East Para Primary School implements the Australian Curriculum which is presented as a progression of learning from Reception - Year 6.  

 

The Australian Curriculum is designed to help all young Australians to become successful learners, confident and creative individuals, and active and informed citizens. Presented as a developmental sequence of learning from Foundation - Year 10, the Australian Curriculum describes 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.

 

The SA Department for Education has scope and sequences which helps teachers and leaders to plan how they will deliver the Australian Curriculum within a South Australian context. They outline what students are expected to learn within each learning area and how content and concepts progress throughout the years of schooling.

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The Australian Curriculum learning areas are

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• English

• Mathematics

• Science 

• Humanities and Social Sciences

• The Arts

• Technologies

• Health and Physical Education, and

• Languages - Auslan

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General Capabilities: Play a significant role in the Australian Curriculum in equipping young Australians to live and work successfully. 

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In the Australian Curriculum, capability encompasses knowledge, skills, behaviours and dispositions.  Students develop capability when they apply knowledge and skills confidently, effectively and appropriately in complex and changing circumstances, in their learning at school and in their lives outside school.

Cross curriculum priorities

 

The Australian Curriculum is designed to meet the needs of students by delivering a relevant, contemporary and engaging curriculum that builds on the educational goals of the Melbourne Declaration. The Melbourne Declaration identified three key areas that need to be addressed for the benefit of individuals and Australia as a whole. In the Australian Curriculum, these have become priorities that give students the tools and language to engage with and better understand their world at a range of levels. The priorities provide national, regional and global dimensions which will enrich the curriculum through development of considered and focused content that fits naturally within learning areas. They enable the delivery of learning area content at the same time as developing knowledge, understanding and skills relating to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Histories and Cultures, Asia and Australia’s Engagement with Asia and/or Sustainability. Incorporation of the priorities will encourage conversations between students, teachers and the wider community.