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• History: Level D description

  Personal Past 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, students...

  Level description | The Humanities | History

• VCCCTM089

  Investigate problems and begin to identify different prospects and possible solutions

  Elaborations

  • exploring trial and error sequences and learning how to try again
  • investigating different people’s roles and feelings in structured situations
  • beginning to identify how they think and that other people may think/ feel differently

  VCCCTM089 | Capabilities | Critical and Creative Thinking | Level D | Meta-Cognition

• VCELA121

  Copy own name and recognise some of the letters within it, and understand that pausing is presented as a full stop in written text

  Elaborations

  • learning that each letter has two symbols, a capital and lowercase symbol
  • recognising the capital letter of their name in other contexts
  • understanding what a full stop looks like
  • locating full stops in text

  VCELA121 | Curriculum content | English | Level D | Writing | Language

• VCELA130

  Know how to greet and maintain a short interaction with others

  Elaborations

  • intentionally conveying information during a communication exchange
  • changing volume based on the context, for example inside and outside
  • learning to recognise the space required when communicating with another person

  VCELA130 | Curriculum content | English | Level D | Speaking and Listening | Language

• VCELA107

  Identify some of the features of text such as digital/screen layout or the features of a book cover

  Elaborations

  • learning that an idea can be represented in different ways, for example a word, a picture, an image
  • identifying the topic of a book from the image on the cover
  • using an icon image to select a digital text

  VCELA107 | Curriculum content | English | Level D | Reading and Viewing | Language

• VCHPEM054

  Cooperate with others and demonstrate characteristics of a good sport when participating in physical activities

  Elaborations

  • participating in simple games with support and practising social skills
  • demonstrating an understanding of and following familiar game rules
  • demonstrating characteristics of a good sport
  • learning to negotiate with others when working or playing games in groups

  VCHPEM054 | Health and Physical Education | Level D | Movement and Physical Activity | Learning through movement

• Geography: Level D description

  The Level D curriculum focuses on the features of places where students live focusing on developing student’s awareness, understanding and purpose of a place. Students are encouraged to be curious about a place and explore its local area. They use their senses to explore the tangible characteristics...

  Level description | The Humanities | Geography

• VCHPEP048

  Explore what actions promote health, safety and wellbeing

  Elaborations

  • exploring and learning about healthy eating and showing an understanding of basic food-handling hygiene
  • identifying safety equipment used to minimise injury during physical activities
  • identifying personal hygiene routines that need to be carried out each day
  • learning the basic rules of respect for another person; sharing, offering assistance and cooperating and practising these skills
  • following safety symbols and procedures at school, home and in aquatic and road environments

  VCHPEP048 | Health and Physical Education | Level D | Personal, Social and Community Health | Contributing to healthy and active communities

• VCHHK052

  Explore technologies of the past and today and what people like and why

  Elaborations

  • exploring and matching past and present technologies which help in the same way
  • learning what technologies their parents and grandparents had to assist in their everyday life
  • investigating what technologies different people use, what technologies different people like the most and why

  VCHHK052 | The Humanities | History | Level D | Historical Knowledge | Community histories

• VCHPEP044

  Identify the major parts of the body by their names and sequence images of major stages of life

  Elaborations

  • identifying the major parts of the body by their proper names and beginning to describe their function
  • identifying those parts of the body that are ‘private’ and identify the contexts in which body parts should be kept private
  • learning how bodies grow and change over time through major stages of life, baby, toddler, child, teenager, adult, older person

  VCHPEP044 | Health and Physical Education | Level D | Personal, Social and Community Health | Being healthy, safe and active

• VCPSCSE075

  Identify situations that could be a problem or challenge and discuss relevant self-help skills

  Elaborations

  • expressing and communicating their feelings, needs and choices in increasingly appropriate ways
  • showing a readiness and willingness to be taught how to do some things not yet learned or tried
  • seeking help when they cannot solve a problem or challenge, or when a peer needs help

  VCPSCSE075 | Capabilities | Personal and Social Capability | Level D | Self-Awareness and Management | Development of resilience

• VCAVAE013

  Explore ideas, experiences and observations to create visual artworks

  Elaborations

  • experiencing a variety of learning experiences that encourage them to express and communicate experiences, observations, ideas and feelings about themselves and their world
  • creating arts works that have a social purpose, e.g. Easter egg, birthday card
  • using a variety of basic tools and materials safely to create visual art works including constructions and sculptures
  • participating in teacher directed class discussions which enable students to learn, discuss and express opinions about the available ways to create and make art works
  • using colour and/ or shape to communicate moods or feelings in their artworks
  • practicing drawing images and making objects related to self and personal environments in different forms, for example, painting, sculpture, photography
  • using visual conventions in their artworks after exploring different art, craft and design styles and techniques from other cultures and times, for example, Expressionism, Fauvism, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples, and Asia

  VCAVAE013 | The Arts | Visual Arts | Level D | Explore and Express Ideas

• VCADRD014

  Use voice, facial expression, movement and/or space to express ideas and feelings about their world

  Elaborations

  • communicate a character’s feelings at specific points in a familiar story
  • provided with a variety of learning experience that encourage them to express and communicate experiences, observations, ideas and feelings about themselves and their world
  • participate in simple drama activities and use gesture, sound and facial expression to communicate a character’s feelings
  • communicating verbally by using the voice to explore and show role and situation
  • communicating non-verbally by using facial expression and movement to explore and show role and situation

  VCADRD014 | The Arts | Drama | Level D | Drama Practices

• VCADRE013

  Explore how characters express ideas in dramatic play

  Elaborations

  • creating a play about a social situation
  • creating a play with a social purpose
  • using gesture, sound and/ or facial expressions to communicate a character’s feelings at different points in a familiar story
  • taking part in purposeful dramatic play focusing on experiencing the roles and situations they create
  • exploring possibilities for role and situation when participating in whole group teacher-led process drama and role play
  • learning how to work safely during drama activities and following safety rules of the space

  VCADRE013 | The Arts | Drama | Level D | Explore and Express Ideas

• VCAMAM014

  Develop skills to use media technology to capture images, sounds and text for a story

  Elaborations

  • using graphic programs with support
  • exploring and using a variety of media technology and learning how to use specific elements such as draw, sound mixing, editing, effects
  • experimenting with and managing a digital camera to capture still images, for example, reviewing captured images, zooming in and out
  • beginning to use computer software to create a photo story using set rules and steps

  VCAMAM014 | The Arts | Media Arts | Level D | Media Arts Practices

• VCAMUM014

  Sing, use body percussion and/or play instruments to improvise patterns and practise chants, songs and rhymes

  Elaborations

  • responding to changes in rhythm and tempo when moving to music
  • recognising and singing songs associated with an occasion, e.g. happy birthday
  • practicing techniques for singing songs and playing classroom instruments
  • singing and playing music to explore the expressive possibilities of their voices and instruments
  • practicing and performing music including using accessible technologies
  • learning a song used by groups in the local community, such as Aboriginal songs or Torres Strait Islander songs from their community, following respecting cultural protocols

  VCAMUM014 | The Arts | Music | Level D | Music Practices

• VCELA129

  Understand that people communicate in different ways

  Elaborations

  • knowing that people use different communication forms, such as image, voice, facial expressions or sign, to communicate the same intention, for example ‘stop’ as a sign, image or expression
  • recognising that people communicate in different ways
  • learning that English is the spoken language used at school
  • modifying the style (for example, volume, rate or intensity) of communication to suit familiar locations and contexts

  VCELA129 | Curriculum content | English | Level D | Speaking and Listening | Language

• VCELA122

  Use, communicate or articulate high-frequency words and reproduce familiar sounds and their letters

  Elaborations

  • identifying the beginning sound of own names and other familiar words
  • using and articulating a range of familiar words
  • repeating short refrains from texts, for example ‘I think I can’, ‘I’m not scared’, ‘Where are you?’
  • identifying some words with the same onset, for example objects that start with the same letter as their name
  • learning to recognize some letter-sound relationships

  VCELA122 | Curriculum content | English | Level D | Writing | Language

• VCHPEM050

  Practise simple gross motor and fine motor skills in a range of environments showing increasing control

  Elaborations

  • beginning to anticipate the next step in familiar physical routines
  • performing a range of water confidence skills including learning in aquatic sessions to perform a safe entry into the pool and blowing bubbles with face in water
  • riding a bicycle in structured environments
  • performing various locomotor skills once modelled
  • sending and receiving objects at different levels and in different ways

  VCHPEM050 | Health and Physical Education | Level D | Movement and Physical Activity | Moving the body

• VCHPEP046

  Practise personal skills of self-care, hygiene and independence and practise social skills to interact with others

  Elaborations

  • practising personal skills including expressing needs, wants and feelings; active listening and showing self-discipline to be an effective group member
  • undertaking basic self-care and personal hygiene activities with occasional prompts and minimal supervision
  • learning to judge right and wrong on the basis of the consequences of their actions.
  • listening to stories about characters who are making friends, working in a group and discussing how the character could deal with the various situation

  VCHPEP046 | Health and Physical Education | Level D | Personal, Social and Community Health | Communicating and interacting for health and wellbeing