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• Health and Physical Education | Health and Physical Education: Learning in Health and Physical Education

  The Health and Physical Education curriculum plays a significant role in building the knowledge, skills and understandings that apply to a range of health, wellbeing, safety and movement contexts, including:

  • Swimming and water safety
  • Respectful relationships
  • Building resilience
  • Healt...

  Overview material | Health and Physical Education

• Languages | Arabic: Learning in Arabic

  Arabic language learning

  Arabic is spoken by approximately 280 million people in 22 countries over several continents. It is the official language of the Arab world, which includes countries of the Middle East, North Africa and the Gulf region, and is one of the official languages of the United...

  Overview material | Arabic

• Languages | Italian: Learning in Italian

  Italian language learning

  Italian belongs to the Romance family of languages and is closely connected to its ‘sibling’ languages of Spanish, Portuguese and French. It also has many commonalities and connections with English, sharing many Latin-derived words and using the same Roman...

  Overview material | Italian

• VCCCTM079

  Use some learning strategies to demonstrate their learning and thinking

  Elaborations

  • sequencing images to recall key events or everyday routines
  • following step by step instruction/ images to complete tasks
  • using repetition and visuals to understand and solve problems

  VCCCTM079 | Capabilities | Critical and Creative Thinking | Level C | Meta-Cognition

• Languages | Chinese: Learning in Chinese

  Chinese language learning

  China's official language is Modern Standard Chinese, or Putonghua (the common or shared language) in Chinese. The language is also referred to as Hanyu, the spoken language of the Han people, or Zhongwen, the written language of China. In Taiwan it is more usually called...

  Overview material | Chinese

• Languages | Spanish: Learning in Spanish

  Spanish language learning

  Spanish is a language spoken by approximately 500 million people across the world. Spanish evolved from Latin on the Iberian Peninsula in around the ninth century, and spread from Spain to the Caribbean and to North, Central and South America as a result of the expeditions...

  Overview material | Spanish

• Turkish - 7–10 Sequence: Levels 7 and 8 description

  Students recognise and use key elements of Turkish grammar, such as word order, positions of adjectives, adverbs and postpositions, and recognise how grammatical forms and functions are represented through agglutination. They apply the principles of vowel harmony, for example, when adding nominal...

  Level description | Languages | Turkish | 7–10 Sequence

• Languages | Modern Greek: Learning in Modern Greek

  Modern Greek language learning

  Modern Greek is the official language of Greece and Cyprus. It is spoken throughout the world – wherever there are Greek-speaking communities. One of the major characteristics of the extensive Greek Diaspora is the maintenance of the Greek language and culture...

  Overview material | Modern Greek

• Languages | Turkish: Learning in Turkish

  Turkish language learning

  Turkish is the official language of the Republic of Turkey and one of the official languages of Cyprus. It originated many centuries ago in the Northern Siberian Altay Mountain Range. Nomadic people brought the language with them as they expanded out to Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan...

  Overview material | Turkish

• The Humanities | Geography: Rationale and Aims

  Rationale

  The Geography curriculum presents a structured way of exploring, analysing and understanding the characteristics of the places that make up our world, using the concepts of place, space, environment, interconnection, sustainability, scale and change. It addresses scales from the personal...

  Overview material | Geography

• The Humanities | Economics and Business: Structure

  Economics and Business is organised by six strands. Throughout these strands the study of economics and business issues, events and business case studies form an integral component of the curriculum. The content is intended to be taught through relevant contexts, which will help students make...

  Overview material | Economics and Business

• VCCCTM061

  Experience the implementation of learning strategies and use of repetition in their learning experiences

  Elaborations

  • reacting to repetition in their everyday routines
  • encountering adults’ modelling strategies and reasoning – using a think aloud
  • learning how to communicate their needs to others in the same way

  VCCCTM061 | Capabilities | Critical and Creative Thinking | Level A | Meta-Cognition

• VCCCTM070

  Experience the learning strategies of visualisation and repetition

  Elaborations

  • practising and developing skills through routine activities and repetition
  • using visual strategies to assist in their learning
  • using learning strategies in structured learning experiences so they can be used in new and/or different situations

  VCCCTM070 | Capabilities | Critical and Creative Thinking | Level B | Meta-Cognition

• VCEALA329

  Participate appropriately in social and learning situations

  Elaborations

  • applying conventions of interaction, such as conversational formulas, turn-taking, affirming, suggesting, discussing
  • participating in interactions by listening actively, responding to others and contributing information and ideas
  • negotiating meaning through use of gestures, modified speech, simple questions and clarifications

  VCEALA329 | Curriculum content | English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Level B2 | Speaking and Listening | Cultural and Plurilingual Awareness

• VCEALC003

  Negotiate simple social or learning activities

  Elaborations

  • observing peers and copying actions in response to instructions or in classroom activities
  • asking for attention or assistance from the teacher or a friend by asking directly, using intonation to signal requests or indicating non-understanding through speech or body language
  • understanding common vocabulary related to needs (such as ‘toilet’, ‘pencil’, ‘stop’) and constructing simple phrases with this vocabulary (such as ‘Go toilet?’, ‘This my pencil’, ‘Stop that!’)
  • using picture cards, classroom charts and objects to support communication, for example pointing to a picture

  VCEALC003 | Curriculum content | English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Level A1 | Speaking and Listening | Communication

• VCEALC482

  Participate in familiar situations and learning activities

  Elaborations

  • understanding and participating in common classroom routines such as retrieving equipment or forming groups
  • requesting assistance where required, by asking directly or indicating non-understanding through speech or body language
  • understanding common classroom action verbs, such as ‘sit’, ‘collect’, ‘open’, ‘stop’

  VCEALC482 | Curriculum content | English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Level CL | Speaking and Listening | Communication

• VCZHC153

  Reflect on the benefits of learning Chinese and English

  Elaborations

  • noticing and reflecting on how interacting in Chinese feels different to interacting in English, and identifying ways of communicating or behaving that appear culturally specific
  • discussing language choices expected or required in diverse contexts across languages, for example, apologising, congratulating, expressing thanks, declining, rejecting, complaining
  • engaging with Chinese peers in diverse contexts, identifying situations in which misunderstanding or miscommunication occurs and exploring strategies to overcome these
  • recognising signals within an interaction that require adjustment of language choices

  VCZHC153 | Languages | Chinese | Background Language Learner | F–10 Sequence | Levels 5 and 6 | Communicating | Reflecting

• Languages | Hindi: Learning in Hindi

  Hindi language learning

  Hindi is an official language of India and Fiji. It is the most widely spoken language of the Indian subcontinent and is also widely spoken throughout the world in countries that include the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, Mauritius, the Gulf countries and Australia.

  Overview material | Hindi

• VCADAD035

  Practise and refine technical and expressive skills in style-specific techniques

  Elaborations

  • learn, extending and practising movement vocabulary relevant to specific styles
  • extending technical competences such as articulation, control, coordination, accuracy, alignment, balance, flexibility, strength and endurance
  • using questions to develop or extend understanding of style-specific techniques, for example, viewing dances from different cultures and asking ‘is the relationship between dance, sound or music accompaniment the same for each dance?’, or ‘How costumes and props are used symbolically in dances?’
  • applying safe dance practices when performing a specific dance style, for example, identifying the musculoskeletal system and linking to alignment
  • analysing and practising technical skills to build safe dance practice, for example, develop awareness of self and others in a dance space and use techniques to control movement through the space

  VCADAD035 | The Arts | Dance | Levels 7 and 8 | Dance Practices

• VCZHU026

  Recognise the tone-syllable nature of spoken language, and compare Chinese and English sounds

  Elaborations

  • explaining the use of Pinyin as a learning tool to reflect the sound of Chinese spoken language, and recognising sounds associated with individual letters and syllables, differentiating, for example, qī , piě, rán and qù from English sounds for such letters and syllables
  • listening to and viewing simple conversational exchanges, recognising tone-syllables and experiencing the differences between Chinese and English intonation
  • recognising when and why some tones are not expressed in some contexts, for example, repetition of syllables in ‘Mama’, neutral tone on second syllable
  • listening to and reading out loud a nursery rhyme with strong Chinese prosodic features such as 《小老鼠，上灯台》
  • engaging in activities to raise tonal awareness, such as competing with classmates to read a tongue twister (妈妈骂马) and using hand gestures to help pronounce different tones

  VCZHU026 | Languages | Chinese | Second Language Learner | F–10 Sequence | Levels 3 and 4 | Understanding | Systems of language