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• English as an Additional Language (EAL) - Pathway B: Mid immersion - EAL: Level B1 description

  The curriculum for Level B1 supports students to develop their communication skills both verbally and non-verbally. Students follow simple instructions, answer predictable questions, make basic requests and express needs simply. Through active participation in conversations, students learn about...

  Level description | English | English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Pathway B: Mid immersion | EAL

• English as an Additional Language (EAL) - Pathway C: Late immersion - EAL: Level CL description

  The Level CL curriculum supports students as they develop basic knowledge, understanding and skills in English. Through immersion in English, students build their capacity to participate in routine and familiar exchanges in English with their peers. The curriculum covers the practising of pronunciation...

  Level description | English | English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Pathway C: Late immersion | EAL

• English: Level 1 description

  In Level 1, students communicate with peers, teachers, known adults and students from other classes.

  Students engage with a variety of texts for enjoyment. They listen to, read, view and interpret spoken, written and multimodal texts designed to entertain and inform. These encompass traditional...

  Level description | English

• English: Level 2 description

  In Level 2, students communicate with peers, teachers, students from other classes, and community members.

  Students engage with a variety of texts for enjoyment. They listen to, read, view and interpret spoken, written and multimodal texts in which the primary purpose is to entertain, as well as...

  Level description | English

• Health and Physical Education: Level A description

  The Level A curriculum provides the basis for developing knowledge, understanding and skills for students to lead healthy, safe and active lives. Students learn about themselves and experience simple actions and activities to keep themselves healthy and safe.

  Students develop their awareness of...

  Level description | Health and Physical Education

• Health and Physical Education: Levels 9 and 10 achievement standards

  By the end of Level 10, students critically analyse contextual factors that influence their identities, relationships, decisions and behaviours. They analyse the impact of attitudes and beliefs about diversity on community connection and wellbeing. They evaluate the outcomes of emotional responses...

  Level description | Health and Physical Education | Levels 9 and 10

• Languages | Chinese: Scope and Sequence

  The curriculum sets out what students are expected to learn and is designed as a continuum of learning. The curriculum is being presented in a scope and sequence chart to support teachers to easily see the progression and assist in planning teaching and learning programs to meet the diverse needs...

  Overview material | Chinese

• Music: Levels 9 and 10 description

  In Levels 9 and 10, learning in Music involves students using their voices, instruments and technology as they make and respond to music independently and in small groups, and with their teachers and communities. They explore music as an art form through listening, composing and performing, developing...

  Level description | The Arts | Music

• Non-Roman Alphabet Languages - F–10 Sequence: Levels 3 and 4 description

  Students interact with peers and the teacher in a variety of communicative activities where grammar, vocabulary and pronunciation are purposefully integrated. They primarily engage in a variety of listening and viewing activities, and understand familiar stories, songs and poems. Language use...

  Level description | Languages | Non-Roman Alphabet Languages | F–10 Sequence

• Roman Alphabet Languages - F–10 Sequence: Foundation to Level 2 achievement standards

  By the end of Level 2, students interact with teachers and peers through play and action-related language. They use greetings and respond to instructions through actions. Students pronounce the sounds of the language. They recognise simple questions and can respond to them, in addition to names...

  Level description | Languages | Roman Alphabet Languages | F–10 Sequence | Foundation to Level 2

• The Arts | Visual Communication Design: Structure

  Strands

  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
  	Exploring and  experimenting with ideas and representations in Visual...

  Overview material | Visual Communication Design

• The Humanities | Civics and Citizenship: Structure

  Civics and Citizenship is organised by three strands: Government and Democracy, Laws and Citizens, and Citizenship, Diversity and Identity. 

  Strands	Government and Democracy	Laws and Citizens	Citizenship, Diversity and Identity
  	Involves a study of Australian democracy and the key institutions...

  Overview material | Civics and Citizenship

• VCADAE009

  Explore dance ideas that use safe fundamental movement patterns

  Elaborations

  • create and make their own dance in response to a stimuli, for example music, image or dance
  • exploring fundamental movements to improvise dance ideas, for example, rolling like a log, falling like an autumn leaf, floating like a cloud, gliding like a bird
  • exploring the elements of space, time, dynamics and relationships through movement, for example changing levels, tempo and dynamics when prompted by the teacher
  • viewing and discussing photos or video of dance sequences to explore ideas and movements used

  VCADAE009 | The Arts | Dance | Level C | Explore and Express Ideas

• VCADAE025

  Improvise and structure movement ideas for dance sequences using safe dance practice, the elements of dance and choreographic devices

  Elaborations

  • using the devices of contrast and repetition to explore and generate new movement ideas in response to stimuli, for example, using repetition to show emphasis
  • using questions to explore forms and elements of dances they view and make, for example, how shapes are combined and varied in the dance
  • exploring known movements to find alternative ways of performing them, for example, same action/different level, same action/different body part
  • completing structured improvisations using choreographic devices of unison, canon, contrast and repetition
  • working with symmetrical and asymmetrical group formations

  VCADAE025 | The Arts | Dance | Levels 3 and 4 | Explore and Express Ideas

• VCDTCD012

  Follow and represent a sequence of steps and decisions (algorithms) needed to solve simple problems

  Elaborations

  • taking and using photos to represent the sequence of events, for example placing in order photos of buildings/rooms that need to be passed when getting from the classroom to the front school gate
  • viewing a game and listing the number of levels within it
  • writing a simple set of instructions to sequence events, for example the processes involved in making toast with jam
  • recognising sequences of instructions or events that are commonly experienced such as crossing a road that has traffic lights

  VCDTCD012 | Technologies | Digital Technologies | Level D | Creating Digital Solutions

• VCEALL691

  Use longer descriptive phrase

  Elaborations

  • using possessive pronouns, for example ‘Their habitats’, ‘Its colours’
  • including some simple quantifiers, such as ‘some’, ‘a few’, ‘many’, ‘any’; for example ‘Their few small habitats’
  • using an expanding range of adjectives as describers and qualifiers, for example ‘The bird’s unusual colours’
  • using adverbs and levels of possibility as modifiers to add detail to verbs, for example ‘He trains diligently’, ‘She will definitely succeed’

  VCEALL691 | Curriculum content | English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Level C3 | Speaking and Listening | Linguistic Structures and Features

• VCELU014

  Recognise and understand characteristic features of common types of text, comparing them with equivalent texts in English

  Elaborations

  • comparing texts in Greek and English by identifying similarities and differences, for example, postcards, diary entries, short emails or a personal note to a friend
  • identifying characteristic features of familiar text types such as signs, instructions, songs, advertisements and invitations, and noting differences in expression and levels of formality, for example, a wedding invitation or a clothing sale at a store
  • transforming a simple text, such as a short song, into another text type, for example, a conversation or cartoon, applying the key features of the second text type and making comparisons with transforming a similar text in English

  VCELU014 | Languages | Modern Greek | 7–10 Sequence | Levels 7 and 8 | Understanding | Systems of language

• VCELY152

  Read texts with familiar structures and features, practising phrasing and fluency, and monitor meaning using concepts about print and emerging phonic, semantic, contextual and grammatical knowledge

  Elaborations

  • navigating a text correctly, starting at the right place and reading in the right direction, returning to the next line as needed, matching one spoken word to one written word
  • reading aloud with attempts at fluency and intonation
  • attempting to work out unknown words by combining contextual, semantic, grammatical and phonic knowledge
  • predicting what might happen on the basis of experience of this kind of text; at the sentence level predicting the meaning on the basis of syntax and word meaning

  VCELY152 | Curriculum content | English | Foundation Level | Reading and Viewing | Literacy

• VCESU032

  Analyse textual features of spoken, written and digital texts and consider how they shape meaning and influence responses

  Elaborations

  • comparing language features of Spanish and English versions of different types of texts, such as riddles, weather reports, text messages or horoscopes, noting differences that may be culturally significant
  • examining language structures and features used for specific communicative effect, such as to persuade, amuse, sympathise, challenge, include or exclude
  • understanding textual elements that provide coherence at a whole text level, such as cohesive devices (sin, aunque, debido a, según, por otro lado), linked paragraphs, introductions and summaries, and sequencing of ideas

  VCESU032 | Languages | Spanish | 7–10 Sequence | Levels 9 and 10 | Understanding | Systems of language

• VCGGK151

  Reasons and consequences for spatial variations in human wellbeing on a regional scale within India or another country of the Asia region; and on a local scale in Australia

  Elaborations

  • examining spatial data on human wellbeing in India to identify the regions with different levels of wellbeing, identifying patterns and debating explanations of the differences
  • examining how a person’s wellbeing is influenced by where they live, with reference to at least two different scales in a country of the Asia region
  • researching spatial differences in the wellbeing of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander population across Australia, and the extent to which these differences depend on how wellbeing is measured
  • explaining the spatial pattern of human wellbeing in Australia at a local scale, such as within a city or region, and its causes

  VCGGK151 | The Humanities | Geography | Levels 9 and 10 | Geographical Knowledge | Geographies of human wellbeing