The Level A curriculum develops student’s awareness of a place on a personal local scale. Places will range in size from a part of a room or garden to community place. They are supported to use...
The Level A curriculum develops student’s awareness of a place on a personal local scale. Places will range in size from a part of a room or garden to community place. They are supported to use their senses to explore the tangible characteristics of a place such as the sound, smell, feel of significant features, and environmental and human characteristics.
Learning about their own place and building a connection with it contributes to their sense of identify and awareness. They start to explore significant places they are in, and what it is like. Students experience different places and their purposes.
The idea of a place, its purpose, features and location (a part of the concept of space) are introduced through personal experience and reinforced through the use of multisensory and multimodal texts, images, maps, photos and models. The emphasis in Level A is on the significant place in which they live and their reaction to them.
Key question:
By the end of Level A, students recognise some personally significant places. They select preferred objects through reaching towards, accepting or rejecting actions.
Students react to the familiar features of some personally significant places.
