Structure
The Australian Curriculum: The Arts covers each of the five arts subjects – Dance, Drama, Media Arts, Music, and Visual Arts – across bands of year levels: Foundation to Year 2 Years 3 and 4 Years 5 and 6 Years 7 and 8 Years 9 and 10. The curriculum …
Structure | The Arts | F-10 curriculum
Mathematics - Year 1
Number and place value Represent and solve simple addition and subtraction problems using a range of strategies including counting on, partitioning and rearranging parts (ACMNA015) Data representation and interpretation Represent data with objects …
Mathematics - Year 1 | Competencies and skills | Dimensions | Curriculum connections | Resources
Mathematics - Year 9
Chance Investigate reports of surveys in digital media and elsewhere for information on how data were obtained to estimate population means and medians (ACMSP227) Data representation and interpretation Identify everyday questions and issues involving …
Mathematics - Year 9 | Responsibility and enterprise | Dimensions | Curriculum connections | Resources
Foundation to Year 2 Chinese
The nature of the learners Students will have some exposure to Chinese language and culture in the context of their family and community life. They are likely to have high oracy skills but low literacy skills in Chinese. In the school environment they …
Foundation to Year 2 | Years F–10 Sequence | Background Language Learner Pathway | Chinese | Languages | F-10 curriculum
Years 7 and 8 Chinese
The nature of the learners Students understand the ways in which they use more than one language in their daily lives. They understand the differences between the Chinese and English oral and written language systems and begin to extend their knowledge …
Years 7 and 8 | Years 7–10 (Year 7 Entry) Sequence | Background Language Learner Pathway | Chinese | Languages | F-10 curriculum
Key ideas Science
In the Australian Curriculum: Science, there are six key ideas that represent key aspects of a scientific view of the world and bridge knowledge and understanding across the disciplines of science, as shown Figure 1 below. These are embedded within each …
Key ideas | Science | F-10 curriculum
Structure
Learner background and time-on-task are two major variables that influence language learning and they provide the basis for the structure of the Australian Curriculum: Languages. These variables are addressed through the specification of content and the …
Structure | Languages | F-10 curriculum
Critical and Creative Thinking - Years 1 and 2
Reflecting on thinking and processes connect information from one setting to another use information from a previous experience to inform a new idea
Critical and Creative Thinking - Years 1 and 2 | Conservation and sustainability | Dimensions | Curriculum connections | Resources
Years 7 and 8 German
The nature of the learners Students are beginning their study of German and typically have had little prior exposure to the language and associated cultures. Many will have learnt an additional language in primary school, and some have proficiency in …
Years 7 and 8 | Years 7–10 (Year 7 Entry) Sequence | German | Languages | F-10 curriculum
Years 3 and 4 Hindi
The nature of learners At this stage, children are developing cognitive and social capabilities that allow for increased control of their own learning. They are able to conceptualise and reason, and have better memory and focus. This is a stage of social …
Years 3 and 4 | Years F–10 Sequence | Hindi | Languages | F-10 curriculum
Years 7 and 8 Japanese
The nature of the learners Students are beginning their study of Japanese and typically have had little prior exposure to the language and associated culture. Many will have learnt an additional language in primary school, while some have proficiency …
Years 7 and 8 | Years 7–10 (Year 7 Entry) Sequence | Japanese | Languages | F-10 curriculum
Foundation to Year 2 Korean
The nature of the learners Children enter the early years of schooling with established oracy skills in one or more languages and varying degrees of early literacy capability. For young students, learning typically focuses on their immediate world of …
Foundation to Year 2 | Years F–10 Sequence | Korean | Languages | F-10 curriculum
Years 7 and 8 Spanish
The nature of the learners Students are beginning their study of Spanish and typically have had little prior exposure to the language and associated cultures of the Spanish-speaking world. Many will have learnt an additional language in primary school, …
Years 7 and 8 | Years 7–10 (Year 7 Entry) Sequence | Spanish | Languages | F-10 curriculum
Foundation to Year 2 Turkish
The nature of the learners Children in this pathway enter the early years of schooling with established oracy skills in Turkish, English and sometimes other languages or dialects. There will be variation in terms of proficiency in Turkish depending on …
Foundation to Year 2 | Years F–10 Sequence | Turkish | Languages | F-10 curriculum
Achievement Standard English Foundation Year
Receptive modes (listening, reading and viewing) By the end of the Foundation year, students use predicting and questioning strategies to make meaning from texts. They recall one or two events from texts with familiar topics. They understand that there …
Achievement Standard | Achievement Standard | Foundation Year | English | F-10 curriculum
Achievement Standard English Year 2
Receptive modes (listening, reading and viewing) By the end of Year 2, students understand how similar texts share characteristics by identifying text structures and language features used to describe characters and events, or to communicate factual …
Achievement Standard | Achievement Standards | Year 2 | English | F-10 curriculum
Achievement Standard Mathematics Year 6
By the end of Year 6, students recognise the properties of prime, composite, square and triangular numbers. They describe the use of integers in everyday contexts. They solve problems involving all four operations with whole numbers. Students connect …
Achievement Standard | Achievement Standards | Year 6 | Mathematics | F-10 curriculum
Achievement Standard Mathematics Year 7
By the end of Year 7, students solve problems involving the comparison, addition and subtraction of integers. They make the connections between whole numbers and index notation and the relationship between perfect squares and square roots. They solve …
Achievement Standard | Achievement Standards | Year 7 | Mathematics | F-10 curriculum
Student diversity
ACARA is committed to the development of a high-quality curriculum that promotes excellence and equity in education for all Australian students. All students are entitled to rigorous, relevant and engaging learning programs drawn from the Australian Curriculum: …
Student diversity | Languages | F-10 curriculum
Senior secondary English subjects
The senior secondary Australian Curriculum for English is presented in four subjects that share common features. These include the continuing development of students’ knowledge, understanding and skills in listening, speaking, reading, viewing and writing. …
Senior secondary English subjects | English | Senior secondary curriculum