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
|