The Level 9 and 10 curriculum supports students to refine and apply strategies for maintaining a positive outlook and evaluating behavioural expectations in different leisure, social, movement and online situations. Students learn to apply health and physical activity information to devise and...
Level description | Health and Physical Education
Students apply the principles of pronunciation for the reading of Latin texts, for example, stressing the correct syllables, or acknowledging elision in poetry. They apply an extended knowledge of accidence and syntax, including subordinate clauses, finite and non-finite verb forms, pronoun forms...
Level description | Languages | Latin
The Level A1 curriculum supports students as they develop basic knowledge, understanding and skills in English. Through immersion in English, students build their capacity to participate in routine and familiar exchanges in English with their peers. As a result, they begin to recognise the ways...
Level description | English | English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Pathway A: Early immersion | EAL
In Level 3, students increasingly use mathematical terms and symbols to describe computations, measurements and characteristics of objects.
Students recognise, model and order numbers to at least 10 000 and place four digit numbers on a number line with regard for scale. They partition and re-arrange...
Level description | Mathematics
In Level 10, students extend their use of mathematical models to a wide range of familiar and unfamiliar contexts, involving the use of all types of real numbers. They recognise the role of logical argument and proof in establishing mathematical propositions. Students apply mental, written or...
Level description | Mathematics
In Levels 3 and 4, the curriculum focuses on developing the knowledge, skills and understanding to improve and monitor thinking. Students learn and consider the advantages of different thinking techniques. Students learn there are different ways to respond to problems, visualise thinking and think...
Level description | Capabilities | Critical and Creative Thinking
In Levels 9 and 10, the curriculum focuses on developing the knowledge, skills and understandings to analyse and evaluate ethical problems and their resolution and to identify and manage contestability in ethical matters. Students reflect on whether there are ethical concepts and principles common...
Level description | Capabilities | Ethical Capability
Students interact with peers and the teacher in a variety of communicative activities where grammar, vocabulary and pronunciation are purposefully integrated. They primarily engage in a variety of listening and viewing activities, and understand familiar stories, songs and poems. Language use...
Level description | Languages | Non-Roman Alphabet Languages | F–10 Sequence
In Foundation, this curriculum focuses on enabling students to interact and play constructively with others and to establish friendships with peers. Students develop a vocabulary to describe the emotions they experience when interacting with others. Students begin to develop an understanding that...
Level description | Capabilities | Personal and Social Capability
Students use oral language to build their capacity to describe and explore topics and concepts in Chinese. Students use Chinese to share everyday experiences with each other. They develop literacy skills through a range of reading and writing activities. Pinyin is used as a tool to develop students...
Level description | Languages | Chinese | Background Language Learner | F–10 Sequence
In Levels 7 and 8, students research and investigate the practices and viewpoints of designers in the creation of visual communications and gain an understanding of how to visually communicate ideas to an audience. They experiment and develop their skills in creative, critical and reflective thinking...
Level description | The Arts | Visual Communication Design
In Levels 3 and 4, students explore digital systems in terms of their components and peripheral devices such as digital microscopes, cameras and interactive whiteboards. They collect, manipulate and interpret data, developing an understanding of the characteristics of data and their representation.
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Level description | Technologies | Digital Technologies
The Level BL curriculum supports students as they develop basic knowledge, understanding and skills in English. Through immersion in English, students build their capacity to initiate and sustain simple conversations with their peers. The curriculum covers grammatical rules that students begin...
Level description | English | English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Pathway B: Mid immersion | EAL
From Foundation to Level 2, the curriculum focus is on developing the knowledge, skills and understandings to enable students to learn about cultures in their immediate world. For students at Foundation to level 2, learning typically focuses on their immediate family, home, school and friends....
Level description | Capabilities | Intercultural Capability
In Levels 9 and 10, the curriculum focus is on developing the knowledge, skills and understandings to engage in complex discussions about interrelationships within and between cultures. This includes the less tangible aspects of culture such as values, attitudes, roles, religious beliefs and ways...
Level description | Capabilities | Intercultural Capability
In Levels 3 and 4, the curriculum focuses on developing students’ understandings of positive relationships and connections. Students extend their emotional literacy via an enhanced vocabulary of understanding and describing emotions. They learn about the importance of valuing difference...
Level description | Capabilities | Personal and Social Capability
Students recognise tones as an important element of Chinese speech and learn how the sounds of Chinese can be encoded in Pinyin, using Roman letters that often convey different sounds than those which students are accustomed to in English. They learn to recognise basic character forms that represent...
Level description | Languages | Chinese | Background Language Learner | F–10 Sequence
In Levels 5 and 6, students are making and responding to dance independently and collaboratively with their peers, teachers and communities.
Students further develop their awareness of the body, their control and accuracy of body actions and their understanding of safe dance practice. They extend...
Level description | The Arts | Dance
In Levels 5 and 6, the curriculum focus is on developing the knowledge, skills and understandings to enable students to learn about diverse cultural practices and beliefs and how they compare with their own. This includes religious beliefs, traditional celebrations, family relationships, gender...
Level description | Capabilities | Intercultural Capability
Students develop their ability to share ideas about language and culture systems and develop their skills in moving between languages and cultures. Learning and use focus on active exploration of the Chinese language system, which students draw upon to communicate their own ideas and engage with others.
Level description | Languages | Chinese | Second Language Learner | 7–10 Sequence