Key ideas
Overarching idea: Creating preferred futures The Technologies curriculum provides students with opportunities to consider how solutions that are created now will be used in the future. Students will identify the possible benefits and risks of creating …
Key ideas | Technologies | F-10 curriculum
Peg's Creek Primary School
Peg's Creek Primary School is an independent public school, centrally located in the City of Karratha, 1600 km north-west of Perth. The school is a part of the Pilbara Education District and is one of five public primary schools and one Catholic primary …
Peg's Creek Primary School | Illustrations of practice | Primary curriculum | Resources
Walcha Central School (Years 5 and 6)
Walcha Central Public School is located in Walcha, New South Wales on the Traditional Lands of the Dhungutti People. The focus of their Years 5-6 STEM Connections illustration of practice was an integrated learning approach to a food and fibre production …
Walcha Central School (Years 5 and 6) | Illustrations of practice | STEM | Resources
Career Education: linking with community through social enterprise
This Illustration of practice demonstrates how Bunbury Cathedral Grammar School incorporates career education in an annual event tailored for students in Years 7 to 9. ‘IMPACT Week’, provides students with opportunities to engage in ‘real world’ problem …
Career Education: linking with community through social enterprise | Illustrations of practice | General capabilities and career education | Resources
Career education: developing general capabilities across the curriculum
This illustration of practice describes how Kings Meadows High School incorporates the Tasmanian Department of Education My Education initiative to provide career education programs for students in Years 7 to 10. Each term, two My Education days are …
Career education: developing general capabilities across the curriculum | Illustrations of practice | General capabilities and career education | Resources
Consumer and financial literacy: English
The Australian Curriculum: English has an important role in developing consumer and financial literacy in young people. The English curriculum develops students’ understanding of how to read, view and interpret texts. Through the literacy strand of the …
Consumer and financial literacy: English | Subjects | Dimensions | Curriculum connections | Resources
English: Creating stories
This Illustration of Practice takes place in a classroom at Emmanuel Christian Community School where a teacher of a class of 27 students, of whom 18 are learning English as an Additional Language or Dialect (EAL/D), selects age-appropriate content from …
English: Creating stories | Illustrations of practice | Student diversity | Resources
Structure of Essential English Essential English
Units Unit 1 focuses on students comprehending and responding to the ideas and information presented in texts drawn from a range of contexts. Students are taught a variety of strategies to assist comprehension. They read, view and listen to texts to connect, …
Structure of Essential English | Essential English | English | Senior secondary curriculum
Career education: linking STEM learning with real-world problem solving
This illustration of practice highlights how Norwood Morialta High School designed a career education program that provided students with the opportunity to develop a range of general capabilities. Students engaged in collaborative learning experiences …
Career education: linking STEM learning with real-world problem solving | Illustrations of practice | General capabilities and career education | Resources
Career education: a community approach
This illustration of practice highlights how Broome Senior High School and St. Mary’s College collaborate with a range of local agencies to design a Career Expo and career-related learning experience to celebrate National Careers Week. The Career Expo …
Career education: a community approach | Illustrations of practice | General capabilities and career education | Resources
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
Mathematics: Money and financial literacy
Inverloch Primary School provides cohesive learning, engagement and wellbeing programs. The ‘Challenging Learning and Growth Mindset’ helps provide a rich theoretical and practical approach to learning. The school caters for the diversity of students …
Mathematics: Money and financial literacy | Illustrations of practice | Student diversity | Resources
Representation of General capabilities
Literacy is important in students’ development of Science Inquiry Skills and their understanding of content presented through the Science Understanding and Science as a Human Endeavour strands. Students gather, interpret, synthesise and critically analyse …
Representation of General capabilities | Science | Senior secondary curriculum
Rationale Dance
This rationale complements and extends the rationale for The Arts learning area. Dance is expressive movement with purpose and form. Through dance, students represent, question and celebrate human experience, using the body as the instrument and movement …
Rationale | Dance | The Arts | 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
Science - Energy transfer
At St Mary MacKillop College, a Year 8 Science teacher/Sustainability co-ordinator ensured that all students were engaged, supported and challenged during a practical investigation about the transference and transformation of energy and wind turbines. …
Science - Energy transfer | Illustrations of practice | Student diversity | Resources
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
St Peter Chanel Catholic School
St Peter Chanel developed a whole-school initiative to concentrate on teaching mathematics through the proficiencies. The entire staff engaged with the analysis of the school data to find areas where the focus of teaching was to occur. The initiative …
St Peter Chanel Catholic School | Illustrations of practice | Mathematics proficiencies | Resources
St Mary's School, Greenborough
St Mary's is a Catholic primary school in the northern suburbs of Melbourne. At the time of filming there were 540 students, 39 teaching staff (including part-time teachers) and 15 non-teaching staff. A comprehensive, rich, values-based curriculum is …
St Mary's School, Greenborough | Illustrations of practice | Primary curriculum | Resources