Students develop their ability to share ideas about language and culture systems and develop their skills in moving between languages and cultures. Learning and use focus on active exploration of the Chinese language system, which students draw upon to communicate their own ideas and engage with others.
Level description | Languages | Chinese | Second Language Learner | 7–10 Sequence
VCITU111 | Languages | Italian | 7–10 Sequence | Levels 7 and 8 | Understanding | Language variation and change
VCZHC233 | Languages | Chinese | First Language Learner | 7–10 Sequence | Levels 7 and 8 | Communicating | Translating
VCZHC168 | Languages | Chinese | Background Language Learner | F–10 Sequence | Levels 7 and 8 | Communicating | Translating
VCGGK108 | The Humanities | Geography | Levels 7 and 8 | Geographical Knowledge | Water in the world
Students read nonfiction texts that are often glossed in Pinyin or supported with vocabulary lists. Written language use includes learning to read extracts from both Chinese and English literature to compare features of individual works. They learn to analyse new characters encountered in texts...
Level description | Languages | Chinese | Background Language Learner | 7–10 Sequence
VCZHU203 | Languages | Chinese | Background Language Learner | 7–10 Sequence | Levels 7 and 8 | Understanding | Systems of language
Students continue to engage with Country/Place to explore the environment and learn about Country/Place with respected community members.
Students bring to their learning a range of language learning strategies. They are increasingly aware of the world beyond their own, and are engaging with the...
Level description | Languages | Victorian Aboriginal Languages
Students are able to produce all handshapes, movements and locations of single signs. They can independently produce simple positive and negative statements with some time marking, and use plain verbs, indicating verbs modified for present referents and simple and familiar depicting verbs. They...
Level description | Languages | Auslan | Second Language Learner | 7–10 Sequence
Students extend their knowledge of the grammatical system and its use through spoken and written communication. Students experiment with language, exploring how cultural meanings are expressed. They analyse how messages are conveyed across languages, and apply their skills in moving between Chinese...
Level description | Languages | Chinese | Second Language Learner | F–10 Sequence
In Levels 7 and 8, students make and respond to dance, independently, with their peers, teachers and communities. They explore dance forms and styles through choreography and performance and by exploring ideas and intentions, forms and elements.
Working within their own body capabilities, students...
Level description | The Arts | Dance
Students consolidate their understanding and use of regular forms and familiar grammatical structures. They expand their understanding through noticing variation and non-standard forms, for example, dialects used in the local community. They also notice exceptions to rules, for example, irregular...
Level description | Languages | Italian | F–10 Sequence
In Levels 7 and 8, the curriculum focuses on developing the knowledge, skills and understanding to analyse thinking and the selection and application of a range of techniques to support effective thinking. Students learn strategies to assist them synthesise their thinking. Students develop an...
Level description | Capabilities | Critical and Creative Thinking
In Levels 7 and 8, the curriculum focuses on emotional self-management and the ability to recognise the characteristics of respectful relationships in a range of contexts. Students learn about personal values and how they may differ. The curriculum provides opportunities for students to demonstrate...
Level description | Capabilities | Personal and Social Capability
Students are introduced to the written and spoken forms of Indonesian, noticing that it uses the same alphabet as English but with some differences in pronunciation. They become familiar with a base word system with prefixes. Students are introduced to word order and simple sentence construction...
Level description | Languages | Indonesian | 7–10 Sequence
Students are extending their grammatical knowledge, such as how language structures and features are used in texts. They are using more elaborate sentence structures, including conjoining clauses, and are increasingly making their texts cohesive by setting up and maintaining referents in signing space.
Level description | Languages | Auslan | Second Language Learner | F–10 Sequence
By the end of Level 8 students choreograph and perform dances to communicate ideas and intentions. They improvise movement and select and organise the elements of dance, choreographic devices and form to communicate choreographic intent. Students learn, rehearse and perform dances, demonstrating...
Level description | The Arts | Dance | Levels 7 and 8
VCELA369 | Curriculum content | English | Level 7 | Reading and Viewing | Language
VCELC164 | Languages | Modern Greek | F–10 Sequence | Levels 7 and 8 | Communicating | Reflecting
VCNRC062 | Capabilities | Personal and Social Capability | Levels 7 and 8 | Communicating | Reflecting