By the end of Level 6, students distinguish between needs and wants and recognise that choices need to be made when allocating resources. They recognise that consumer choices and financial decisions are influenced by a range of factors and describe the effects of these choices and decisions on...
Level description | The Humanities | Economics and Business | Levels 5 and 6
At Level A2 students read and respond to a wide range of familiar texts. These texts may be print or digital texts, including visual, multimodal or interactive texts.
Students predict, ask questions, retell and talk about texts read and viewed in class. With support, they read a range of...
Level description | English | English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Pathway A: Early immersion | EAL | Level A2 | Reading and Viewing
At Level A1 students read and engage with a wide range of short, simple, repetitive texts, including shared recounts and fictional and everyday texts. These texts may be in print or visual form.
Students read in context some familiar words, phrases, numbers and signs. They complete simple...
Level description | English | English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Pathway A: Early immersion | EAL | Level A1 | Reading and Viewing
At Level A2 students communicate in an expanding range of predictable social and learning situations. They express ideas and identify key points of information in classroom discussions about familiar topics, and in new topics when they are well supported by visual material, an appropriate pace...
Level description | English | English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Pathway A: Early immersion | EAL | Level A2 | Speaking and Listening
At Level A1 students communicate in basic English in routine, familiar, social and classroom situations. They follow and give simple instructions, exchange basic personal information, and negotiate well-known, predictable activities and contexts. They begin to modify their responses and manner...
Level description | English | English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Pathway A: Early immersion | EAL | Level A1 | Speaking and Listening
At Level A1 students communicate their ideas and experiences simply through drawings, copied writing, dictated texts and their own basic writing, showing evidence of a developing understanding of the writing process. They contribute to shared writing activities. They demonstrate an early awareness...
Level description | English | English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Pathway A: Early immersion | EAL | Level A1 | Writing
The Level A1 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. As a result, they begin to recognise the ways...
Level description | English | English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Pathway A: Early immersion | EAL
At Level B3 students read for a range of purposes and identify main ideas and specific information in classroom texts. These texts may be print or digital, including visual, multimodal and interactive.
Students demonstrate understanding of the main storyline and most key information when...
Level description | English | English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Pathway A: Early immersion | EAL | Level B3 | Reading and Viewing
At Level B2 students read familiar and unfamiliar texts containing predictable structures and familiar vocabulary. These texts may be print or digital, including visual, multimodal and interactive.
Students follow simple written instructions and questions. They identify the basic purposes...
Level description | English | English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Pathway A: Early immersion | EAL | Level B2 | Reading and Viewing
Students working at Level B1 read short familiar texts, based on simple language structures and features, common vocabulary and familiar contexts. They retell simply, predict likely outcomes, sequence ideas, and complete basic comprehension activities. These texts may be print or digital, including...
Level description | English | English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Pathway A: Early immersion | EAL | Level B1 | Reading and Viewing
At Level B1 students communicate verbally and non-verbally in routine social and classroom situations, understanding controlled English that is supported by its immediate context. They use formulas, well-rehearsed and common sentence patterns, and short, simple utterances to contribute relatively...
Level description | English | English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Pathway A: Early immersion | EAL | Level B1 | Speaking and Listening
At Level B3 students generally respond to and use the structures and features of English appropriately in an increasing variety of familiar formal and informal contexts. They demonstrate awareness of the register requirements of spoken English necessary for a variety of purposes. They understand...
Level description | English | English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Pathway A: Early immersion | EAL | Level B3 | Speaking and Listening
At Level B1 students write and present simple texts for a variety of basic classroom and personal purposes. With support, they communicate familiar ideas, events and experiences, writing simple narratives, recounts, descriptions and reports. Students use some of the basic structures and features...
Level description | English | English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Pathway A: Early immersion | EAL | Level B1 | Writing
At Level B3 students communicate for a range of purposes on a variety of familiar topics, using a basic repertoire of text types. They write sequenced and ordered factual texts, and narrative texts that maintain a cohesive storyline and characterisation. They demonstrate an awareness of how effective...
Level description | English | English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Pathway A: Early immersion | EAL | Level B3 | Writing
At Level C3 students demonstrate a basic understanding of the main ideas, issues or plot developments in a range of accessible texts from across the curriculum. These texts may be print or digital texts, including handwritten, visual, multimodal and interactive texts.
Students demonstrate...
Level description | English | English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Pathway A: Early immersion | EAL | Level C3 | Reading and Viewing
At Level C4 students compare and make judgments about different texts (such as texts on the same topic by different authors) and read a wide range of accessible and culturally appropriate texts from across the curriculum with a high degree of independence. These texts may be print or digital texts...
Level description | English | English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Pathway A: Early immersion | EAL | Level C4 | Reading and Viewing
At Level C3 students listen, question and respond successfully in a wide range of social and academic contexts. They demonstrate sufficient control of stress, rhythm and intonation to be understood in most contexts. They use appropriate non-verbal language, take account of purpose and audience...
Level description | English | English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Pathway A: Early immersion | EAL | Level C3 | Speaking and Listening
At Level C4 students demonstrate greater autonomy and control over their use of English, combining their expanding vocabulary with the appropriate use of a wide range of complex grammatical features including modal verbs, passive voice and tenses. They demonstrate understanding of the ways that...
Level description | English | English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Pathway A: Early immersion | EAL | Level C4 | Speaking and Listening
At Level C1 students write for a range of basic classroom and personal purposes, making lists and writing simple journal entries, notes, descriptions, recounts of events and instructional texts. Their basic sentences and short texts are based on well-practised spoken English and familiar contexts...
Level description | English | English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Pathway A: Early immersion | EAL | Level C1 | Writing
At Level C2 students write with a degree of autonomy for a range of everyday classroom and personal purposes, such as describing, explaining and recounting. They independently write some basic texts and experiment with presenting their own ideas. Their texts show varying grammatical accuracy....
Level description | English | English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Pathway A: Early immersion | EAL | Level C2 | Writing
