In Dance, students explore the elements of dance, skills, techniques and processes through the practices of choreography, performance and appreciation. The body is the instrument of expression and students use combinations of the elements of dance: space, time, dynamics and relationships, to communicate...
Overview material | Dance
The Ethical Capability curriculum explores what it means for both an individual and society to live well. Students examine what we ought to do, how we ought to live, what kind of society we should have and what kind of person one should be. These questions concern individuals alone and...
Overview material | Ethical Capability
The curriculum is structured around four strands each of which involves making and responding.
| Strand | Explore and Represent Ideas | Visual Communication Design Practices | Present and Perform | Respond and Interpret |
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| Exploring and experimenting with ideas and representations in Visual... |
Overview material | Visual Communication Design
History is organised by two strands: Historical Concepts and Skills and Historical Knowledge.
Historical Concepts and Skills are fundamental to the discipline of history and provide a structure for the development of historical understanding.
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| Chronology |
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Overview material | History
The Personal and Social Capability curriculum is organised into two interrelated strands: Self-Awareness and Management and Social Awareness and Management.
Each strand contains content descriptions that are organised in sub-strands.
| Strands | Self-Awareness and Management | Social Awareness... |
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Overview material | Personal and Social Capability
Italian belongs to the Romance family of languages and is closely connected to its ‘sibling’ languages of Spanish, Portuguese and French. It also has many commonalities and connections with English, sharing many Latin-derived words and using the same Roman...
Overview material | Italian
The curriculum is organised by the three strands of Number and Algebra, Measurement and Geometry, and Statistics and Probability.
Each strand is organised by sub-strands. Sub-strands group content descriptions under an appropriate concept, to provide both a focus and a clear sequence for the...
Overview material | Mathematics
The Dance curriculum is structured around four interdependent strands, each of which involves making and responding.
| Strand | Explore and Express Ideas | Dance Practices | Present and Perform | Respond and Interpret |
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Focuses on exploring and shaping ideas to express and communicate intentions. Students... |
Overview material | Dance
The curriculum is structured around four interdependent strands, each of which involves making and responding.
| Strand | Explore and Express Ideas | Drama Practices | Present and Perform | Respond and Interpret |
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Focuses on imagining and creating characters, roles and situations. Students... |
Overview material | Drama
The curriculum is structured around four strands, each of which involves making and responding.
| Strand | Explore and Express Ideas | Visual Arts Practices | Present and Perform | Respond and Interpret |
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| Exploring, imagining, experimenting and expressing ideas, concepts, themes, values, beliefs, observations... |
Overview material | Visual Arts
Critical and Creative Thinking is organised into three interrelated strands: Questions and Possibilities, Reasoning and Meta-Cognition.
| Strands | Questions and Possibilities | Reasoning | Meta-Cognition |
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| Explore the nature of questioning and a range of processes and techniques to develop ideas | Explore... |
Overview material | Critical and Creative Thinking
The curriculum consists of two strands: Understanding Concepts and Decision Making and Actions.
| Strands | Understanding Concepts | Decision Making and Actions |
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Students explore:
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Overview material | Ethical Capability
In Design and Technologies, students are actively engaged in the processes of creating designed solutions for personal, domestic and global settings for a sustainable future. For younger children, this usually involves personal and family settings, where there is an immediate, direct and tangible...
Overview material | Design and Technologies
Responding effectively to environmental, social and economic challenges requires young people to be creative, innovative, enterprising and adaptable, with the motivation, confidence and skills to use critical and creative thinking purposefully. Explicit attention to and application of...
Overview material | Critical and Creative Thinking
Intercultural interactions have become a part of everyday life in our increasingly multicultural and globalised world. Developing intercultural knowledge, skills and understandings is an essential part of living with others in the diverse world of the twenty-first century. The Intercultural...
Overview material | Intercultural Capability
The study of English is central to the learning and development of all young Australians. It helps create confident communicators, imaginative thinkers and informed citizens. It is through the study of English that individuals learn to analyse, understand, communicate and build relationships...
Overview material | English
Students acquire communication skills in Arabic. They develop understanding about the role of language and culture in communication. Their reflections on language use and language learning are applied in other learning contexts.
Learning languages broadens students’ horizons...
Overview material | Arabic
The formal study of Auslan contributes to the overall intellectual and social enrichment of both first language and second language learners by providing:
Overview material | Auslan
Students acquire communication skills in Chinese. They develop understanding about the role of language and culture in communication. Their reflections on language use and language learning are applied in other learning contexts.
Learning languages broadens students’ horizons about...
Overview material | Chinese
Students acquire communication skills in French. They develop understanding about the role of language and culture in communication. Their reflections on language use and language learning are applied in other learning contexts.
Learning languages broadens students’ horizons...
Overview material | French
