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• 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

• VCCCTM061

  Experience the implementation of learning strategies and use of repetition in their learning experiences

  Elaborations

  • reacting to repetition in their everyday routines
  • encountering adults’ modelling strategies and reasoning – using a think aloud
  • learning how to communicate their needs to others in the same way

  VCCCTM061 | Capabilities | Critical and Creative Thinking | Level A | Meta-Cognition

• Digital Technologies: Level A achievement standards

  By the end of Level A, students recognise common digital systems that are used to meet specific everyday purposes.

  Students react to different types of data and how digital systems can be used to represent data as images.

  Students recognise that routine tasks involve completing a set of steps.

  Level description | Technologies | Digital Technologies | Level A

• English: Level A achievement standards - Reading and Viewing

  By the end of Level A, students react to a range of spoken, written and multimodal texts from familiar contexts. They respond to images of familiar people, objects or events. They fleetingly maintain eye contact with a person or object. They enjoy reading material as it is being read/experienced...

  Level description | English | Level A | Reading and Viewing

• 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

• VCCCTM060

  Experience the world and react using emotions

  Elaborations

  • reacting to the sensory feedback of elements within the world
  • reacting to internal sensations they experience within their own body
  • beginning to link internal symptoms being addressed through a specific want or need, for example drink, food

  VCCCTM060 | Capabilities | Critical and Creative Thinking | Level A | Meta-Cognition

• 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

• Health and Physical Education: Level A achievement standards

  By the end of Level A, students recognise themselves. They demonstrate different emotions people experience. They participate in actions that help them to be healthy, safe and physically active. They experience different settings where they can be active. Students show general awareness of body...

  Level description | Health and Physical Education | Level A

• VCHPEP005

  Use facial expressions to indicate an emotion and demonstrate preference

  Elaborations

  • show a reaction to multimodal texts that identify what emotions what they look like, and identify the actions that make them feel that way
  • using facial expressions, gestures, sounds to indicate an emotion, want or need
  • reacting to being comforted when distressed
  • relying on adults for support or comfort to cope with emotional events

  VCHPEP005 | Health and Physical Education | Level A | Personal, Social and Community Health | Communicating and interacting for health and wellbeing

• VCHPEP006

  Experience health and safety actions

  Elaborations

  • experiencing activities related to eating, drinking and life skills and exploring their sensory impact and indicating an awareness of these activities
  • experiencing a variety of activities related to healthy and active community and learning to anticipate some familiar events
  • participating in simple activities associated with their basic personal hygiene, needs and care, and beginning to assist in the process

  VCHPEP006 | Health and Physical Education | Level A | Personal, Social and Community Health | Contributing to healthy and active communities

• VCPSCSE052

  React to people and express emotions

  Elaborations

  • reacting positively or negatively to an element in their environment, for example person, object, activity or event
  • communicating basic needs through emotional displays such as crying, sounds, physical movement, facial expression
  • having emotional displays ‘labelled’ by an adult, for example you look sad/ happy/ upset

  VCPSCSE052 | Capabilities | Personal and Social Capability | Level A | Self-Awareness and Management | Recognition and expression of emotions

• VCELA025

  Respond to a familiar person and engage with them

  Elaborations

  • being exposed to individuals interpreting their actions and sounds
  • experiencing people reacting and engaging with each other and them
  • learning to control their behaviour, e.g. moving, making sounds,
  • making eye contact, sound or gesture towards a familiar other during a communicative process
  • gaining another’s attention through sounds and or action
  • communicating physical need, for example hungry or tired through sounds and/or action

  VCELA025 | Curriculum content | English | Level A | Speaking and Listening | Language

• VCHPEP003

  React to significant people

  Elaborations

  • indicating awareness of and reacting to familiar people
  • react to multimodal texts that identify significant people, their relationship and indicate which of these relationships make them feel loved, safe and supported
  • react to multimodal texts that identify protective behaviours that can help keep them safe and significant people in their community who can help them stay safe

  VCHPEP003 | Health and Physical Education | Level A | Personal, Social and Community Health | Being healthy, safe and active

• VCDTCD003

  Experience steps involved in completing a routine task

  Elaborations

  • watching the presentation of an event in a series of slides or screens accompanied by text and pictures
  • carrying out a simple step-by-step procedure such as cleaning teeth
  • showing how everyday tasks can be broken down through displays and visual schedules

  VCDTCD003 | Technologies | Digital Technologies | Level A | Creating Digital Solutions

• VCELA016

  React to different sounds, and words, and respond to visual text

  Elaborations

  • encountering various types of text, genre and modes and their structure and organisation
  • reacting to objects and events within the environment
  • exploring how sounds stop and start, and can be long or short
  • responding to familiar people and objects, for example acknowledgement by looking at, or reaching towards, a desired object

  VCELA016 | Curriculum content | English | Level A | Writing | Language

• VCELA003

  Experience sentences being used to express ideas and information and responds to different words, sounds and noise

  Elaborations

  • experiencing sentences being communicated in different modes to express ideas, e.g. words, keywords, visuals, or sign
  • turning attention towards the spoken word of a familiar other
  • exploring how noises stop and start and can be long or short
  • tracking images, actions and objects moving horizontally and vertically

  VCELA003 | Curriculum content | English | Level A | Reading and Viewing | 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

• VCAVAE001

  Experience creation of visual artworks

  Elaborations

  • experiencing the sound, smell and feel of various objects, react to the sensory stimulus and creating art work as a response to the experience
  • creating visual art works with support, for example their own hands are support as they use art materials such as paint and paper to create visual art works
  • exposed to sensory art experience and making basic choices by reaching for, touching, dropping materials, colours, objects
  • holding various objects, utensils for short periods of time, exploring the use of art equipment
  • exposed to colour, texture, materials used or which can be used

  VCAVAE001 | The Arts | Visual Arts | Level A | Explore and Express Ideas