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• Geography: Level B description

  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

• 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

• 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

• Science: Level B description

  In Level B, students play and use structured activities to make observations and use their senses to investigate the behaviours and properties of everyday objects, materials and living things. They explore change in the world around them, including changes that impact on them, for example the...

  Level description | Science

• VCADAR008

  Respond to own and others’ dance

  Elaborations

  • experiencing, react and responding to dance which present different places and reason why people dance
  • experience dance in their lives and communities, for example, being part of school and community events
  • responding to dances they make and view, for example, what they like/ dislike, how the dance made them feel

  VCADAR008 | The Arts | Dance | Level B | Respond and Interpret

• VCAMUR008

  Respond to own and others’ music

  Elaborations

  • participating as an audience for a short time
  • making music or song choice for example indicating music or song they want/ like or activating a switch/button to start/stop music
  • listening to and responding to music
  • exploring music in their lives and communities, for example, for example experiencing music in various locations and purposes
  • describing subject or feeling of a pieces of music by selecting an images or objects from a field of two
  • listening to, participate in class conversations and communicating about music and musical instruments from different contexts and cultures

  VCAMUR008 | The Arts | Music | Level B | Respond and Interpret

• VCCCTQ064

  Use past experience to inform choice making and responses

  Elaborations

  • reacting to sensory input in the environment and using personal preference to make choices
  • beginning to match things that are the same and developing consistency in reactions and responses
  • becoming familiar with everyday routines and responding to basic familiar routines, environmental changes and people

  VCCCTQ064 | Capabilities | Critical and Creative Thinking | Level B | Questions and Possibilities

• VCELY046

  Attend to texts that have a variety of contexts

  Elaborations

  • comparing and identifying things that are the ‘same’ and ‘different’ within texts
  • exploring texts with the same theme to identify things that are the ‘same’ and ‘different’

  VCELY046 | Curriculum content | English | Level B | Reading and Viewing | Literacy

• VCHPEM025

  Explore the space around them and learn to move in relation to effort, space and objects

  Elaborations

  • exploring movement over various surfaces and environments
  • moving in different ways and in different directions in a designated area
  • following directions to keep personal space during physical activities
  • exploring body positions and developing coordination and flexibility when performing a range of different movements

  VCHPEM025 | Health and Physical Education | Level B | Movement and Physical Activity | Understanding movement

• VCHPEM023

  Engage in a variety of physical activities and explore basic play equipment

  Elaborations

  • using basic play equipment
  • developing balance whilst moving independently and beginning to negotiate steps and uneven surfaces
  • developing their fine motor grasp and manipulation skills as they reach for, grasp and hold objects
  • copying others to use equipment and play
  • following personal safety actions and game boundaries while participating in structured games
  • participating in games which involve responding to stimuli

  VCHPEM023 | Health and Physical Education | Level B | Movement and Physical Activity | Moving the body

• VCHPEM028

  Follow basic single word instructions when participating in structured physical activities

  Elaborations

  • waiting for and attending to teacher directions
  • wearing safety equipment during some physical activities
  • responding to single-word safety instructions from a familiar adult, including ‘stop’, ‘wait’, ‘come’
  • learning how to use equipment appropriately

  VCHPEM028 | Health and Physical Education | Level B | Movement and Physical Activity | Learning through movement

• VCHPEM026

  Cooperate with an adult to use equipment during physical activity

  Elaborations

  • demonstrating a readiness to explore and participate in new experiences
  • initiating a task when prompted by an adult
  • attempting to follow adult’s movements and use of equipment
  • working with an adult to complete a movement task or challenge

  VCHPEM026 | Health and Physical Education | Level B | Movement and Physical Activity | Learning through movement

• VCHPEM024

  Engage in regular physical activities and explore the development of their ability

  Elaborations

  • developing gross motor skills including reaching with either hand and crossing the midline
  • demonstrating a range of purposeful movements in aquatic environments
  • preforming familiar tasks with support in a limited range of locations
  • learning about how their body moves during and develops during participation in different physical activities

  VCHPEM024 | Health and Physical Education | Level B | Movement and Physical Activity | Understanding movement

• VCHPEM022

  Practise basic gross motor movements

  Elaborations

  • engaging in a variety of physical activities for short periods of time to increase balance, flexibility, coordination and endurance
  • intentionally perform some basic gross motor movement including moving across various surfaces
  • demonstrating a range of purposeful movements in aquatic environments

  VCHPEM022 | Health and Physical Education | Level B | Movement and Physical Activity | Moving the body

• VCHPEP015

  Identify what they like and dislike

  Elaborations

  • developing a sense of self, including recognising themselves in a mirror and photographs
  • developing personal preferences and attempting tasks related to their personal preferences
  • identifying from a small selection of foods things they like
  • identifying from images people that are significant to them

  VCHPEP015 | Health and Physical Education | Level B | Personal, Social and Community Health | Being healthy, safe and active

• VCHPEP016

  Identify some major body parts

  Elaborations

  • actively participate in songs, action games and games associated with the identification of major body parts
  • exploring topics related to their body parts relevant to their age and physical growth and development
  • identifying major body parts when communicated

  VCHPEP016 | Health and Physical Education | Level B | Personal, Social and Community Health | Being healthy, safe and active

• VCPSCSE059

  Respond to people or events and demonstrate a range of emotions

  Elaborations

  • beginning to notice peers and their significant emotional expression
  • indicating the immediate and present cause of emotions
  • exploring emotions, people’s physical characteristics, labels and visual representations

  VCPSCSE059 | Capabilities | Personal and Social Capability | Level B | Self-Awareness and Management | Recognition and expression of emotions

• VCSIS017

  Explore using their senses

  Elaborations

  • beginning to use their senses, with teacher guidance, to explore and describe the world around them by tasting, smelling, seeing, touching and hearing
  • interacting with living things and objects, with teacher guidance, for example, comparing the textures of different animal coats, listening to different bird calls, comparing shapes and sizes of different containers

  VCSIS017 | Science | Level B | Science Inquiry Skills | Planning and conducting

• VCSIS018

  Use ‘yes’ or ‘no’ response, pictures, photos and concrete objects to demonstrate their findings

  Elaborations

  • exploring the effects that simple physical actions have on everyday objects
  • exploring and investigating basic cause-and-effect software and activities, for example, hitting a switch, dropping an object, letting go of an object on an incline, feeding an animal

  VCSIS018 | Science | Level B | Science Inquiry Skills | Recording and processing

• 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