The learning program from Reception – Year 6 at Parkside Primary School is based on the Australian Curriculum.
The Australian Curriculum is designed to develop successful learners, confident and creative individuals and active and informed citizens. It is presented as a progression of learning from Foundation – Year 10 that makes clear to teachers, parents, students and others in the wider community what is to be taught and the quality of learning expected of young people as they progress through school.
There are eight learning areas of the Australian Curriculum:
- English;
- Mathematics;
- Science;
- Health and Physical Education;
- Humanities and Social Sciences;
- The Arts;
- Technologies; and
- Languages
In each learning area or subject, content descriptions specify what young people will learn and achievement standards describe the depth of understanding and the sophistication of knowledge and skill expected of students at the end of each year level or band of years in their schooling.
Alongside disciplinary knowledge, the Australian Curriculum provides seven general capabilities:
- Literacy;
- Numeracy;
- Information and Communication Technology Capability;
- Critical and Creative Thinking;
- Personal and Social Capability;
- Ethical Understanding; and
- Intercultural Understanding.
The general capabilities comprise an integrated and interconnected set of knowledge, skills, behaviours and dispositions that apply across subject-based content and equip students to be lifelong learners and be able to operate with confidence in a complex, information-rich, globalised world. In the Australian Curriculum, the general capabilities are developed and applied, where relevant, through the learning areas.
Learn more about the Australian Curriculum at https://australiancurriculum.edu.au/f-10-curriculum/
In each link below, you can find an overview of these learning areas:
- Foundation (Reception) (PDF, 1.6 MB)
- Year 1/2 (PDF, 1.2 MB)
- Year 3/4 (PDF, 1.4 MB)
- Year 5/6 (PDF, 1.4 MB)
GreatStart
Click here to view the GreatStart page on the Department for Education website.
This page on the Department for Education website is for parents of children from birth to age 5. Focused around everyday events, the page provides ideas and activities for parents to engage with their children in early numeracy and literacy development.