curriculum

GRADE CURRICULUM OVERVIEW - CORE UNITS

The school is divided into stages. Most children fit into the following stages:

The students cover different units in even years and odd years.

	Click here to see the EVEN year units.			Click here to see the ODD year units.

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On even years (2004, 2006, 2008 etc) students will study the following units.

Stage	Science Units	H.S.I.E. Units
Kindergarten	Look Around You	This Is Me
	What's For Lunch	Schools Days
	Hot and Cold	Places We Know
	Toy World	Meeting Needs
1	Kid's Care	The Need For Shelter
	A Place In Time	Where the Sun Rises (Japan)
	Sense of Direction	The Way We Were
	Back To Nature	Transport
2	Material World	Rules and Laws
	Our Australia	Australia You're Standing In It
	Out and About	People and Their Beliefs
	Sounds Great
	A Look Inside
	Moving Pictures
	Eating Out
3	Environment Matters	Global Environments
	Food for the Tuckerbox	State and Federal Government
	Switched On	Gold
	The Best Place to Live
	A Change for the Better
	Sinking Sailing Soaring

Units written in Italics are OPTIONAL for that year.

On odd years (2005, 2007, 2009 etc) students will study the following units.

Stage	Science Units	H.S.I.E. Units
Kindergarten	Look Around You	This Is Me
	What's For Lunch	School Days
	Hot and Cold	Places We Know
	Toy World	Meeting Needs
1	Growing Up	Workers in the Community
	Getting About	Families - Past and Present
	What's Alive
	Picture It
2	Mini Worlds	Places - Then, Now, Tomorrow
	Indoors, Outdoors	Co-operating Communities
	Stuck on You	British Colonisation
	Keep In Touch
	Making It Easy
	Cycles in Our World
3	Way Out Communication	Study of a Cultural Group e.g. Bali
	Out In Space	Global Connections
	What's The Weather	Australian Democracy
	On The Move
	An Ancient Land
	Visual Ventures

Units written in Italics are OPTIONAL for that year.