Key Learning Areas

The curriculum in the Early Childhood and Junior School is made up of nine key learning areas. These include:

• English
  • reading
  • writing
  • oral language
• Mathematics
  • number
  • space
  • measurement
• Science
• Technology
• Studies of Society and the Environment
• Physical Education, Health and Personal Development
• The Arts
  • music
  • visual arts
  • drama
  • dance
  • media
• Religious Education
• Language Other Than English - Indonesian

Each curriculum area is divided into stages: Early Stage 1, Stage 1, Stage 2 and Stage 3. Within these stages there are a number of outcomes that each child should achieve at the completion of the relevant stage.

As a rough guide the children in:

• Kindergarten will be working towards the outcomes contained in Early Stage 1;
• Years 1 and 2 the outcomes in Stage 1;
• Years 3 to 4 the outcomes in Stage 2; and
• children in Year 5 the outcomes in Stage 3.

The curriculum in the Middle School is made up of four key-learning areas, or curriculum organisers.

These four areas are:

1.      Life pathways and social futures

2.      Multiliteracies and communications media

3.      Active Citizenship

4.      Environments and Technologies

Each of the four New Basics categories has an explicit orientation towards researching, understanding, and coming to grips with the new economic, cultural and social conditions.