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• VCELA026

  Explore how sound, facial expression and actions can cause a change

  Elaborations

  • being exposed to others interpreting their actions and labelling them as needs and feeling
  • exploring how they can change their behaviour
  • reacting to others through gestures, facial expressions, sounds and movements
  • changing their focus of engagement on seeing or feeling an object or person

  VCELA026 | Curriculum content | English | Level A | Speaking and Listening | Language

• 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

• Health and Physical Education: Level A description

  The Level A curriculum provides the basis for developing knowledge, understanding and skills for students to lead healthy, safe and active lives. Students learn about themselves and experience simple actions and activities to keep themselves healthy and safe.

  Students develop their awareness of...

  Level description | Health and Physical Education

• VCPSCSO057

  Develop ability to focus attention on others and acknowledge their presence

  Elaborations

  • attending to activities and people for short periods of time
  • learning to follow teacher direction
  • orientating their attention to an activity or person

  VCPSCSO057 | Capabilities | Personal and Social Capability | Level A | Social Awareness and Management | Collaboration

• VCSSU005

  Objects can be moved and touched

  Elaborations

  • demonstrating an awareness of force by watching or causing objects to bounce, swing, roll or slide
  • demonstrating an awareness of energy by responding to a variety of phenomena, for example, flashing lights, noisy toys, mechanical objects moving

  VCSSU005 | Science | Level A | Science Understanding | Physical sciences

• 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

• 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

• VCDSCD003

  React to a designed solution that has been created and produced safely to meet their needs

  Elaborations

  • communicating simple choices through accept or reject actions as they experience making, doing and drawing
  • learning to indicate what they like when prompted
  • experiencing the production of a designed solution, for example, tasting fruit salad
  • experiencing being part of a group design process

  VCDSCD003 | Technologies | Design and Technologies | Level A | Creating Designed Solutions

• VCDSTS001

  Experience how people create familiar designed solutions to meet their needs

  Elaborations

  • experiencing designed solutions such as harvesting products from the school garden
  • being exposed to people making design decisions based on personal needs. For example, the types of tools and equipment used in the school garden
  • experiencing the use and impact of technologies in their life such as types of outdoor play equipment

  VCDSTS001 | Technologies | Design and Technologies | Level A | Technologies and Society

• VCSSU004

  Changes in the world around us can affect responses

  Elaborations

  • making decisions about clothing, location and activity based on their reaction to, and changes in, the weather
  • demonstrating an awareness of the time of day by responding to activities associated with different times of the day, for example, eating lunch, getting dressed to go to school, packing bags to go home

  VCSSU004 | Science | Level A | Science Understanding | Earth and space sciences

• VCCCTM062

  Experience various problem solving approaches

  Elaborations

  • encountering their world through sensory experiences and sharing responses to solve a problem
  • beginning to develop preferences to people and objects through experiences
  • experiencing their wants and needs being interpreted and solved by an adult
  • experiencing a variety of strategies that can be used to assist them to solve a problem

  VCCCTM062 | Capabilities | Critical and Creative Thinking | Level A | Meta-Cognition

• Design and Technologies: Level A achievement standards

  By the end of Level A, students react to significant designed solutions that meet their needs.

  With guidance, students experience designed solutions in at least one technologies context. They begin to communicate their needs and indicate a choice or preference through accept and reject actions.

  Studen...

  Level description | Technologies | Design and Technologies | Level A

• Design and Technologies: Level A description

  In Level A, students are exposed to technologies, including its purpose and how technologies meet every day personal needs.

  Students experience the characteristics and properties of some familiar designed solutions from one of the technologies contexts:

  • Engineering principles and systems
  • Food and...

  Level description | Technologies | Design and Technologies

• Critical and Creative Thinking: Level A description

  In Level A, the curriculum focuses on exposing students to choice making, reasoning and problem solving. Students encounter vocabulary and simple strategies used to structure and improve thinking. Students are learning how to attend to, explore and experience the world around them.

  Level description | Capabilities | Critical and Creative Thinking

• 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

• 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

• English: Level A achievement standards - Writing

  When experiencing coactive writing activities, students make choices between objects and images and accept and reject objects and activities. Students develop their fine motor skills and hand-eye coordination and they move their hands in response to tactile stimuli. Students can demonstrate their...

  Level description | English | Level A | Writing

• History: Level A description

  Personal Present History

  The curriculum at Levels A to D provides a study of personal and family histories. Students learn about their own history and that of their family; this may include stories from different cultures and other parts of the world. As participants in their own history, students...

  Level description | The Humanities | History

• English: Level A achievement standards - Speaking and Listening

  Students listen to and react to some familiar objects, people, words and sounds within the environment by turning head, looking, reaching out and/or vocalising. They respond to their name and to familiar items when named. Students show an interest in others and an awareness of everyday social...

  Level description | English | Level A | Speaking and Listening