Australian Curriculum Overview
English
In the Foundation year, students communicate with peers, teachers, known adults, and students from other classes. Students engage with a variety of texts for enjoyment. They listen to, read and view spoken, written and multimodal texts in which the primary purpose is to entertain, as well as some texts designed to inform. These include traditional oral texts, picture books, various types of stories, rhyming verse, poetry, non-fiction, film, multimodal texts and dramatic performances. They participate in shared reading, viewing and storytelling using a range of literary texts, and recognise the entertaining nature of literature.
Mathematics
Understanding includes connecting names, numerals and quantities. Fluency includes readily counting numbers in sequences, continuing patterns, and comparing the lengths of objects Problem Solving includes using materials to model authentic problems, sorting objects, using familiar counting sequences to solve unfamiliar problems, and discussing the reasonableness of the answer. Reasoning includes explaining comparisons of quantities, creating patterns, and explaining processes for indirect comparison of length.
Science
In Foundation, students observe and describe the behaviours and properties of everyday objects, materials and living things. They explore change in the world around them, including changes that impact on them, such as the weather, and changes they can effect, such as making things move or change shape. They learn that seeking answers to questions and making observations is a core part of science and use their senses to gather different types of information.
HASS
The Foundation curriculum provides a study of personal and family histories. Students learn about their own history and that of their family; this may include stories from different cultures and other parts of the world. As participants in their own history, students build on their knowledge and understanding of how the past is different from the present.
Health and Physical Education
The Foundation Year curriculum provides the basis for developing knowledge, understanding and skills for students to lead healthy, safe and active lives. Students develop and practise fundamental movement skills through active play and structured movement activities.
Technologies (Digital)
In Foundation to Year 2, students will explore and investigate technologies − materials, systems, components, tools and equipment − including their purpose and how they meet personal and social needs within local settings. They will develop an understanding of how society and environmental sustainability factors influence design and technologies decisions. Students will evaluate designed solutions and consider their impact of decisions and technologies on others and the environment. They will learn about common digital systems and patterns that exist within data they collect. Students will organise, manipulate and present data in creative ways to create meaning
Music
In Foundation to Year 2, students learning Music listen, perform and compose. They learn about the elements of music comprising rhythm, pitch, dynamics and expression, form and structure, timbre and texture. Aural skills, or ear training, are the listening skills students develop to identify and interpret the elements of music. Music involves active listening, imitating, improvising, composing, arranging, conducting, singing, playing, comparing and contrasting, refining, interpreting, recording and notating, practising, rehearsing, presenting and performing.
Dance
In Foundation to Year 2, Students are engaged through purposeful and creative play in structured activities, fostering a strong sense of wellbeing and developing their connection with and contribution to the world. In Dance, students become aware of their bodies and learn about the body bases, parts and zones used in dance.
Students explore space, time, dynamics and relationships as they make and observe dances. They explore locomotor and non-locomotor movements and use these fundamental movements skills in their own dance.
Media Arts
In Foundation to Year 2, Students are engaged through purposeful and creative play in structured activities, fostering a strong sense of wellbeing and developing their connection with and contribution to the world. In media arts students become aware of structure, intent, character and settings in ideas and stories. They explore ideas and learn about composition, sound and technoligies to construct stories. Students learn how their ideas can be communicated through selecting and organising the elemts of media arts.