Achievement Standard Mathematics Foundation Year
By the end of the Foundation year, students make connections between number names, numerals and quantities up to 10. They compare objects using mass, length and capacity. Students connect events and the days of the week. They explain the order and …
Achievement Standard | Achievement Standards | Foundation Year | Mathematics | F-10 curriculum
Achievement Standard Mathematics Year 2
By the end of Year 2, students recognise increasing and decreasing number sequences involving 2s, 3s and 5s. They represent multiplication and division by grouping into sets. They associate collections of Australian coins with their value. Students …
Achievement Standard | Achievement Standards | Year 2 | Mathematics | F-10 curriculum
Learning 7-10
In Years 7–10 the Australian Curriculum supports the deepening of knowledge, understanding and skills in all eight learning areas. The curriculum continues to prepare students for civic, social and economic participation and personal health and well-being …
Learning 7-10 | F-10 curriculum
History Achievement Standard HASS Foundation Year
By the end of the Foundation year, students identify important events in their own lives. They identify how they, their families and friends know about their past and commemorate events that are important to them. Students sequence familiar events in …
History Achievement Standard | Achievement Standards | Foundation Year | HASS | Humanities and Social Sciences | F-10 curriculum
Rationale HASS
In a world that is increasingly culturally diverse and dynamically interconnected, it is important that students come to understand their world, past and present, and develop a capacity to respond to challenges, now and in the future, in innovative, informed, …
Rationale | HASS | Humanities and Social Sciences | F-10 curriculum
Implications for teaching, assessing and reporting
The Australian Curriculum defines a solid foundation in knowledge, understanding, skills and values for all Australian children. It recognises that children are different: they develop at different rates, have different learning preferences and areas …
Implications for teaching, assessing and reporting | F-10 curriculum
Learning F-2
Students bring to school a wide range of experiences, abilities, needs and interests. They have a natural curiosity about their world. Their desire to make sense of the world provides a platform to plan and review their learning through interactions with …
Learning F-2 | F-10 curriculum
Achievement Standard Mathematics Year 4
By the end of Year 4, students choose appropriate strategies for calculations involving multiplication and division. They recognise common equivalent fractions in familiar contexts and make connections between fraction and decimal notations up to two …
Achievement Standard | Achievement Standards | Year 4 | Mathematics | F-10 curriculum
Achievement Standard Mathematics Year 5
By the end of Year 5, students solve simple problems involving the four operations using a range of strategies. They check the reasonableness of answers using estimation and rounding. Students identify and describe factors and multiples. They identify …
Achievement Standard | Achievement Standards | Year 5 | Mathematics | F-10 curriculum
Achievement Standard Mathematics Year 1
By the end of Year 1, students describe number sequences resulting from skip counting by 2s, 5s and 10s. They identify representations of one half. They recognise Australian coins according to their value. Students explain time durations. They describe …
Achievement Standard | Achievement Standards | Year 1 | Mathematics | F-10 curriculum
Achievement Standard Mathematics Year 10
By the end of Year 10, students recognise the connection between simple and compound interest. They solve problems involving linear equations and inequalities. They make the connections between algebraic and graphical representations of relations. Students …
Achievement Standard | Achievement Standards | Year 10 | Mathematics | F-10 curriculum
Key ideas
Through their learning in each subject or sub-strand, students develop knowledge and understanding relating to broader enduring ideas that underpin the Humanities and Social Sciences in the Australian Curriculum, which are represented in varying ways …
Key ideas | Humanities and Social Sciences | F-10 curriculum
Learning 3-6
The Australian Curriculum across Years 3–6 assists students to develop their ability to take positive action for well-being; relate and communicate well with others; pose questions and solve problems; make informed decisions and act responsibly. It engages …
Learning 3-6 | F-10 curriculum
Aims Mathematics
The Australian Curriculum: Mathematics aims to ensure that students: are confident, creative users and communicators of mathematics, able to investigate, represent and interpret situations in their personal and work lives and as active citizens develop …
Aims | Mathematics | F-10 curriculum
Year 5 Science
The science inquiry skills and science as a human endeavour strands are described across a two-year band. In their planning, schools and teachers refer to the expectations outlined in the achievement standard and also to the content of the science understanding …
Year 5 | Science | F-10 curriculum
Implementation of the Australian Curriculum
State and territory curriculum and school authorities are responsible for the implementation of the Australian Curriculum in their schools, in line with system and jurisdictional policies and requirements. They make decisions about the extent and timing …
Implementation of the Australian Curriculum | F-10 curriculum
Achievement Standard Mathematics Year 8
By the end of Year 8, students solve everyday problems involving rates, ratios and percentages. They describe index laws and apply them to whole numbers. They describe rational and irrational numbers. Students solve problems involving profit and loss. …
Achievement Standard | Achievement Standards | Year 8 | Mathematics | F-10 curriculum
Achievement Standard History Year 8
By the end of Year 8, students recognise and explain patterns of change and continuity over time. They explain the causes and effects of events and developments. They identify the motives and actions of people at the time. Students explain the significance …
Achievement Standard | Achievement Standards | Year 8 | History | Humanities and Social Sciences | F-10 curriculum
Year 9 Economics and Business
The Year 9 curriculum gives students the opportunity to further develop their understanding of economics and business concepts by exploring the interactions within the global economy. Students are introduced to the concept of an ‘economy’ and explore …
Year 9 | Economics and Business | Humanities and Social Sciences | F-10 curriculum
Aims English
The Australian Curriculum: English aims to ensure that students: learn to listen to, read, view, speak, write, create and reflect on increasingly complex and sophisticated spoken, written and multimodal texts across a growing range of contexts with accuracy, …
Aims | English | F-10 curriculum