The Arts: Visual Arts - Above satisfactory - Years 3 and 4
This portfolio of student work shows that the student can identify and describe complex visual conventions of an artwork (item 1) and draw and plan their own artworks (items 2 and 3). They use visual conventions, processes and techniques to create several …
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HASS - Above satisfactory - Year 4
This portfolio of student works shows that the student can recognise the significance of events in bringing about change (WS2, WS3) and the importance of the environment (WS6). The student explains how and why life changed in the past (WS3) and describes …
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The Arts: Dance - Above satisfactory - Years 3 and 4
This portfolio of student work shows that the student can perform with strong dynamics with control, focus and accuracy, and can structure dance using choreographic devices including transition and contrast. The student is able to demonstrate an understanding …
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The Arts: Drama - Above satisfactory - Years 3 and 4
This portfolio of student work shows that the student can use voice and movement to express character emotional states (Item 1). The student is able to make decisions to demonstrate that a character has undergone change (Item 1). They can demonstrate …
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The Arts: Music - Above satisfactory - Years 3 and 4
This portfolio of student work shows that the student can collaborate to perform in a class ensemble with control and a good awareness of the elements of music (WS1). It also shows that the student can perform their own part singing and/or singing and …
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Design and Technologies - Above satisfactory - Years 3 and 4
This portfolio of student work shows that the student can explain how products, services and environments are designed to best meet needs of communities and their environments (WS1, WS2, WS3). The student describes contributions of people in design and …
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Digital Technologies - Above satisfactory - Years 3 and 4
This portfolio of student work shows that the student can describe how a range of digital systems (hardware and software) and their peripheral devices can be used for different purposes (WS1). The student explains how the same data sets can be represented …
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The Arts: Media Arts - Above satisfactory - Years 3 and 4
This portfolio of student work shows that the student can describe a film trailer and discuss some of the elements and processes that they use to communicate to an audience (WS1). The student can discuss how they collaborate with others (WS1). They can …
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Health and Physical Education - Above satisfactory - Years 3 and 4
This portfolio of student work shows that the students explain how personal strengths can support and shape their identity (WS6). Students identify qualities they would like to improve and how, by improving this quality, they can overcome challenges (WS6). …
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Demonstration: Gymnastics - Years 3 and 4 - ABOVE
As part of a four-week gymnastics unit, students were introduced to activities and practised beginning positions, static balances, rotations, landings and transitions. Safety elements were incorporated into all lessons, including specific and safe warm-up …
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The Arts: Visual Arts - Above satisfactory - Years 5 and 6
This portfolio of student work shows that the student understands, explores and demonstrates the influences and practices of cubism to plan and make artworks (items 1, 2 and 3). The student explains their understanding of how ideas are represented and …
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Work Studies - Above satisfactory - Year 10
This portfolio of student work shows that the student can explain the relationship between changing circumstances, 21st work opportunities and the characteristics needed to participate in emerging work arrangements (WS1, WS3, WS4). The student can apply …
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Digital project: Bee-Bot - ABOVE
Students explored the concept of sequencing steps and decisions using Bee-Bots. They worked in groups to solve progressively more complex routes using grids on paper. Students then programmed the Bee-Bots to navigate grids created on the floor using masking …
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Pairs: Seasons - Above
Students made and responded to dance by exploring seasons as a stimulus in a short unit of work. They also individually choreographed a dance to represent their chosen season. They were guided through the process of developing movements to represent a …
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Demonstration: Rolling rally - ABOVE
In Term 4, Foundation students participated in a ball control unit utilising a variety of ball types and ball sizes. Students were asked to design a court space with boundaries, including a line to divide the area in two. Students were then required …
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Digital project: Learning tool - ABOVE
Students collaboratively designed a learning tool featuring branching and repetition. The learning tool aimed to give opportunities for players (Year 3 and Year 4 students) to explore, practise and apply mathematical concepts and skills (multiplication …
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Rates of reaction – ABOVE
Students were asked to research factors that affect the rate of a chemical reaction. Working in groups of 3–4, students were asked to select one factor and design and perform an experiment to confirm its effect. Students presented their findings individually …
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Folk music: North American - ABOVE
Students studied American folk music and the origins of blues in a 10-week unit that differentiated for a range of abilities in class. In particular, they studied traditional North American blues and gospel music, focusing on This Train is Bound for Glory …
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Cubism: Portraits - ABOVE
Students researched and explored synthetic and analytical cubism and the Spanish artist Pablo Picasso. They explored the visual conventions of and social and historical influences on cubism through structured inquiry that was prepared for them by their …
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Clay objects: Connection to our coast - ABOVE
Students considered how artists communicate their viewpoints and connection to the natural environment though their artwork. They created ceramic forms inspired by the artworks of Alison Brown and Aboriginal Thaynakwith artist, Thancoupie. They also identified …
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