By the end of Level B, students use their senses and cause and effect to explore and understand the world around them. Students generate ideas based on their experiences and make choices in structured situations.
Students begin to become aware of their own point of view through their emotions...
Level description | Capabilities | Critical and Creative Thinking | Level B
In Level B, the curriculum focuses on developing students understanding of the world around them, how to learn and solve everyday problems. Students become familiar with simple strategies to structure and understand the world and thinking. Students are exposed to thinking processes.
Level description | Capabilities | Critical and Creative Thinking
In Level B, students explore dance. They explore 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 explore the body bases, parts and zones...
Level description | The Arts | Dance
In Level B students explore technologies, including its purpose and how technologies meet personal and social needs.
Students examine the characteristics and properties of some technologies from one of the technologies contexts:
Level description | Technologies | Design and Technologies
In Level B, students experience and respond to drama. They explore how drama can represent the world and make drama to represent elements of the world. They share their drama with peers and experience drama as audiences.
Students experience different roles and situations related to real life and...
Level description | The Arts | Drama
By the end of Level B, students will listen to and view a range of spoken, written and multimodal texts from familiar contexts. They can focus on an image during the sharing of a text. They select a text using visual images and request a text to be read. Students can recognise images of familiar...
Level description | English | Level B | Reading and Viewing
Students look towards and attend to significant people for short periods of time. They attend to and respond to key word instructions. They imitate familiar words, spoken and/or signed. They use gesture or ‘yes’ or ‘no’ responses to answer a question or respond to an instruction. They communicate...
Level description | English | Level B | Speaking and Listening
In Level B, students communicate with peers, teachers and known adults. Opportunities are provided for students to explore English knowledge, understanding, skills and processes through everyday experiences, personal interests and significant events. Students begin to understand that communication...
Level description | English
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
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
Personal and Present Family 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...
Level description | The Humanities | History
Number and Algebra
Students participate in everyday activities that involve numbers and counting, comparing groups of objects, and pattern activities. Students can rote count to three. Students identify ‘one’ and ‘lots’ of objects and show an understanding of ‘more...
Level description | Mathematics | Level B
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
VCADRP007 | The Arts | Drama | Level B | Present and Perform
VCADRR008 | The Arts | Drama | Level B | Respond and Interpret
VCAMAR008 | The Arts | Media Arts | Level B | Respond and Interpret
VCAMUE005 | The Arts | Music | Level B | Explore and Express Ideas
VCAMUM006 | The Arts | Music | Level B | Music Practices
VCAMUR008 | The Arts | Music | Level B | Respond and Interpret
VCAVAE005 | The Arts | Visual Arts | Level B | Explore and Express Ideas