Students are increasingly aware of differences between Auslan and English. They are expanding their knowledge of vocabulary and sentence construction. With support, they use constructed action to show participants in a text, modify indicating verbs for non-present referents with increasing accuracy...
Level description | Languages | Auslan | Second Language Learner | 7–10 Sequence
Critical and Creative Thinking is organised into three interrelated strands: Questions and Possibilities, Reasoning and Meta-Cognition.
| Strands | Questions and Possibilities | Reasoning | Meta-Cognition |
|---|---|---|---|
| Explore the nature of questioning and a range of processes and techniques to develop ideas | Explore... |
Overview material | Critical and Creative Thinking
By the end of Level 2, students use spoken Chinese to initiate interactions in a range of familiar contexts. They participate in simple exchanges to obtain and convey information and experiences relating to their personal world. They use learnt vocabulary, sounds, characters and culturally specific...
Level description | Languages | Chinese | Background Language Learner | F–10 Sequence | Foundation to Level 2
By the end of Level 10, students sustain extended interactions with diverse individuals and groups, selecting spoken and written language for precision and for effect on participants. Students collate and evaluate a range of spoken, written and multimodal sources to convey different perspectives...
Level description | Languages | Chinese | First Language Learner | 7–10 Sequence | Levels 9 and 10
Students use Chinese to write and speak with imagination to engage or persuade peers, justifying their perspectives by drawing on the ideas or experiences of others. They apply linguistic expressions encountered in contemporary and traditional literature to develop their own ability to write in...
Level description | Languages | Chinese | First Language Learner | 7–10 Sequence
Students discover the distinctive features of the spoken language and begin to use Pinyin and tone marks to practise syllables and tones they encounter in new words. They recognise that letters in Pinyin and English produce different sounds using different spelling conventions. Printed texts used...
Level description | Languages | Chinese | Second Language Learner | F–10 Sequence
In Levels 7 and 8, students make and respond to drama independently, and with their peers, teachers and communities.
Students build on their understanding of role, character and relationships. They use voice and movement to sustain character and situation. They use focus, tension, space and...
Level description | The Arts | Drama
In Levels 9 and 10, students develop more sophisticated approaches to making and responding to drama independently, in small groups, and with their teachers and communities. They continue to explore drama as an art form through improvisation, scripted drama, rehearsal and performance.
Students...
Level description | The Arts | Drama
The Level A2 curriculum supports students to expand their repertoire of spoken and written English. Students explore communication in predictable social situations. Students learn to identify key points in familiar topics and to develop their capacity to use images as cues to decode meaning.
St...
Level description | English | English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Pathway A: Early immersion | EAL
At Level B2 students write for a range of purposes on familiar topics. They write simple, organised texts demonstrating a developing use of specific vocabulary and simple sentence structures. Their writing demonstrates an understanding of the purposes of common text types, and their structures...
Level description | English | English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Pathway A: Early immersion | EAL | Level B2 | Writing
At Level C2 students read and comprehend a range of short, familiar fictional and factual texts and, when well supported, some unfamiliar texts. These texts may be print or digital texts, including handwritten, visual, multimodal and interactive texts.
Students show some comprehension beyond...
Level description | English | English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Pathway A: Early immersion | EAL | Level C2 | Reading and Viewing
At Level CL students read and complete simple, structured activities around a wide range of familiar, short, simple texts that use repetitive structures and features and are strongly supported by illustrations. These texts may be print or digital texts, including handwritten, visual, multimodal...
Level description | English | English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Pathway A: Early immersion | EAL | Level CL | Reading and Viewing
The curriculum for Level C1 supports students to develop their communication skills both verbally and non-verbally. It provides a range of opportunities for students to interact with their peers. Through active participation in conversations, students learn about the ways to apply formulaic language...
Level description | English | English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Pathway C: Late immersion | EAL
The Level CL 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. The curriculum covers the practising of pronunciation...
Level description | English | English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Pathway C: Late immersion | EAL
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
The Level B curriculum focuses on places I live in and developing students’ awareness of the places they experience daily. They are supported to develop their curiosity of place by exploring some of the significant features of the place and what they do in each. They are developing an emerging...
Level description | The Humanities | Geography
In Levels 5 and 6, the curriculum focuses on the concepts of place and interconnection. Students’ mental maps of the world are further developed through learning the locations of the major countries in the Asia region, Europe and North America. The scale of study goes global as students...
Level description | The Humanities | Geography
Students gain more control of grammatical and textual elements such as the case system, prepositions and tenses, using the present perfect (Perfekt) tense of verbs conjugated with haben and sein and the simple past (Imperfekt) tenses. They use German with increasing accuracy and fluency, drafting...
Level description | Languages | German | F–10 Sequence
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
Personal and Community Histories
In Foundation to Level 2, students study personal, family and local history. Students learn about their own history and that of their family, including stories from different cultures and other parts of the world. As participants in their own history, students develop...
Level description | The Humanities | History
