What is taught?

At Parkhill, we teach according to the Victorian Essential Learning Standards (VELS) . They are arranged in three strands, with domains and dimensions branching from that. They are as follows:

Strand	Domain	Dimension
Physical, Personal and Social Learning	Health and Physical Education	Movement and physical activity Health knowledge and promotion
	Interpersonal Development	Building social relationships Working in teams
	Personal Learning	The individual learner Managing personal learning
	Civics and Citizenship	Civics knowledge and understanding Community engagement
Discipline-based Learning	The Arts	Creating and making Exploring and responding
	English	Reading Writing Speaking and Listening
	The Humanities
	The Humanities - Economics	Economics knowledge and understanding Economics reasoning and interpretation
	The Humanities - Geography	Geographical knowledge and understanding Geospatial skills
	The Humanities - History	Historical knowledge and understanding Historical reasoning and interpretation
	Languages Other Than English (LOTE)	Communicating in a language other than English Intercultural knowledge and language awareness
	Mathematics	Number Space Measurement Chance and Data Structure Working mathematically
	Science	Science knowledge and understanding Science at work
Interdisciplinary Learning	Communication	Listening Viewing and Responding Presenting
	Design, Creativity and Technology	Investigating and designing Producing Analysing and evaluating
	Information and Communications Technology (ICT)	ICT for visualising thinking ICT for creating ICT for communicating
	Thinking Processes	Reasoning Processing and inquiry Creativity Reflection Evaluation and metacognition