The Outline sets out the mandated curriculum, guiding principles for teaching, learning, and assessment for all students from Kindergarten to Year 10 in Western
Western Australia, Australia
The Outline sets out the mandated curriculum, guiding principles for teaching, learning, and assessment for all students from Kindergarten to Year 10 in Western Australia. It is an adaptation of the Australian Curriculum, contextualized to meet the specific needs of Western Australian students and teachers.
The Outline sets out the mandated curriculum, guiding principles for teaching, learning, and assessment for all students from Kindergarten to Year 10 in Western Australia. It is an adaptation of the Australian Curriculum, contextualized to meet the specific needs of Western Australian students and teachers.
Year Adopted: 2014 (Current version undergoing phased update to Version 9 as of 2024-2026)
Kindergarten, Pre-primary, Year 1, Year 2, Year 3, Year 4, Year 5, Year 6, Year 7, Year 8, Year 9, Year 10
Understand that English is one of many languages spoken in Australia and that different languages may be spoken by family, classmates and community.
Key skills: intercultural awareness, language identificationRecognise and name upper- and lower-case letters of the alphabet and know the most common sounds that they represent.
Key skills: letter recognition, phonics, decodingDescribe the effects of ideas, text structures and language features of literary texts on different audiences.
Key skills: text analysis, audience awareness, literary devicesPlan, create and edit imaginative, informative and persuasive texts, demonstrating a consolidating capacity to use punctuation and grammar correctly.
Key skills: writing process, persuasive writing, editingUnderstand how authors use language features, including literary devices, to influence audience response.
Key skills: critical analysis, literary devices, evaluating textsUse interaction skills, including varying conventions of spoken language, to influence an audience.
Key skills: public speaking, oral communication, persuasionAnalyse and evaluate how different perspectives are represented in texts and how these representations shape meaning.
Key skills: perspective analysis, critical evaluation, synthesisSubitise, name and represent small collections of objects and use number names to count collections of up to 20.
Key skills: subitising, counting, representationRecognise, represent and order numbers to at least 10,000 using knowledge of place value.
Key skills: place value, ordering numbers, estimationMeasure, order and compare objects using familiar metric units of length, mass and capacity.
Key skills: metric measurement, comparison, unit selectionSolve problems involving all four operations with whole numbers and describe strategy use.
Key skills: problem solving, mental computation, multi-step operationsExtend and apply the index laws with integer indices to numerical expressions and variables.
Key skills: algebraic manipulation, index laws, simplificationObserve and describe the way objects move and how their movement can be changed.
Key skills: observation, descriptive language, physical scienceCompare the characteristics of living and non-living things and examine the life cycles of animals and plants.
Key skills: classification, life cycles, biological comparisonInvestigate how the relative positions of the sun, Earth and moon cause observable phenomena including day and night, seasons and eclipses.
Key skills: modeling, spatial reasoning, scientific investigationFormulate questions or hypotheses that can be investigated scientifically, including identifying variables to be changed, measured and controlled.
Key skills: hypothesis formulation, variable control, experimental designIdentify the role of local government and how it makes decisions for the community.
Key skills: civic knowledge, community awarenessExamine the causes and effects of Federation in Australia and the development of the Australian Constitution.
Key skills: historical inquiry, cause and effect, political historyAnalyse the interconnections between people and places and the impact of these on the environment and human wellbeing.
Key skills: spatial analysis, sustainability, interconnectionThe Western Australian Curriculum is currently in a phased transition. English and Health and Physical Education (based on Australian Curriculum v9) are available for implementation in 2025. Mathematics, Science, and HASS (v9) are available for implementation in 2026. Schools must follow the SCSA timeline for reporting and assessment. Kindergarten programs are guided by the 'Kindergarten Curriculum Guidelines' which align with the Early Years Learning Framework (EYLF).
Student achievement is assessed using 'Judging Standards' which provide achievement standards and grade descriptors. National assessment includes NAPLAN (Years 3, 5, 7, 9). Secondary students (Years 10-12) participate in the Online Literacy and Numeracy Assessment (OLNA) and work towards the Western Australian Certificate of Education (WACE).
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