The allocation of time to each learning area and/or subject on the content of the curriculum across a 39-week year and is outlined below.
Prep to Year 6
Learning areas
| No. of hours
| Prep
| Year 1
| Year 2
| Year 3
| Year 4
| Year 5
| Year 6
|
Religion
| Each week
| 2.5
| 2.5
| 2.5 | 2.5
| 2.5
| 2.5 | 2.5 |
Each year
| 97.5
| 97.5
| 97.5 | 97.5 | 97.5 | 97.5 | 97.5 |
English
| Each week
| 7
| 7 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 6
| 6 |
Each year
| 280 | 280 | 280
| 280
| 280 | 240 | 240 |
Mathematics
| Each week
| 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 |
Each year
| 200
| 200 | 200 | 200 | 200 | 200 | 200 |
Science
| Each week
| 30 min
| 30 min
| 30 min
| 1 | 1 | 1.5
| 1.5 |
Each year
| 20
| 20 | 20
| 40
| 40 | 60 | 60 |
Humanities and Social Sciences (HASS)
| Each week
| 30 min
| 30 min
| 30 min
| 1
| 1 | 1.5 | 1.5 |
Each year
| 20
| 20
| 20
| 40 | 40 | 60 | 60 |
Health and Physical Education
| Each week
| 2
| 2 | 2
| 2
|
Each year/band
| 80
| 160 (80 each year)
| 160 (80 each year)
| 160 (80 each year)
|
The Arts *
| Each week
| 1
| 1 | 1.5
| 1.5
|
Each year/band
| 40
| 80 (40 each year)
| 120 (60 each year)
| 120 (60 each year)
|
Technologies
| Each week
| 30 min
| 30 min
| 1
| 1.25
|
Each year/band
| 20
| 40 (20 each year)
| 80 (40 each year)
| 100 (50 each year)
|
Languages **
| Each week
| 30 min
| 1
| 1
| 1.5
|
Each year/band
| 20
| 80 (40 each year)
| 80 (40 each year)
| 120 (650 each year)
|
* Access to Dance, Drama, Media Arts, Music and Visual Arts is to be provided within each band ( p, 1-2, 3-4, 5-6)
** Languages must be provided in at least one semester each year in Year 5 and Year 6; Provision of Languages in Prep to Year 4 is a school-based decision and encouraged.
Years 7 and 8
Subjects in years 7-8 to be studied across both semesters are English, Mathematics, Science, Religious Education, HASS and HPE.
Learning Area
| Year 7 | Year 8
|
Religious Education
|
Hours - per year
| 97.5
| 97.5
|
English
| 120
| 120
|
Mathematics
| 120
| 120 |
Science
| 100
| 100
|
Humanities and Social Sciences
| 120
| 120 |
HASS or all of
| History
| 40
| 40
|
Geography
| 40
| 40
|
Civics and Citizenship
| 20 | 20 |
Economics and Business
| 20 | 20
|
Health and Physical Education
| Hours - per band
| 140
|
To be studied across Years 7-8
- At least one of the Arts subjects, in at least one semester in years 7-8 and
- Digital Technologies in at least one semester in years 7-8 and
- Design Technologies in at least one semester in years 7-8 and
- Languages (when available), in at least one semester across years 7-8
| Learning Area | Year 7
| Year 8
|
The Arts
| Dance
|
Hours - per band |
140
|
| Drama |
Media Arts
|
Music
|
Visual Arts
|
Technologies
| Digital Technologies |
140
|
Design Technologies
|
Languages
| 140
|
The curriculum emphasis and recommended time allocation guide can be used flexibly to suit the local context of schools. For example:
- Schools may elect to provide greater emphasis on specific priority areas than are recommended in the time allocation guide and implements inter-disciplinary approaches that maximise the learning time within other areas
- schools should maintain an awareness of the implications when compressing learning areas and/or subjects into a single term, semester or year and the effective coverage and assessment of the achievement standards
- schools may be required to allocate time flexibility through scheduling of specialist teachers that are used to provide teacher non-contact time
Year 9 and 10
The subjects in years 9-10 to be studied across both semesters are English, Mathematics, Science and Religious Education.
| Learning Area | Year 9
| Year 10
|
Religious Education
|
Hours - per year | 97.5
| 97.5
|
English
| 120
| 120
|
Mathematics
| 120
| 120
|
Science
| 120
| 120
|
| Subjects studied for at least one semester across years 9-10 are History and HPE. Respectful relationships curriculum, including drug and alcohol and consent education must be covered, either in HPE, Pastoral and/or school programs. |
Health and Physical Education
|
Hours - per band
| 140
|
History
| 50
| 45 (from electives)
|
| All students must complete no less than 2 semesters of a HASS subject in years 9 and 10. One semester of History in year 9 and a second semester of a HASSS subject before end of year 10. |
Geography
|
Hours - per band
|
45 (electives)
|
Civics and Citizenship
|
Economics and Business
|
Schools should provide choice for students in all eight learning areas of the Australian Curriculum. Schools make choices about how they will offer electives, but if a subject is offered it should enable the prescribed hours, so students are equipped for success in the senior secondary subjects.
| Learning Area | Year 9
| Year 10
|
The Arts
| Dance |
Hours - per band
|
140 (electives)
|
Drama
|
Media Arts
|
Music
|
Visual Arts
|
Technologies | Digital Technologies
|
140 (electives)
|
Design Technologies
|
| Languages | 140 (electives)
|
The curriculum emphasis and recommended time allocation guide can be used flexibly to suit the local context of schools. For example:
- Schools may elect to provide greater emphasis on specific priority areas than are recommended in the time allocation guide and implement inter-disciplinary approaches that maximise the learning time within other areas
- schools should maintain an awareness of the implications when compressing learning areas and/or subjects into a single term, semester or year and the effective coverage and assessment of the achievement standards
- schools may be required to allocate time flexibly through scheduling of specialist teachers that are used to provide teacher non-contact time