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
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Strand
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Domain
|
Dimension
|
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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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