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• Media Arts: Levels 5 and 6 achievement standards

  By the end of Level 6, students explain how viewpoints, ideas and stories are shaped and portrayed in media artworks they make, share and view.

  Students use materials and media technologies to make media artworks for specific audiences and purposes, using intent, structure, setting and characters...

  Level description | The Arts | Media Arts | Levels 5 and 6

• VC2M5SP01

  connect objects to their nets and build objects from their nets using spatial and geometric reasoning

  Elaborations

  • designing and constructing exact nets for packaging particular-shaped items or collections of interest, taking into consideration how the faces will be joined and how the package will be opened
  • visualising folding some possible nets for a range of prisms and pyramids, predicting which will work and which cannot work, and justifying their choices, based on the number, size and position of particular shapes in each diagram
  • sketching nets for a range of prisms and pyramids considering the number, shape and placement of the faces, and testing by cutting and folding
  • investigating objects designed and developed by Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander Peoples, such as those used in fish traps and instructive toys, identifying the shape and relative position of each face to determine the net of the object

  VC2M5SP01 | Mathematics | Mathematics Version 2.0 | Level 5 | Space

• Mathematics: Level 5 description

  In Level 5, students extend decimal fractions to thousandths, and explore the ideas of factors, multiples and divisibility.

  Students use estimation and rounding for all four operations, with and without the use of technology for calculation. They solve multiple digit problems involving addition...

  Level description | Mathematics

• VC2M5M04

  estimate, construct and measure angles in degrees, using appropriate tools, including a protractor, and relate these measures to angle names

  Elaborations

  • using a protractor to measure angles in degrees and classifying these angles using angle names; for example, an acute angle is less than 90°, an obtuse angle is more than 90° and less than 180°, a right angle is equal to 90° and a reflex angle is more than 180° and less than 360°
  • estimating the size of angles in the environment using a clinometer and describing the angles using angle names
  • using a ruler and protractor to construct triangles, given the angle measures and side lengths
  • using a protractor to measure angles when creating a pattern or string design within a circle
  • recognising the size of angles within shapes that do and do not tessellate, measuring the angles and using the sum of angles to explain why some shapes will tessellate and other shapes do not

  VC2M5M04 | Mathematics | Mathematics Version 2.0 | Level 5 | Measurement

• Drama: Levels 5 and 6 description

  In Levels 5 and 6, students continue to make, perform view devised and scripted drama, independently and collaboratively with their peers, teachers and communities.

  Students develop character through voice and movement and extend their understanding and use of situation, focus, tension, space and...

  Level description | The Arts | Drama

• Music: Levels 5 and 6 description

  In Levels 5 and 6, Music involves students continuing to listen to, improvise, compose, arrange and perform music, independently and collaboratively with their peers, teachers and communities.

  Students explore more complex aspects of rhythm, pitch, dynamics and expression, form and structure, timbre...

  Level description | The Arts | Music

• VCIDC041

  Compose and perform texts such as a skit, rap or video clip, based on a stimulus, concept or theme

  Elaborations

  • composing texts for own and others’ enjoyment and interest, for example, a description of an imaginary character, animal or event
  • creating texts to share with others, for example, a commercial for a new product, a short film or rap, or a poster for an imagined event
  • creating a poem, rap or song, experimenting with rhyme and rhythm, for example, writing a shape or acrostic poem, or a song about sport (Tim saya hebat!)
  • performing or presenting own texts, for example, a photo story, advertisement or rap

  VCIDC041 | Languages | Indonesian | F–10 Sequence | Levels 5 and 6 | Communicating | Creating

• VCKOC159

  Compose and perform a variety of creative texts based on a stimulus concept or theme, sharing them face-to-face and online to present to different audiences

  Elaborations

  • composing texts for own and others’ enjoyment and interest, for example, a description of an imaginary character, animal or event
  • creating texts to share with others face-to-face or online, for example, a commercial for a new product, a short film, video clip or rap, or a poster for an imagined event
  • creating and performing alternative versions of known songs or raps by creating lyrics with support of language model or scaffolding
  • creating a poem, rap or song, experimenting with rhyme and rhythm, for example, writing a shape poem, an acrostic poem or 삼행시

  VCKOC159 | Languages | Korean | F–10 Sequence | Levels 5 and 6 | Communicating | Creating

• VCRAC041

  Compose and perform texts such as a skit, rap or video clip, based on a stimulus, concept or theme

  Elaborations

  • composing texts for the students' own and others’ enjoyment and interest, for example, a description of an imaginary character, animal or event
  • creating texts to share with others, for example, a commercial for a new product, a short film or rap, or a poster for an imagined event
  • experimenting with rhyme and rhythm, for example, writing a shape or acrostic poem, or a song about sport
  • performing or presenting own texts

  VCRAC041 | Languages | Roman Alphabet Languages | F–10 Sequence | Levels 5 and 6 | Communicating | Creating

• Chinese - Background Language Learner - F–10 Sequence: Levels 5 and 6 achievement standards

  By the end of Level 6, students use spoken and written Chinese to maintain interactions with familiar and unfamiliar people across a growing range of situations (for example, 你星期几去汉语学校？,你说…对吗？); to convey information, opinions and experiences (for example, 我喜欢踢澳式足球，你呢？); and to access a...

  Level description | Languages | Chinese | Background Language Learner | F–10 Sequence | Levels 5 and 6

• French - F–10 Sequence: Levels 5 and 6 description

  Students increase their range of French vocabulary, pronunciation, grammar and textual knowledge. They are aware of the role of liaisons and accents and are familiar with frequent vowel–consonant combinations (-ille, -ette, -tion). They use present tense forms of regular -er, -ir and -re verbs...

  Level description | Languages | French | F–10 Sequence

• History: Levels 5 and 6 description

  From Colony to Nation

  In Levels 5 and 6, students study colonial Australia in the 1800s and the development of Australia as a nation, particularly after 1900. Students look at the founding of British colonies and the development of a colony. They learn about what life was like for different groups...

  Level description | The Humanities | History

• Korean - F–10 Sequence: Levels 5 and 6 description

  Students expand their knowledge of Korean vocabulary, grammar and honorific elements. They are aware of some patterns of sound changes at syllable boundaries such as 연음법칙, 비음화 and 구개음화 in familiar words and expressions. They express past tense and use some verb phrases in complex structures as...

  Level description | Languages | Korean | F–10 Sequence

• Mathematics: Level 5 achievement standards

  Number and Algebra

  Students solve simple problems involving the four operations using a range of strategies including digital technology. They estimate to check the reasonableness of answers and approximate answers by rounding. Students identify and describe factors and multiples. They explain...

  Level description | Mathematics | Level 5

• Mathematics Version 2.0: Level 5 achievement standards

  By the end of Level 5, students use place value to write and order decimals including decimals greater than one. They express natural numbers as products of factors and identify multiples and divisors. Students order and represent, add and subtract fractions with the same or related denominators...

  Level description | Mathematics | Mathematics Version 2.0 | Level 5

• Mathematics Version 2.0: Level 5 description

  In Level 5, learning in Mathematics builds on each student’s prior learning and experiences. Students engage in a range of approaches to the learning and doing of mathematics that develop their understanding of and fluency with concepts, procedures and processes by making connections...

  Level description | Mathematics | Mathematics Version 2.0

• VCADRR032

  Explain how the elements of drama and production elements communicate meaning by comparing drama from different social, cultural and historical contexts, including in the drama of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples

  Elaborations

  • reviewing their own drama, outlining how they used elements of drama and narrative structures and the consequences of collaborative processes
  • identifying and discussing different performance styles and the portrayal of different roles and relationships in the drama
  • talking and writing about drama from other places and times and how it may contribute to their own drama, and how cultural understandings shape meanings in drama
  • identify the features of drama from different times and places, for example, investigate ways that drama created by contemporary Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander drama practitioners and drama created by contemporary drama practitioners based in a school’s/region’s sister city in Asia, communicate stories

  VCADRR032 | The Arts | Drama | Levels 5 and 6 | Respond and Interpret

• VCAMUR032

  Explain how aspects of the elements of music are combined to communicate ideas, concepts and feelings by comparing music from different cultures, times and locations, including the music of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples

  Elaborations

  • reviewing one’s own music, outlining their use of performance techniques and discussing the purpose of using specific presentation and production elements
  • providing and responding to feedback to refine performances and compositions
  • talking and writing about music from other places and times and how cultural understandings shape responses to music; for example, listening to examples of contemporary music that uses Aboriginal instruments such as the didgeridoo or clap sticks and asking ‘how does this music draw on music traditions or styles from other times, cultures or locations?
  • identifying the features of music from other contexts, for example, investigate traditional and contemporary music from Asia, considering traditions, customs and conventions

  VCAMUR032 | The Arts | Music | Levels 5 and 6 | Respond and Interpret

• VCESC151

  Produce a variety of texts such as scripted performances, raps and digital stories using imaginary characters, places, ideas and events

  Elaborations

  • producing songs, raps, short scripted plays or video clips based on modelled examples of these genres to perform to younger children who are learning Spanish
  • creating individual or collaborative poetry, experimenting with rhyme and rhythm, for example, a shape or acrostic poem or jingle, riddle or rap
  • creating, performing and recording/filming own texts such as a commercial for a new product, a photo story, a cartoon, or a poster for an imagined event
  • representing key events in imagined scenarios, using formats such as digital storyboards, cartoon maker, talking books or memes, using different voices, captions or word bubbles to capture different moods or feelings

  VCESC151 | Languages | Spanish | F–10 Sequence | Levels 5 and 6 | Communicating | Creating

• VCHHK089

  The nature of convict or colonial presence, including the factors that influenced changing patterns of development, how the environment changed, and aspects of the daily life of the inhabitants, including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples

  Elaborations

  • investigating colonial life to discover what life was like at that time for different inhabitants, for example, a European family and an Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander Language group, a convict and a free settler, a sugar cane farmer and an indentured labourer, in terms of clothing, diet, leisure, paid and unpaid work, language, housing and children’s lives
  • mapping local, regional and state/territory rural and urban settlement patterns in the 1800s, and noting factors such as geographical features, climate, water resources, the discovery of gold, transport and access to port facilities that shaped these patterns
  • investigating the impact of settlement on the environment, for example, comparing the present and past landscape and the flora and fauna of the local community

  VCHHK089 | The Humanities | History | Levels 5 and 6 | Historical Knowledge | The Australian colonies