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• Critical and Creative Thinking: Level D description

  In Level D, the curriculum focuses on developing the knowledge and skills to express reasons, to problem solve and learn more effectively. Students become familiar with simple strategies to structure and improve thinking. Students learn how thinking can be made explicit.

  Level description | Capabilities | Critical and Creative Thinking

• Critical and Creative Thinking: Level D achievement standards

  By the end of Level D, students answer simple questions related to their own investigation, their feelings or concept. They identify and describe an event or scientific experiment. They generate ideas based on past experience and make choices based on their personal preferences.

  Students can...

  Level description | Capabilities | Critical and Creative Thinking | Level D

• Drama: Level D description

  In Level D, 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

• History: Level D achievement standards

  By the end of Level D, students identify similarities and differences between families in their class. They identify many important family events and indicate how they were commemorated. Students use images to describe a significant family, personal event, site or person of significance.

  Students...

  Level description | The Humanities | History | Level D

• Media Arts: Level D description

  In Level D, students explore media arts. They learn how media artworks can represent the world and that they can make media artworks to represent their ideas about the world. Students become aware of character and settings as they explore ideas and construct stories. They learn about composition...

  Level description | The Arts | Media Arts

• Mathematics: Level D achievement standards

  Number and Algebra

  Students connect number names and numerals with sets of up to 10 elements. They match individual objects with counting sequences up to and back from 10. They recognise and point to numerals in and around the classroom, for example, numbers on a clock face. Students use concrete...

  Level description | Mathematics | Level D

• VCELA110

  Explore connection between words, objects and images in stories and informative texts

  Elaborations

  • learning that text can provide information about an image
  • understanding that words can be used to describe an image
  • learning that words and images can be used to tell a story about an event

  VCELA110 | Curriculum content | English | Level D | Reading and Viewing | Language

• Dance: Level D description

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

  Students become aware of their bodies and learn about the body bases, parts...

  Level description | The Arts | Dance

• English: Level D achievement standards - Writing

  When writing, students produce ‘text-like’ writing to convey meaning and label images. They trace letter-like patterns moving left to right across a page. They have a preferred writing hand and hold a pencil to trace over lines, shapes and patterns with some accuracy. They colour within a clearly...

  Level description | English | Level D | Writing

• History: Level D description

  Personal Past 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

• Visual Arts: Level D description

  In Level D, students explore visual arts. They learn about how to make visual representations of their ideas, experiences, observations and imagination.

  Students become aware of how and begin to explore why artists, craftspeople and designers present their ideas through different visual representations...

  Level description | The Arts | Visual Arts

• VCHHC044

  Develop a narrative about a significant family member and/or place

  Elaborations

  • assisting to construct texts that retell history including significant milestones events of a significant family member or place
  • using images and objects to give a simple retelling about a significant place, milestone or event
  • reacting to and recognising some changes to a place, person or self over time, such as a change in hair and physical features

  VCHHC044 | The Humanities | History | Level D | Historical Concepts and Skills | Historical significance

• English: Level D achievement standards - Reading and Viewing

  By the end of Level D, students listen to and view a range of spoken, written and multimodal texts from familiar contexts. They identify the main character and event in an imaginative text. They use visual images to identify the key topic or theme within an informative text. They understand familiar...

  Level description | English | Level D | Reading and Viewing

• VCELA130

  Know how to greet and maintain a short interaction with others

  Elaborations

  • intentionally conveying information during a communication exchange
  • changing volume based on the context, for example inside and outside
  • learning to recognise the space required when communicating with another person

  VCELA130 | Curriculum content | English | Level D | Speaking and Listening | Language

• VCADAD014

  Improvise and sequence dance movements to communicate moods and feelings

  Elaborations

  • dancers changing tempo and rhythm as the music changes
  • exploring and practising a range of movement types, for example light and heavy movements
  • practising to a range of fundamental movements to music, for example, walking, running, marching, galloping, skipping, crawling (locomotor), bending, stretching, twisting, turning (non-locomotor)
  • practising to begin to develop technical skills of body control, balance and coordination and responding to teacher’s feedback

  VCADAD014 | The Arts | Dance | Level D | Dance Practices

• VCCCTM088

  Explore learning strategies required to address everyday problems and situations

  Elaborations

  • learning what learning strategies to use in a range of common situations
  • learning a variety of strategies they can use to solve common problems
  • practising and using learning strategies, for example thinking aloud, planning, brainstorming

  VCCCTM088 | Capabilities | Critical and Creative Thinking | Level D | Meta-Cognition

• VCELA107

  Identify some of the features of text such as digital/screen layout or the features of a book cover

  Elaborations

  • learning that an idea can be represented in different ways, for example a word, a picture, an image
  • identifying the topic of a book from the image on the cover
  • using an icon image to select a digital text

  VCELA107 | Curriculum content | English | Level D | Reading and Viewing | Language

• VCELA106

  Investigate different forms of texts and the relationship between symbols, images and objects

  Elaborations

  • making meaning from familiar environmental texts, for example a stop or exit sign
  • recognising that texts can be used to outline a series of actions or schedule, for example, a routine, sequence, daily timetable

  VCELA106 | Curriculum content | English | Level D | Reading and Viewing | Language

• VCELA131

  Use different ways to express needs, likes and dislikes

  Elaborations

  • using communication systems to express preferences and make requests and comments
  • recognising that symbols and signs can be used in conjunction with spoken language to communicate ideas
  • using words, signs or images to express needs and feelings

  VCELA131 | Curriculum content | English | Level D | Speaking and Listening | Language

• Health and Physical Education: Level D description

  The Level D curriculum provides the basis for developing knowledge, understanding and skills for students to lead healthy, safe and active lives. Students learn about their strengths and simple actions they can take to keep themselves and their classmates healthy and safe. They learn about major...

  Level description | Health and Physical Education