Curriculum

At Eden Hills Primary School the Australian Curriculum is taught for our reception to year 6 students.

Teachers use curriculum to:

• plan student learning
• monitor and assess student progress
• report student progress to parents
• support student wellbeing.

The curriculum learning areas at Eden Hills Primary are:

• English
• mathematics
• science
• humanities and social sciences – history, geography, economics and business, civics and citizenship
• the arts – dance, drama, music, media arts, visual arts
• technologies – design and technologies, digital technologies
• health and physical education
• languages Japanese

There are 7 general capabilities that describe the knowledge, skills, behaviours and dispositions that children and young people need to live, learn and work successfully in a changing world.

• Critical and creative thinking
• Literacy
• Numeracy
• Information and communication technology capability
• Personal and social capability
• Ethical understanding
• Intercultural understanding

There are 3 cross-curriculum priorities that provide global, national and regional dimensions to develop students’ knowledge, understanding and skills relating to:

• Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Histories and Cultures
• Asia and Australia’s Engagement with Asia
• Sustainability.

Keeping Safe: child protection curriculum

The Keeping Safe: child protection curriculum is required for all children and young people and is taught at Eden Hills Primary School.