Foundation Year HASS
My personal world The Foundation curriculum focuses on developing students’ understanding of their personal worlds, including their personal and family histories and the places they and their families live in and belong to. The emphasis is on the student’s …
Foundation Year | HASS | Humanities and Social Sciences | F-10 curriculum
Year 1 HASS
How my world is different from the past and can change in the future The Year 1 curriculum provides a study of the recent past, the present and the near future within the context of the student’s own world. Students are given opportunities to explore …
Year 1 | HASS | Humanities and Social Sciences | F-10 curriculum
Year 7 History
The ancient world The Year 7 curriculum provides a study of history from the time of the earliest human communities to the end of the ancient period, approximately 60 000 BC (BCE) – c.650 AD (CE). It was a period defined by the development of cultural …
Year 7 | History | Humanities and Social Sciences | F-10 curriculum
Year 8 History
The ancient to the modern world The Year 8 curriculum provides a study of history from the end of the ancient period to the beginning of the modern period, c.650– 1750 AD (CE). This was when major civilisations around the world came into contact with …
Year 8 | History | Humanities and Social Sciences | F-10 curriculum
Year 10 History
The modern world and Australia The Year 10 curriculum provides a study of the history of the modern world and Australia from 1918 to the present, with an emphasis on Australia in its global context. The twentieth century became a critical period in Australia’s …
Year 10 | History | Humanities and Social Sciences | F-10 curriculum
Year 8 Geography
There are two units of study in the Year 8 curriculum for Geography: ‘Landforms and landscapes’ and ‘Changing nations’. ‘Landforms and landscapes’ focuses on investigating geomorphology through a study of landscapes and their landforms. This unit examines …
Year 8 | Geography | Humanities and Social Sciences | F-10 curriculum
Year 7 Economics and Business
The Year 7 curriculum gives students the opportunity to further develop their understanding of economics and business concepts by exploring what it means to be a consumer, a worker and a producer in the market, and the relationships between these groups. …
Year 7 | Economics and Business | Humanities and Social Sciences | F-10 curriculum
Year 8 Economics and Business
The Year 8 curriculum gives students the opportunity to further develop their understanding of economics and business concepts by exploring the ways markets – including traditional Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander markets – work within Australia, …
Year 8 | Economics and Business | Humanities and Social Sciences | F-10 curriculum
Years 9 and 10 Media Arts
In Media Arts, students: refine and extend their understanding and use of structure, intent, character, settings, points of view, genre conventions and media conventions in their compositions extend the use of time, space, sound, movement and lighting …
Years 9 and 10 | Media Arts | The Arts | F-10 curriculum
Years 3 and 4 Design and Technologies
Learning in Design and Technologies builds on concepts, skills and processes developed in earlier years, and teachers will revisit, strengthen and extend these as needed. By the end of Year 4 students will have had the opportunity to create designed …
Years 3 and 4 | Design and Technologies | Technologies | 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 Science Year 7
By the end of Year 7, students describe techniques to separate pure substances from mixtures. They represent and predict the effects of unbalanced forces, including Earth’s gravity, on motion. They explain how the relative positions of Earth, the …
Achievement Standard | Achievement Standards | Year 7 | Science | F-10 curriculum
Year 2 HASS
Our past and present connections to people and places The Year 2 curriculum extends contexts for study beyond the personal to the community and to near and distant places that students are familiar with or aware of, exploring connections between the …
Year 2 | HASS | Humanities and Social Sciences | F-10 curriculum
Year 3 HASS
Diverse communities and places and the contribution people make The Year 3 curriculum focuses on the diversity of people and places in their local community and beyond, and how people participate in their communities. Students study how places are represented …
Year 3 | HASS | Humanities and Social Sciences | F-10 curriculum
Year 4 HASS
How people, places and environments interact, past and present The Year 4 curriculum focuses on interactions between people, places and environments over time and space and the effects of these interactions. Students gain opportunities to expand their …
Year 4 | HASS | Humanities and Social Sciences | F-10 curriculum
Year 5 HASS
Australian communities – their past, present and possible futures The Year 5 curriculum focuses on colonial Australia in the 1800s and the social, economic, political and environmental causes and effects of Australia’s development, and on the relationship …
Year 5 | HASS | Humanities and Social Sciences | F-10 curriculum
Year 6 HASS
Australia in the past and present and its connections with a diverse world The Year 6 curriculum focuses on the social, economic and political development of Australia as a nation, particularly after 1900, and Australia’s role within a diverse and interconnected …
Year 6 | HASS | Humanities and Social Sciences | F-10 curriculum
Year 7 HASS
Sustainable pasts, present, futures The Year 7 curriculum deepens discipline-specific knowledge, understandings and skills with opportunities for integration across the sub-strands. Students study ancient societies of the East and West, how they are …
Year 7 | HASS | Humanities and Social Sciences | F-10 curriculum
Years 3 and 4 Indonesian
The nature of the learners At this level, children are developing awareness of their social world and memberships of various groups, including of the Indonesian class. They have developed initial literacy in English, and this assists to some degree in …
Years 3 and 4 | Years F–10 Sequence | Indonesian | Languages | F-10 curriculum
Achievement Standard Economics and Business Year 8
By the end of Year 8, students explain how markets operate and recognise why governments may influence the market’s operation. They explain the rights and responsibilities of consumers and businesses in terms of financial and economic decision-making. …
Achievement Standard | Achievement Standards | Year 8 | Economics and Business | Humanities and Social Sciences | F-10 curriculum