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Foundation Level B

English

Mathematics

Dance

Drama

Media Arts

Music

Visual Arts

Health and Physical Education

Critical and Creative Thinking

Personal and Social Capability

By the end of Foundation Level B, students demonstrate the following skills in English.

When interacting with others,...

When listening to and/or viewing...

When co-creating and sharing short...

By the end of Foundation Level B, students identify ‘one’ object and ‘more’ objects, and recognise one or more number names. Students demonstrate an awareness of quantity and use direct comparison to determine ‘more’ and ‘different’ in practical situations, including partitioning and combining collections, sharing collections, and adding to and taking away from collections. 

Students initiate cause-and-effect experiences.

Students identify familiar objects as ‘big’ or ‘little’, using direct comparison in practical situations. They show anticipation...

By the end of Foundation Level B, students engage with arts works they encounter at school, home and in the community.

They participate in the co-creation of arts works that explore ideas and they identify their contribution to the presentation of arts works to others.

Dance

Students engage with the elements of dance to develop personal movement.

Drama

Students engage with the elements of drama and expressive skills to develop characters, situations and/or settings.

Media Arts

By the end of Foundation Level B, students engage with arts works they encounter at school, home and in the community.

They participate in the co-creation of arts works that explore ideas and they identify their contribution to the presentation of arts works to others.

Dance

Students engage with the elements of dance to develop personal movement.

Drama

Students engage with the elements of drama and expressive skills to develop characters, situations and/or settings.

Media Arts

By the end of Foundation Level B, students engage with arts works they encounter at school, home and in the community.

They participate in the co-creation of arts works that explore ideas and they identify their contribution to the presentation of arts works to others.

Dance

Students engage with the elements of dance to develop personal movement.

Drama

Students engage with the elements of drama and expressive skills to develop characters, situations and/or settings.

Media Arts

By the end of Foundation Level B, students engage with arts works they encounter at school, home and in the community.

They participate in the co-creation of arts works that explore ideas and they identify their contribution to the presentation of arts works to others.

Dance

Students engage with the elements of dance to develop personal movement.

Drama

Students engage with the elements of drama and expressive skills to develop characters, situations and/or settings.

Media Arts

By the end of Foundation Level B, students engage with arts works they encounter at school, home and in the community.

They participate in the co-creation of arts works that explore ideas and they identify their contribution to the presentation of arts works to others.

Dance

Students engage with the elements of dance to develop personal movement.

Drama

Students engage with the elements of drama and expressive skills to develop characters, situations and/or settings.

Media Arts

By the end of Foundation Level B, students identify themselves and recognise some familiar people. 

They demonstrate personal and social skills to engage with their peers, maintaining short interactions with support from an adult. 

They communicate a consistent yes/no response to preferred and non-preferred people, objects or actions.

Students demonstrate an awareness of safety by identifying objects and actions that are safe and unsafe in a variety of environments. Students practise familiar routines and actions...

By the end of Foundation Level B, students interact with their environment by using their senses, and they recognise familiar objects and actions and start to associate actions with outcomes. 

Students respond to closed questions in familiar routines and activities. 

They respond to objects and events and they experiment with actions and activities to develop choice-making and problem-solving skills.

By the end of Foundation Level B, students communicate some emotions in response to what is happening in their environment. 

They participate in coregulation activities with familiar adults as a strategy to support their emotional regulation and engagement.

Students make choices and explore trial and error, practising persistence as a way of managing learning challenges. 

They demonstrate an awareness of body autonomy.

They recognise that some actions they take result in praise.

Content descriptions – Foundation Level B
Content descriptions – Foundation Level B
Content descriptions – Foundation Level B
Content descriptions – Foundation Level B
Content descriptions – Foundation Level B
Content descriptions – Foundation Level B
Content descriptions – Foundation Level B
Content descriptions – Foundation Level B
Content descriptions – Foundation Level B
Content descriptions – Foundation Level B