This page contains past curriculum documents. For current curriculum resources, visit the P–10 Australian Curriculum section.
The following resources support teachers in planning for using the Essential Learnings and Standards.
Planning across all key learning areas
- Years 3-7 Knowledge and understanding: Conceptual statements (PDF, 206 kB)
- Year 9 Knowledge and understanding: Conceptual statements (PDF, 198 kB)
- Year 3–7 Ways of working (PDF, 212 kB)
- Year 9 Ways of working (PDF, 239 kB)
- Assessable elements: All KLAs (PDF, 124 kB)
- Years 3-9 Supporting the implementation of Essential Learnings: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander perspectives resource (PDF, 156 kB)(DOCX, 251 kB)
Curriculum and assessment planning models
These three models provide different ways of recording and planning curriculum and assessment across a juncture. Examples show how the models could be used in various year levels.
Model A
Example of model use in a Years 1-3 setting
- Curriculum and assessment overview example Years 1-3 (PDF, 238 kB)
- Example unit plan 2: Visual Art - Faces in clay (PDF, 156 kB)
Model B
Example of model use in a Years 4-5 setting
Model C
Example of model use in a Years 6-7 setting
- Curriculum and assessment overview example Years 6-7 (PDF, 163 kB)
- Example unit plan: Great Barrier Reef (PDF, 138 kB)
Curriculum planning and auditing templates
These templates can help your planning and auditing of curriculum and assessment, using the Essential Learnings.
Primary (Years 1–7)
- Year 3 juncture (full version) (DOCX, 551 kB)
- Year 3 juncture (abridged version – conceptual statements) (DOCX, 500 kB)
- Year 5 juncture (full version) (DOCX, 557 kB)
- Year 5 juncture (abridged version – conceptual statements) (DOCX, 504 kB)
- Year 7 juncture (full version) (DOCX, 559 kB)
- Year 7 juncture (abridged version – conceptual statements) (DOCX, 506 kB)
- Languages: Beginner (DOCX, 420 kB)
- Languages: Elementary stage (DOCX, 420 kB)
- Languages: Lower Intermediate (DOCX, 421 kB)
Lower secondary (Years 8–9)
- Work plan: Health & Physical Education (HPE) (DOCX, 73 kB)
- Work plan: Languages (DOCX, 93 kB)
- Work plan: Studies of Society & Environment (SOSE) (DOCX, 78 kB)
- Work plan: Technology (DOCX, 72 kB)
- Work plan: The Arts (DOCX, 76 kB)
Unit planning
- Handout 3: Unit planning checklist (DOCX, 27 kB)
- Unit planner: Annotated sample (PDF, 77 kB)
- Handout 2: Unit planner: Blank template for teachers (DOCX, 300 kB)