Year 8 English
The English curriculum is built around the three interrelated strands of language, literature and literacy. Teaching and learning programs should balance and integrate all three strands. Together, the strands focus on developing students’ knowledge, understanding …
Year 8 | English | F-10 curriculum
Year 8 Science
The science inquiry skills and science as a human endeavour strands are described across a two-year band. In their planning, schools and teachers refer to the expectations outlined in the achievement standard and also to the content of the science understanding …
Year 8 | Science | F-10 curriculum
Year 8 Civics and Citizenship
The Year 8 curriculum provides a study of the responsibilities and freedoms of citizens and how Australians can actively participate in their democracy. Students consider how laws are made and the types of laws used in Australia. Students also examine …
Year 8 | Civics and Citizenship | 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 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 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 7 and 8 Health and Physical Education
The Year 7 and 8 curriculum expands students’ knowledge, understanding and skills to help them achieve successful outcomes in classroom, leisure, social, movement and online situations. Students learn how to take positive action to enhance their own and …
Years 7 and 8 | Health and Physical Education | F-10 curriculum
Years 7 and 8 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 8 students will have had the opportunity to create designed …
Years 7 and 8 | Design and Technologies | Technologies | F-10 curriculum
Years 7 and 8 Digital Technologies
Learning in Digital Technologies focuses on further developing understanding and skills in computational thinking such as decomposing problems and prototyping; and engaging students with a wider range of information systems as they broaden their experiences …
Years 7 and 8 | Digital Technologies | Technologies | F-10 curriculum
Years 7 and 8 Auslan
The nature of the learners The transition to secondary schooling involves social and academic demands that coincide with a period of maturational and physical change. Learners are adjusting to a new school culture with sharper divisions between curriculum …
Years 7 and 8 | Years 7–10 (Year 7 Entry) Sequence | First Language Learner Pathway | Auslan | Languages | F-10 curriculum
Years 7 and 8 Auslan
The nature of the learners Learners are beginning their study of Auslan and typically have had little prior exposure to the language or to the Deaf community. 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 | Second Language Learner Pathway | Auslan | Languages | F-10 curriculum
Year 8 Mathematics
The proficiency strands understanding, fluency, problem-solving and reasoning are an integral part of mathematics content across the three content strands: number and algebra, measurement and geometry, and statistics and probability. The proficiencies …
Year 8 | Mathematics | F-10 curriculum
Years 7 and 8 Dance
In Dance, students: make and respond to dance independently and with their classmates, teachers and communities explore dance as an art form through choreography, performance and appreciation build on their awareness of the body through body part …
Years 7 and 8 | Dance | The Arts | F-10 curriculum
Years 7 and 8 Drama
In Drama, students: build on their understanding of role, character and relationships use voice and movement to sustain character and situation use focus, tension, space and time to enhance drama incorporate language and ideas and use devices such …
Years 7 and 8 | Drama | The Arts | F-10 curriculum
Years 7 and 8 Media Arts
In Media Arts, students: build on their understanding of structure, intent, character, settings, points of view and genre conventions and explore media conventions in their media artworks build on their understanding and use of time, space, sound, …
Years 7 and 8 | Media Arts | The Arts | F-10 curriculum
Years 7 and 8 Music
In Music, students: build on their aural skills by identifying and manipulating rhythm, pitch, dynamics and expression, form and structure, timbre and texture in their listening, composing and performing aurally identify layers within a texture sing …
Years 7 and 8 | Music | The Arts | F-10 curriculum
Years 7 and 8 Visual Arts
In Visual Arts, students: build on their awareness of how and why artists, craftspeople and designers realise their ideas through different visual representations, practices, processes and viewpoints extend their thinking, understanding and use of …
Years 7 and 8 | Visual Arts | The Arts | F-10 curriculum
Years 7 and 8 Arabic
The nature of the learners These years represent a transition to secondary school. Students in this sequence are continuing to study Arabic, bringing with them an established capability to interact in different situations, …
Years 7 and 8 | Years F–10 Sequence | Arabic | Languages | F-10 curriculum
Years 7 and 8 Arabic
The nature of the learners Students who enter the background language learner pathway in Arabic in Year 7 may have strong connections to Arabic language and culture through family and community and varying degrees of oracy in Arabic. Their textual knowledge …
Years 7 and 8 | Years 7–10 (Year 7 Entry) Sequence | Arabic | Languages | F-10 curriculum
Years 7 and 8 French
The nature of the learners These years represent a transition to secondary school. Students in this pathway are continuing to study French, bringing with them an established capability to interact in different situations, …
Years 7 and 8 | Years F–10 Sequence | French | Languages | F-10 curriculum