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Key Learning Areas

     

 

The primary curriculum is organized into six Key Learning Areas (KLA’s) to ensure that all students have access to a well-balanced curriculum.  Each Key Learning Area deals with the knowledge, skills and understandings that are relevant and appropriate for primary students.

The six Key Learning Areas are:

  • English;
  • Mathematics;
  • Science and Technology;
  • Personal Development, Health and Physical Education;
  • Human Society and Its Environment and
  • Creative Arts.

ENGLISH

English is the Key Learning Area where students develop knowledge, skills and understandings about English language and literature.

The English syllabus is organized into three strands:

            
  • Reading
  • Writing
  • Talking and Listening.

MATHEMATICS

Mathematics is essential for living and is required by individuals in order to function adequately as members of society.

Mathematics K – 6 is structured so that students will:

  • appreciate mathematics as an essential and relevant part of life;
  • develop their knowledge, skills and understandings in three content strands:
  • develop their ability to work mathematically.
  • Number
  • Space and Geometry
  • Measurement and Data
  • Patterns and Algebra

Working Mathematically is the process strand.  The outcomes in this area relate to the important skills that are expected to be achieved by student while undertaking learning experiences in the three content strands.

These skills are:       Questioning

                               Problem Solving

                               Communicating

                               Verifying

                               Reflecting

                               Using

HUMAN SOCIETY AND ITS ENVIRONMENT

By studying Human Society and Its Environment students will develop values and attitudes, skills and knowledge and understandings that:

  • enhance their sense of personal, community, national and global identity;
  • enable them to participate effectively in maintaining and improving the quality of their society and environment;

Knowledge and understandings will be gained from the study of four content strands

  • Change and Continuity
  • Cultures
  • Environments
  • Social systems and structures

By studying change and continuity, students should develop historical knowledge and understandings about their heritages and the past, and how these have influenced the present and may influence the future.

By studying cultures, students should develop knowledge and understandings about cultures in Australia and other places, their diversity and similarities and how they influence people’s identities and behaviours.

By studying environments, students should develop knowledge and understandings about places, and about how people interact with their environments and make decisions that support ecological sustainability.

By studying social systems and structures, students should develop knowledge and understandings about social groups and economic, political and legal systems to understand roles, rights and responsibilities of participation within those social groups, systems and structures.

Through the Learning experience in these content strands students will develop skills in:

  • acquiring information;
  • using an enquiry process and
  • social and civic participation.

Students should be able to take active, responsible and informed roles as citizens in a rapidly changing and diverse global society.

By identifying, clarifying, analyzing and evaluating their values and attitudes as well as those of others about issues and events, students should develop informed and responsible attitudes towards people, cultures, religions, societies, environments and learning.

This will enable them to contribute to intercultural understanding and the development of a democratic and socially just society in a sustainable environment.

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Dramatic and rapid change in science and technology is a basic fact of life for all students. For personal, social, environmental and economic reasons, young people must be well equipped to be active participants in our scientific and technological society.

Science and Technology K – 6 provides learning experiences in the areas

of science and technology that will assist in meeting the needs and interests

of both students and the wider community.

 The syllabus requires that students learn about and engage in:

  • the process of investigation
  • the process of design and making
  • the use of technology

As students engage in these processes they will develop knowledge about science and technology in relation to six constant strands:

  • Built Environments, in which students learn about the structures and spaces that people construct, modify and adapt.
  • Information and Communication, in which students learn about communication technology and the ways people make, store, organise and transfer images and information.
  • Living Things, in which students learn about people, other animals and plants.
  • Physical Phenomena, in which students learn about phenomena related to energy, space and time.
  • Products and Services, in which students learn about goods and commodities, and the systems used to produce and distribute them.
  • The Earth and Its Surroundings, in which students learn about the Earth and its environment, and how people use the resources it provides.

PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT, HEALTH & PHYSICAL EDUCATION (PD,H&PE)

The aim of this syllabus is to develop in each student the knowledge and understanding, skills and values and attitudes needed to lead healthy, active and fulfilling lives.

Learning experiences are provided in relation to eight strands:

  • Active Lifestyle
  • Dance
  • Games and Sports
  • Growth and Development
  • Gymnastics
  • Interpersonal Relationships
  • Personal Health Choices
  • Safe Living

 

 

 

 

While studying these strands students will develop five essential skills:

  • Communicating
  • Decision Making
  • Interacting
  • Moving
  • Problem Solving

CREATIVE AND PRACTICAL ARTS

In this Key Learning Area students engage in learning experiences in four subjects:

  • Visual Arts
  • Music
  • Drama
  • Dance 

In Visual Arts, students will develop knowledge, skills and understandings:

  • in making artworks informed by their investigations of the world as subject matter,
  • use of expressive forms
  • consideration of the audience for their work

       

In Music, students will develop knowledge, skills and understandings:

  • in performing music of different styles and from different times and cultures
  • singing, playing and moving using musical concept

InDrama, students will develop knowledge, skills and understandings:

  • in making drama collaboratively by taking on roles and creating imagined situations shaped by the elements of drama
  • in performing drama by actively engaging in drama forms
  • in appreciating their own dramatic works and those of others

In Dance, students will develop knowledge, skills and understandings:

  • in composing their own dances using the elements and contexts of dance;
  • in performing their own dances and the dances of others from different times and cultures using the elements and contexts of dance;
  • in appreciating their own dances  and those of others.
 

 

 



 
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