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Curriculum

Curriculum

The Victorian Essential Learning Standards (VELS) documents form the basis of the school's curriculum programs. They provide a whole school curriculum planning framework that sets out learning standards for schools to use to plan their teaching and learning programs, including assessment and reporting of student achievement and progress.

Whilst a wide variety of additional resources, materials and texts are used by teachers, the school's curriculum structure and focus is based on the VELS documents.

At Boroondara Park Primary School our curriculum is designed to meet the VELS standards over a 2 year cycle (click here for our two year plan). Our teaching teams deliver units of work to ensure that each student progresses through our school having developed essential physical, personal and social, discipline-based and interdisciplinary knowledge and skills.

Victorian Essential Learning Standards by Domain

Strand

Domain

Dimension

Physical, Personal and Social Learning

Health and Physical Education

Movement and physical activity
Health knowledge and promotion

Interpersonal Development

Building social relationships
Working in teams

Personal Learning The individual learner
Managing personal learning
Civics and Citizenship Civics knowledge and understanding
Community engagement

Discipline-based Learning

The Arts Creating and making
Exploring and responding
English Reading
Writing
Speaking and listening
The Humanities 
The Humanities -  Economics Economics knowledge and understanding
Economics reasoning and interpretation
The Humanities - Geography Geographical knowledge and understanding
Geospatial skills
The Humanities - History Historical knowledge and understanding
Historical reasoning and interpretation
Languages Other Than English (LOTE)

Communicating in a language other than English
Intercultural knowledge and language awareness

Mathematics Number
Space
Measurement, chance and data
Structure
Working mathematically
Science Science knowledge and understanding
Science at work

Interdisciplinary Learning

Communication Listening, viewing and responding
Presenting
Design, Creativity and Technology

Investigating and designing
Producing
Analysing and evaluating

Information and Communications Technology (ICT) ICT for visualising thinking
ICT for creating
ICT for communicating
Thinking Processes Reasoning, processing and inquiry
Creativity
Reflection, evaluation and metacognition

 

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