My holiday story - Above
Students produced a sequence of drawings of the key events in a recent holiday. The drawings were completed in class on a teacher-provided template. The teacher then interviewed the student, posing questions about the holiday. A transcript of the interview …
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My birthday week – ABOVE
Students positioned their birthday on a template provided by the teacher. Students also recorded the date of each day on the template and used text and images to indicate all personal or public events and celebrations occurring within the week.
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World map – ABOVE
Students recorded the location of continents and oceans on a world map. Prior to students completing the activity, the teacher provided students with visual representations of key places using printed maps, globes and projections. Students completed their …
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What is a home? – ABOVE
Students completed a mind map template to record their answers to the question: ‘What is a home?’ The activity took place in class with students creating visual representations to support their own texts which were scribed by the teacher.
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My photo album – ABOVE
Students were asked to pose questions to their mothers regarding their lives at particular ages (baby, toddler, school student). The teacher subsequently transcribed students’ recollections of the answers to these questions. Students then created pictures, …
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Community walk map – ABOVE
Students undertook a supervised walk around the local community and recorded the journey on a template map containing key marker points. The teacher then interviewed the student, posing questions about the journey. A transcript of the interview is included …
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My special place – ABOVE
Students produced a drawing of an important place in their lives. The teacher then interviewed the students regarding the reasons why the places depicted were important. The explanations were transcribed by the teacher. The drawings and explanations formed …
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The Arts: Dance - Above satisfactory - Foundation to Year 2
This portfolio of student work shows that the student can demonstrate control and use well-developed movement and expressive skills (WS1). The student can perform their own choreography and lead a dance partner in a dance performance (WS2). They can …
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The Arts: Drama - Above satisfactory - Foundation to Year 2
This portfolio of student work shows that the student can maintain focus and demonstrate sustained choices in role with some aspects of character in a class performance. They can improvise and use movement to represent a range of situations; and show …
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The Arts: Music - Above satisfactory - Foundation to Year 2
This portfolio of student work shows that the student can perform in a small class ensemble and compose music using graphic notation (WS1). It also shows that the student can sing a learned melody, compose music, and sing, or sing and play, from a simple …
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Design and Technologies - Above satisfactory - Foundation to Year 2
This portfolio of student work shows that the student can describe the purpose of familiar products, services and environments and how they meet the needs of users and affect others and environments (WS1, WS2, WS3). The student identifies the features …
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Digital Technologies - Above satisfactory - Foundation to Year 2
This portfolio of student work shows that the student can identify how common digital systems (hardware and software) are used to meet specific purposes (WS4). The student uses digital systems to represent simple patterns in data in different ways (WS1, …
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The Arts: Media Arts - Above satisfactory - Foundation to Year 2
This portfolio of student work shows that the student can use technical elements from the process of stop motion animation to complete an artwork with good consideration to composition (WS1). The student can give reason for making a media artwork (WS1) …
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The Arts: Visual Arts - Above satisfactory - Foundation to Year 2
This portfolio of student work shows that the student can analyse and respond to artworks they have made or viewed (WS1, WS2) and experiment with different materials and techniques to create artworks that communicate meaning (WS2).
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Art response: Leaving home - ABOVE
Students engaged in responding to the subject matter and narrative in Aboriginal Nyoongar artist Laurel Nannup’s woodcut print, Leaving home. They were also required to analyse elements such as shape, the artist’s choice to exclude colour, and the technique …
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Class Performance: Under the sea – Above
During the course of a term, students participated in an annual musical theatre production as an integrated unit that developed their skills across Dance, Drama and Music. The theme was ‘under the sea’ and the Year 2 students collaborated with Year 6 …
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Class performance: Jimmie Jean and the Turtles - ABOVE
Students studied the Great Barrier Reef in an integrated unit that involved English, Science and The Arts. They developed their understanding of sustainability and conservation in relation to the reef by artistically exploring the narrative of the stimulus …
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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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Composition: Penguins - ABOVE
Students learning in music builds upon learning from the previous band. Students perform from a musical score that they have graphically notated and composed collaboratively with the ensemble. The task involved students playing instruments and improvising …
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Digital project: The beach - ABOVE
Students collected data about what they found on the beach and presented the data as an information product.
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