  Respond to various types of communication

  Elaborations

  • changing behaviour as a consequence of their needs
  • encountering people who interact with them and interpret their behaviour for them
  • reacting to familiar people, voices and sounds
  • responding to interaction with others, for example, by smiling, turning head, making noises

  VCELY034 | Curriculum content | English | Level A | Speaking and Listening | Literacy

• Music: Level A achievement standards

  By the end of Level A, students improvise and perform music. They explore, as appropriate, the sound and feel of their voices and instruments.

  Students react to music they listen to, make and perform.

  Level description | The Arts | Music | Level A

• VCELA027

  Respond to vocabulary used in everyday experiences

  Elaborations

  • being exposed to vocabulary used by others to communicate for various purposes
  • being exposed to people labelling their behaviour and its purpose
  • building vocabulary in response to others’ labelling of their activities and actions during everyday experiences
  • reacting to familiar actions, sounds and voices, for example, a familiar adult’s voice, wave or smile

  VCELA027 | Curriculum content | English | Level A | Speaking and Listening | Language

• VCADRP003

  Be involved in sharing ideas through drama

  Elaborations

  • making and sharing drama when supported such as holding prop or costume or completing some actions coactively
  • experiencing voice and movement in their drama
  • exposed to rehearsing and performing a drama

  VCADRP003 | The Arts | Drama | Level A | Present and Perform

• VCELY013

  Experience and respond to different forms of communication and texts being read or viewed

  Elaborations

  • experiencing texts about everyday life and events
  • reacting to familiar items in texts viewed
  • reacting to familiar sounds and voices in familiar multimodal texts

  VCELY013 | Curriculum content | English | Level A | Reading and Viewing | Literacy

• VCMMG012

  Respond to personally relevant routine events

  Elaborations

  • experiencing events and their equipment, staff, and sensory elements
  • experiencing events and their characteristics being represented by images or augmentative and alternative communication (AAC)
  • reacting to routine events with the support of objects, sounds and textures
  • reacting and responding to daily events within the context of a range of practical situations, for example reacting to the bell for lunch time, responding to the timer, staff or an image for maths

  VCMMG012 | Mathematics | Level A | Measurement and Geometry | Using units of measurement

• VCELA028

  Respond to different sounds and words used in everyday experiences

  Elaborations

  • being exposed to people communicating and playing with words
  • being exposed to a variety of different rhymes, syllables and sounds
  • observing the connection between everyday words and objects
  • reacting to familiar voices and preferred sounds

  VCELA028 | Curriculum content | English | Level A | Speaking and Listening | Language

• VCELA005

  Respond to images and words in texts

  Elaborations

  • experiencing sound, image and text used in print and screen
  • reacting to images and objects within their environment
  • attending to a preferred image or sound such as a photo or voice of a familiar adult
  • fixating on objects and tracking objects within texts

  VCELA005 | Curriculum content | English | Level A | Reading and Viewing | Language

• VCADRE001

  Experience elements of dramatic play with support

  Elaborations

  • provided with rich sensory experiences that give them opportunities to explore sights, sounds, smells, textures of drama
  • wearing a costume or coactively hold a costume/prop
  • exploring loco-motor and/ or non-loco-motor movements with assistance
  • experiencing taking part in purposeful dramatic play
  • exposed to drama forms and elements; for example use of voices, various movements or different movements for different roles, reacting to voice and movement of self/others

  VCADRE001 | The Arts | Drama | Level A | Explore and Express Ideas

• VCADRD002

  Use facial expression to communicate a feeling or reaction

  Elaborations

  • provided with a variety of learning experiences that encourage them to explore different ways of using drama
  • communicating verbally by using the voice in relation to a situation
  • communicating non-verbally by using facial expression and movement to explore re react to a situation
  • experience movement within a space as performance space and audience space

  VCADRD002 | The Arts | Drama | Level A | Drama Practices

• VCADRR004

  React to drama

  Elaborations

  • experiencing and reacting to dramatisations
  • reacting to stimuli such as other peoples’ stories
  • experience drama for enjoyment and appreciation
  • viewing photos or videoing of their dramatisations
  • attending drama performances or taking part in drama in their community
  • reacting to the use of voices, movement and space in drama they make and experience

  VCADRR004 | The Arts | Drama | Level A | Respond and Interpret

• VCAMUP003

  Be involved in music performances

  Elaborations

  • experiencing the making, sharing and reacting to music
  • reacting when their music is presented
  • respond to stimuli such as other peoples’ music
  • assisting to choose sounds to be combined to create a composition
  • experiencing voices and sound sources being used to create a piece of music
  • experiencing the creation and improvising of music using technologies

  VCAMUP003 | The Arts | Music | Level A | Present and Perform

• VCDTDS001

  React to the use of some common digital systems, (hardware and software components), as they experience their purpose

  Elaborations

  • experiencing digital systems used within everyday life and school programs, for example phones, printers, cameras, multimedia presentations, tablets, games
  • using voice and body movements to make sounds in a microphone
  • experiencing cause and effect devices, for example touch keys on a banana keyboard
  • experiencing and playing with switches, for example a jelly bean switch
  • experiencing changes in a program due to the activation/deactivation of a switch by another, coactively or through individual exploration

  VCDTDS001 | Technologies | Digital Technologies | Level A | Digital Systems

• VCELA024

  Use sounds and facial expressions to affect familiar others

  Elaborations

  • encountering various languages and forms of communication at home, school and in the community
  • experiencing others engaging, communicating and changing things in the world around them
  • reacting to the sounds and voices of familiar others
  • reacting to a range of gestures, signs, images and facial features of familiar others
  • using sounds, noises, gestures, eye gaze etc. to gain attention or request an object, e.g. reaching towards something they want
  • turning towards a communication partner

  VCELA024 | Curriculum content | English | Level A | Speaking and Listening | Language

• VCDTDI002

  React to patterns and different types of data and experience how data is sorted and represented as images using digital systems

  Elaborations

  • experiencing how their movements can create sounds and visual effects
  • using numeric data and displaying them as images, for example selecting and displaying photos of classmates who are present at school on a given day
  • experiencing the use of visual data, for example searching through a school-based digital photo library to select an image of themselves and significant people in their life
  • experiencing different types of data processing by digital systems, for example images, sound, text and numbers

  VCDTDI002 | Technologies | Digital Technologies | Level A | Data and Information