Curriculum
Curriculum Information
At Wooragee Primary School, we provide a rich and engaging curriculum that supports every child’s academic, social, and emotional growth.
Our programs align with the Victorian Curriculum 2.0, ensuring students develop essential knowledge and skills across all key learning areas. We also follow the Victorian Teaching and Learning Model 2.0, which underpins our approach to high-quality teaching and learning.
Victorian Curriculum 2.0
The Victorian Curriculum 2.0 sets out what students should learn during their schooling and is designed to prepare them for life in a rapidly changing world. This curriculum integrates essential knowledge, skills, and capabilities across a range of subject areas, ensuring students develop a strong foundation for lifelong learning.
Key Learning Areas
Our curriculum encompasses a broad range of learning areas, including:
- English: Developing literacy skills through reading, writing, speaking, and listening.
- Mathematics: Fostering numerical and problem-solving abilities.
- Science: Encouraging inquiry and understanding of the natural world.
- Humanities: Exploring history, geography, civics, and citizenship.
- The Arts: Promoting creativity through visual and performing arts.
- Health and Physical Education: Emphasising physical well-being and health education.
- Languages: Offering opportunities to learn additional languages.
- Technologies: Integrating digital technologies and design thinking.
Capabilities
In addition to these learning areas, the curriculum emphasises the development of four key capabilities:
- Critical and Creative Thinking: Enhancing problem-solving and innovative thinking.
- Ethical Understanding: Cultivating moral reasoning and integrity.
- Intercultural Understanding: Promoting appreciation of cultural diversity.
- Personal and Social Capability: Building resilience, empathy, and interpersonal skills.
Victorian Teaching and Learning Model 2.0
The VTLM 2.0 emphasises evidence-based insights into how students learn, forming the foundation for effective teaching. It streamlines the previous model's five components into two core elements:
1. Elements of Learning: Focus on the human learning process, informed by cognitive science, neuroscience, and educational psychology.
2. Elements of Teaching: Comprise evidence-based teaching practices that most effectively support learning: Planning, Enabling Learning, Explicit Teaching, and Supported Application.
Elements of Learning
The four Elements of Learning in the VTLM 2.0 are:
- Attention, Focus, and Regulation: Learning requires students' active engagement and focused attention to transfer new information from working memory to long-term memory.
- Knowledge and Memory: Learning occurs when new knowledge moves from working memory to long-term memory, where it integrates with existing mental models.
- Retention and Recall: Introducing new information in manageable chunks and practicing retrieval strengthens long-term memory connections.
- Mastery and Application: Spaced, varied, and repeated practice consolidates learning, supporting the application of knowledge in new contexts.
Elements of Teaching
The four Elements of Teaching in the VTLM 2.0 are:
- Planning: Developing structured lesson plans that align with learning objectives and cater to diverse student needs.
- Enabling Learning: Creating an environment that fosters student engagement, minimises distractions, and promotes a sense of belonging.
- Explicit Teaching: Providing clear, direct instruction, including focused learning, explicit explanation and modelling, scaffolded practice, and progress monitoring.
- Supported Application: Guiding students as they apply new knowledge and skills, offering feedback and opportunities for practice in varied contexts.
By integrating these elements, the VTLM 2.0 ensures a structured and effective approach to teaching and learning, enabling our educators to deliver content that is both accessible and challenging for all students.
At Wooragee Primary School, we are dedicated to fostering an environment where every student can thrive academically, socially, and emotionally. Our adherence to the Victorian Curriculum 2.0 and the Victorian Teaching and Learning Model 2.0 reflects our commitment to excellence in education.
Please visit the Victorian Department of Education's official website for more detailed information about the Victorian Curriculum 2.0 and VTLM 2.0.
Our teachers use a differentiated approach to ensure that learning is tailored to meet the needs of all students, providing support and challenge where needed.
High Impact Teaching Strategies (HITS)
Our teachers use research-based strategies proven to enhance student learning, such as:
The design of the Victorian Curriculum F–10 is set out below:
- Setting clear learning goals
- Providing explicit instruction
- Using questioning techniques to promote deeper thinking
- Encouraging collaborative learning
- Giving timely feedback to support student growth
At Wooragee Primary School, this model ensures that every lesson is purposeful, engaging, and effective, helping students achieve their personal best.
Our Commitment to Student Growth
Through the Victorian Curriculum 2.0 and the Victorian Teaching and Learning Model 2.0, we provide students with a balanced, challenging, and supportive education. Our approach:
- Ensures students master foundational skills in literacy and numeracy.
- Encourages critical thinking, creativity, and problem-solving.
- Fosters social and emotional development to support student well-being.
- Prepares students for future education and life beyond school.
We are committed to working in partnership with families to support student success. If you would like more information about our curriculum or how we support your child’s learning, please don’t hesitate to contact us.
More information regarding the Victorian Curriculum can be found at www.victoriancurriculum.vcaa.vic.edu.au.