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• VCELA085

  Know that symbols, words and images can communicate needs

  Elaborations

  • making choices through alternative and augmentative communication, sign, symbol and image selection
  • using language to make requests, greet people, convey basic information about themselves and others
  • using image and sentence strip to communicate a need for example I want… to assist in requesting an object
  • using symbols to label an image

  VCELA085 | Curriculum content | English | Level C | Writing | Language

• VCSIS026

  Supported to engage in simple scientific inquiry

  Elaborations

  • engaging in simple scientific inquiry to find answers to simple questions, for example, ‘What happens when I freeze water?’
  • participating in simple structured investigations to explore an object’s characteristics

  VCSIS026 | Science | Level C | Science Inquiry Skills | Questioning and predicting

• Health and Physical Education: Level C description

  The Level C curriculum provides the basis for developing knowledge, understanding and skills for students to lead healthy, safe and active lives. Students learn about their personal characteristics, abilities and simple actions they can take to keep themselves healthy and safe. Students are introduced...

  Level description | Health and Physical Education

• VCELA073

  Recognise that a group of words can communicate a message

  Elaborations

  • learning to build on spoken sentence starters to communicate a need or want, for example ‘I want … a drink’
  • learning to combine words to convey a message, for example ‘Dad’s car’, ‘throw ball’

  VCELA073 | Curriculum content | English | Level C | Reading and Viewing | Language

• VCCCTQ073

  Explore how past experience influences thinking and reactions to situations

  Elaborations

  • using everyday problems and situations to explore personal reactions to situations and how this can affect their response
  • exploring how prior knowledge and past experience can be used to make predictions and understand the world around them
  • exploring how prior knowledge and past experience can be used to solve problems

  VCCCTQ073 | Capabilities | Critical and Creative Thinking | Level C | Questions and Possibilities

• Critical and Creative Thinking: Level C description

  In Level C, the curriculum focuses on developing the skills to reason, problem solve and learn. Students become familiar with simple strategies to structure thinking and solve problems. Students explore how thinking can be made explicit.

  Level description | Capabilities | Critical and Creative Thinking

• Media Arts: Level C description

  In Level C, students explore media arts. They explore and learn about how media artworks can represent elements of the world and that they can make media artworks to represent their ideas about the world. Students become aware of simple structure, character and settings as they explore ideas and...

  Level description | The Arts | Media Arts

• English: Level C achievement standards - Speaking and Listening

  Students listen to and interact with others. They use particular greetings to acknowledge people, respond with ‘yes’, ‘no’ or single words to indicate understanding and use a few words and simple phrases. They can share their favourite items or experience with a small group...

  Level description | English | Level C | Speaking and Listening

• English: Level C achievement standards - Writing

  When writing, students add writing such as scribble to label or comment on drawings, and imitate writing words and sentences. They express and record their wants and needs through a word, a picture or symbol selection. They demonstrate fine motor grasp and manipulating skills such as moving, picking...

  Level description | English | Level C | Writing

• Drama: Level C description

  In Level C, students explore drama. They learn about how drama can represent the world and that they can make drama to represent their ideas about the world. They share their drama with peers and experience drama as audiences.

  Students become aware of role and situation as they listen and respond...

  Level description | The Arts | Drama

• VCDSTS007

  Match familiar designed solutions to the personal needs they meet

  Elaborations

  • making a decision from a variety of options to meet a need, for example, matching kitchen utensils or garden tool to a specific use
  • selecting and using products for a specific need, for example, identifying ways to be shaded from the sun/be sunsafe
  • suggesting ideas about the use of a product and what need it meets, for example, what do you use scissors for?

  VCDSTS007 | Technologies | Design and Technologies | Level C | Technologies and Society

• VCELA096

  Recognise different ways to communicate needs, likes and dislikes

  Elaborations

  • expressing needs, wants and feelings through language and communication
  • making requests through the use of words, photographs, pictures or alternative and augmentative communication

  VCELA096 | Curriculum content | English | Level C | Speaking and Listening | Language

• Music: Level C description

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

  Students learn to listen to music and explore...

  Level description | The Arts | Music

• History: Level C description

  Personal and Recent Celebrations and 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...

  Level description | The Humanities | History

• VCDSCD009

  Examine and indicate how designed solutions are created and produced safely to meet needs

  Elaborations

  • describing opportunities for creating designed solutions, for example, ways to re-use materials
  • communicating why a material was selected or rejected, for example, it was too big and would not fit
  • sharing ideas, with teacher guidance, about a designed solution, for example, expressing likes and dislikes about a design idea
  • using images and objects to indicate tools and equipment, materials and key steps of a process, for example, growing a food product or designing a birthday card

  VCDSCD009 | Technologies | Design and Technologies | Level C | Creating Designed Solutions

• VCSSU025

  Objects can move in different ways

  Elaborations

  • developing a basic understanding of how things move, for example, push and pull, drop or throw, battery power
  • using words that describe simple forces, for example, ‘fast’, ‘slow’, ‘push’, ‘pull’

  VCSSU025 | Science | Level C | Science Understanding | Physical sciences

• Health and Physical Education: Level C achievement standards

  By the end of Level C, students recognise key stages of life, how they have grown and changed. They identify some obvious emotions and their cause. They experience and become more independent with actions that help them be healthy, safe and physically active.

  They identify some different settings...

  Level description | Health and Physical Education | Level C

• VCDTCD009

  Follow, and with assistance, represent a sequence of steps and decisions (algorithms) needed to solve simple problems

  Elaborations

  • re-sequencing a known everyday activity using visual images or verbal cues
  • experimenting with very simple, visual step-by-step procedures to explore using a device or completing a task, for example printing a picture or starting a game
  • identifying sequences of instructions or events that are commonly experienced such as the sequence of traffic lights or instructions for making a sandwich
  • following two to three-step series of instructions to use a piece of hardware or software, for example locating a website by keying in its URL or inserting an image in a file

  VCDTCD009 | Technologies | Digital Technologies | Level C | Creating Digital Solutions

• VCHPEP033

  Explore their feelings and practice expressing their needs, likes and dislikes using simple communication tools

  Elaborations

  • learning through supported experiences about what feelings look like, when they have felt this way and how to act
  • learning to recognise their emotional expression
  • learning to use words, signs or symbols to name emotions for self and others
  • developing a vocabulary of key concepts and using pictures and real objects to indicate their understanding of their likes and dislikes and feelings, and events associated with each feeling
  • learning about the needs and viewpoints of others through group experiences and shared decision-making
  • selecting a solution and identifying cause and effect of actions for familiar social problems

  VCHPEP033 | Health and Physical Education | Level C | Personal, Social and Community Health | Communicating and interacting for health and wellbeing

• VCSSU024

  Weather involves sun, rain, wind and clouds and can be hot, cold and warm

  Elaborations

  • responding to questions related to the weather, for example, ‘Do you think it will rain?’, ‘Do you feel hot?, ‘Is it snowing?’
  • identifying and sorting pictures and objects into 'hot' and 'cold' weather activities

  VCSSU024 | Science | Level C | Science Understanding | Earth and space sciences