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• Mathematics: Level A achievement standards

  Number and Algebra

  Students observe the use of number within their daily life. They begin to respond to numbers in everyday experiences. Students demonstrate awareness of counting by responding to number rhymes, songs, stories and finger games. They experience and respond to ‘one for you,...

  Level description | Mathematics | Level A

• Mathematics: Level A description

  In Level A, students experience and respond to personally relevant and familiar situations and events that regularly and routinely involve activities and actions such as comparing, adding and removing, distributing, placing and moving.

  Level description | Mathematics

• Media Arts: Level A achievement standards

  By the end of Level A, students react to media artworks being made and viewed.

  Students assist to make and share media artworks representing their life and preferences.

  Level description | The Arts | Media Arts | Level A

• Media Arts: Level A description

  In Level A, students are exposed to media arts. They experience how media artworks can represent the world in which they live.

  Students become aware of character and settings as they explore sensory elements of media arts, explore ideas and assist in the construction of stories.

  Students experience...

  Level description | The Arts | Media Arts

• 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

• Music: Level A description

  In Level A, students are exposed to music to assist them to listen to and explore sound and attend to and explore the world around them with as much independence as possible. They listen to and explore sound and experience how they can make music. They experience music as part of an audience.

  Student...

  Level description | The Arts | Music

• 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 A description

  In Level A, the curriculum focuses on enabling students to react and engage with and to be socially receptive to others. Students show emotions when reacting to people and events they experience. Students begin to develop an understanding of themselves and their needs. The curriculum provides...

  Level description | Capabilities | Personal and Social Capability

• Science: Level A achievement standards

  By the end of Level A, students react to the properties and behaviour of familiar objects. They react to environmental changes and respond to their effects through a positive or negative response. Students initiate and communicate a response to, or acceptance or rejection of, familiar objects and events.

  Level description | Science | Level A

• Science: Level A description

  In Level A, students learn that their senses can help them understand the world around them and the objects within it. They experience a range of activities that will assist them to attend to and explore the world around them with as much independence as possible. They are exposed to and encouraged...

  Level description | Science

• VCADAD002

  Show general awareness of body position and own body when being moved by others during fundamental movement and dance sequences

  Elaborations

  • reacting to movements or actions during dance experiences
  • responding to a range of fundamental movements to music, for example, bending, stretching, twisting, turning (non-locomotor), crawling, moving up and down (locomotor)
  • practising fundamental movements with support to begin to develop technical skills of body control, posture, strength, balance and coordination

  VCADAD002 | The Arts | Dance | Level A | Dance Practices

• VCADAE001

  Experience dance, safe movement possibilities and move their body parts intentionally in response to stimulus

  Elaborations

  • coactively moving to music
  • experiencing sensory elements of dance and reacting to stimuli, for example the movement of a dancer, or clothing worn, or music
  • experiencing dance sequences which explore the elements of space, time, dynamics and relationships through movement, for example, levels, tempo and dynamics

  VCADAE001 | The Arts | Dance | Level A | Explore and Express Ideas

• VCADAP003

  Be involved in making and sharing dance that communicates ideas

  Elaborations

  • viewing own performance and reacting to elements
  • performing as part of a dance group, to classmates, teachers and parents
  • reacting to the audience, for example, change in expression when they hear or see known adults
  • experiencing the presenting of their dance in a digital format

  VCADAP003 | The Arts | Dance | Level A | Present and Perform

• VCADAR004

  React to dance

  Elaborations

  • experience dance in their lives and as part of the school and local community, for example, experiencing dance which communicates cultural knowledge
  • exposed to dance that show that people have different feelings, experiences and ways of dancing
  • reacting to specific element within a dance for example movements the dancers perform, what are they wearing, kind of music are they dancing to

  VCADAR004 | The Arts | Dance | Level A | Respond and Interpret

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• VCAMAE001

  Experience characters and settings through stories in images, sounds and multi-modal texts

  Elaborations

  • exposed to and coactively using technologies associated with media art
  • exposed to media art, images and sounds that represent their world
  • exposed to the use of technologies to capture images or sounds, for example use switch/button to activate media equipment,
  • coactively use various multimedia equipment, tap a switch to take an image, record a sound
  • assisting in composition by selecting images and/or sounds through reaction

  VCAMAE001 | The Arts | Media Arts | Level A | Explore and Represent Ideas

• VCAMAM002

  Experience media technologies to capture images and sounds for a story

  Elaborations

  • supported through a variety of learning experience that encourage them to explore different ways of using media artworks, for example taking samples of images, sounds they react to, integrating sounds and images of significant objects to represent their likes, reactions to the world around them
  • exposed to the use of a digital camera to capture still or moving images, for example, using switch, clapping to activate and deactivate a camera, assisting to capture, viewing and reacting to images created using the effects of a camera application such as photo booth
  • experiencing computer software being used to create a photo story about them

  VCAMAM002 | The Arts | Media Arts | Level A | Media Arts Practices