Students learn about the importance of community membership, including how to show respect, listen to, and care for each other, collaborate as a class community, build community connections, actively participate in community activities, and understand their community’s values, rules, and responsibilities.

Students learn about different places and how we can care for and sustain them, where our food comes from and how we can make healthy and sustainable food choices, Earth’s water and the importance of water conservation, and how to protect environments to ensure the sustainability of our precious wildlife. 

Students learn about social justice through the lens of fairness, explore similarities and differences, celebrate multiculturalism, develop empathy, become allies for inclusion, and understand some of the biggest problems facing children around the world to gain perspective. 

Students learn about the properties of materials and how to use them creatively, consider the purpose of everyday objects and the design process undertaken to build them, find new opportunities to be creative in their day-to-day lives and analyse more deeply the things they consume and how they have been produced.

Students explore their identity through their emotions and connections to others, learn skills to become effective self-managers, explore how social, emotional, and physical changes, core values, and stereotypes influence their identity, and consider how the media and role models affect their identity. 

Students learn about different places and how we can care for and sustain them, places in their local community, the diversity of places and what makes them unique, the importance of ‘Place’ to First Nations Australians and different aspects of life in other places, including Asia. 

Students learn about the properties of materials and their different uses, make discoveries as they practise thinking and acting like scientists, test predictions, develop hypotheses to make discoveries and develop their science inquiry skills by investigating answers to scientific questions. 

Students explore how our cultural background and experiences shape our perspective, consider how life has changed and stayed the same through generations, develop inquiry skills through questioning and exploring artefacts, and analyse historical events from various perspectives, including First Nations Australians.