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• Health and Physical Education: Level B description

  The Level B curriculum provides the basis for developing knowledge, understanding and skills for students to lead healthy, safe and active lives. Students learn about their ability and simple actions they can take to keep themselves healthy and safe. Students are supported to participate in activities...

  Level description | Health and Physical Education

• English: Level B achievement standards - Reading and Viewing

  By the end of Level B, students will listen to and view a range of spoken, written and multimodal texts from familiar contexts. They can focus on an image during the sharing of a text. They select a text using visual images and request a text to be read. Students can recognise images of familiar...

  Level description | English | Level B | Reading and Viewing

• Media Arts: Level B description

  In Level B, students explore media arts. They explore how media artworks can represent the world and that they can make media artworks to represent their ideas about the world.

  Students learn about safety in using technologies and in interaction with others. They experience the role of artist....

  Level description | The Arts | Media Arts

• VCHPEP019

  Express their feelings, needs, likes and dislikes

  Elaborations

  • learning to indicate their basic needs, including being hungry, tired, or needing the toilet
  • learning appropriate language and actions to communicate their feelings in different situations
  • matching basic feelings of 'happiness' and 'sadness' to an event or facial expression
  • learning and using strategies to persist until they are successful

  VCHPEP019 | Health and Physical Education | Level B | Personal, Social and Community Health | Communicating and interacting for health and wellbeing

• Music: Level B description

  In Level B, students explore music. They listen to and explore sound and how music can represent the world and that they can make music. They share their music with peers and experience music as part of an audiences.

  Students learn to listen to music and experience rhythm, pitch, dynamics and expression...

  Level description | The Arts | Music

• VCDSTS004

  Explore the use of familiar designed solutions to meet their needs

  Elaborations

  • visiting and using designed solutions, for example, parks, gardens, playgrounds
  • selecting an appropriate tool to meet a need, for example, a spoon to eat or stir a mixture
  • exploring and selecting a product based on personal need,for example, a toy to play with

  VCDSTS004 | Technologies | Design and Technologies | Level B | Technologies and Society

• VCSSU015

  Objects can be changed and manipulated

  Elaborations

  • exploring the effects that simple physical actions have on everyday objects, for example, pushing a toy car to make it move, letting go of an inflated balloon, dropping a ball
  • investigating how objects can change shape, for example, by squeezing, tearing, twisting, pulling, dropping

  VCSSU015 | Science | Level B | Science Understanding | Physical sciences

• History: Level B description

  Personal and Present Family 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...

  Level description | The Humanities | History

• VCELA038

  Know that an object has a name

  Elaborations

  • pointing towards or naming an object to communicate a choice
  • recognising that single words, signs or switches can communicate a need

  VCELA038 | Curriculum content | English | Level B | Reading and Viewing | Language

• Health and Physical Education: Level B achievement standards

  By the end of Level B, students recognise themselves in mirror and photographs and explore the personal characteristics and capabilities they possess. Students express their feelings, needs, likes and dislikes through gesture and ‘yes’ and ‘no’ responses. Students recognise...

  Level description | Health and Physical Education | Level B

• VCCCTM069

  Use thinking to identify and express basic needs and linking objects to a label and purpose

  Elaborations

  • clarifying and simplifying communication of basic needs and wants, for example consistent yes/ no response, ways of gaining attention
  • beginning to use some objects purposefully and identify significant objects when named
  • exploring and modifying use of objects based on past experience and investigation in structured situations

  VCCCTM069 | Capabilities | Critical and Creative Thinking | Level B | Meta-Cognition

• VCDTCD006

  Follow a sequence of steps and decisions needed to solve simple problems

  Elaborations

  • following a sequence strip to complete the steps in an everyday event, such as morning circle, unpacking their bag
  • using problem-solving skills to explore cause and effects programs or activities that have a clear action/consequence, such as dropping a ball, turning on a screen
  • following a simple single step instruction (step-by-step using verbal and visual prompts) to complete everyday routine activities
  • following a sequence of instructions or events presented as pictures or images for familiar routine activities and commonly experienced events

  VCDTCD006 | Technologies | Digital Technologies | Level B | Creating Digital Solutions

• VCSSU013

  Objects can be the same or different and can look and feel different

  Elaborations

  • mixing and playing with various materials, for example, using sand and water to build sandcastles, or pouring water onto a sandy footpath to make a water track
  • exploring and manipulating variety of materials in structured and unstructured activities

  VCSSU013 | Science | Level B | Science Understanding | Chemical sciences

• VCSSU014

  The weather and time of day can change

  Elaborations

  • identifying the characteristics of day and night, for example, morning, evening, sun, moon, stars, sunrise, sunset
  • answering with a ‘yes’ or ‘no’ response to questions related to changes in the weather, for example, ‘Is the weather today different from yesterday?’, ‘Do you think the weather will change after lunch?’

  VCSSU014 | Science | Level B | Science Understanding | Earth and space sciences

• VCSSU012

  Living things can look and feel different

  Elaborations

  • handling and observing living and non-living things
  • developing an emerging awareness of some essential characteristics of living things, for example, 'Eyes are for seeing’

  VCSSU012 | Science | Level B | Science Understanding | Biological sciences

• VCSSU011

  Objects and the world around us can be explored

  Elaborations

  • manipulating a variety of materials to explore their characteristics, for example, sensory tubs filled with pasta, feathers, water, pebbles
  • observing what happens when materials are mixed, manipulated, moved and changed

  VCSSU011 | Science | Level B | Science Understanding | Science as a human endeavour

• VCDSCD006

  Experience and explore how designed solutions are created and produced safely to meet personal needs

  Elaborations

  • communicating a design idea by selecting and indicating materials, for example, identifying what ingredients to put in a sandwich
  • collecting, giving and sharing materials when prompted
  • working with others by helping hold, wait, stick, join and put materials together

  VCDSCD006 | Technologies | Design and Technologies | Level B | Creating Designed Solutions

• VCHPEP018

  Practise basic skills of personal care and communicate basic needs, likes and dislikes and experience the social skills of turn taking and sharing

  Elaborations

  • practising basic personal care and hygiene skills including hand washing, face washing, nose blowing and toilet routines
  • learning to follow class rules and routines
  • practising expressing needs, wants and feelings, active listening and showing self-discipline to be an effective group member
  • practising social skills in structured sessions

  VCHPEP018 | Health and Physical Education | Level B | Personal, Social and Community Health | Communicating and interacting for health and wellbeing

• VCELA036

  Recognise that texts can have many forms, can use images, objects and symbols

  Elaborations

  • beginning to understand that multimodal texts may include symbols, images and objects
  • recognising some photographs, images and objects in a text

  VCELA036 | Curriculum content | English | Level B | Reading and Viewing | Language

• VCELA061

  Demonstrate a number of ways to indicate a choice

  Elaborations

  • selecting a preferred object, or requesting a drink through gestures, facial expressions, sounds and movements
  • learning that gestures can indicate needs or choices, for example reaches towards a familiar person/object

  VCELA061 | Curriculum content | English | Level B | Speaking and Listening | Language