Prep – Year 6 teaching and learning at Emerald State 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 students 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;
- Digital Literacy;
- 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.
Queensland State Schools are currently following the staged implementation of the Version 9 Australian Curriculum. This will be fully implemented by the end of 2027.
Learn more about the Australian Curriculum at https://v9.australiancurriculum.edu.au
Emerald State School's plans for implementing (teaching, assessing and reporting) all eight Australian Curriculum learning areas in Prep to Year 6 are detailed using the three levels of planning detailed through the Whole School Curriculum Framework.