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Early Stage 1

English Talking and Listening TES1.1 Communicates with peers and known adults in informal situations and structured activities dealing briefly with familiar topics.
TES1.2 Demonstrates basic skills of classroom and group interaction, makes brief oral
presentations and listens with reasonable attentiveness.
TES1.3 Recognises that there are different kinds of spoken texts and shows emerging
awareness of school purposes and expectations for using spoken language.
TES1.4 With teacher guidance, identifies some basic language features of familiar spoken texts.

reading RES1.5 Demonstrates developing reading skills to read short, predictable written texts on familiar topics.
RES1.6 Demonstrates developing reading skills and strategies when reading books, dealing with print and comprehending texts.
RES1.7 Demonstrates an emerging awareness that written and visual texts convey meaning and recognises that there are different kinds of texts that serve different purposes.
RES1.8 Identifies some basic language structures and features of texts.

writing WES1.9 Engages in writing texts with the intention of conveying an idea or message.
WES1.10 Produces simple texts that show the emergence of the grammar and punctuation
needed to achieve the purpose of the text.
 WES1.11 Begins to use letters to represent known words when spelling.
WES1.12 Produces most lower-case and upper-case letters and uses computer technology to begin to construct texts.
 WES1.13 Recognises some different purposes for writing and that own texts differ in various
ways.
WES1.14 Recognises overall text structure and basic grammatical features of simple texts and some conventions of written language.
 
mathematics working mathematically WMES1.1 Asks questions that could be explored using mathematics in relation to Early Stage 1 content.
WMES1.2 Uses objects, actions, imagery, technology and/or trial and error to explore
mathematical problems.
WMES1.3 Describes mathematical situations using everyday language, actions, materials and informal recordings.
WMES1.4 Uses concrete materials and/or pictorial representations to support conclusions.
WMES1.5 Links mathematical ideas and makes connections with, and generalisations about, existing knowledge and understanding in relation to Early Stage 1 content.

Number NES1.1 Counts to 30, and orders, reads and represents numbers in the range 0 to 20.
NES1.2 Combines, separates and compares collections of objects, describes using everyday language and records using informal methods.
NES1.3 Groups, shares and counts collections of objects, describes using everyday language and records using informal methods.
NES1.4 Describes halves, encountered in everyday contexts, as two equal parts of an object.
  No outcome at this stage.

Pattern and Algebra PAES1.1 Recognises, describes, creates and continues repeating patterns and number patterns that increase or decrease.

Data DES1.1 Represents and interprets data displays made from objects and pictures.

Measurement MES1.1 Describes length and distance using everyday language and compares lengths using direct comparison.
MES1.2 Describes area using everyday language and compares areas using direct
comparison.
MES1.3 Compares the capacities of containers and volumes of objects or substances using direct comparison.
 MES1.4 Compares the masses of two objects and describes mass using everyday language.
 MES1.5 Sequences events and uses everyday language to describe the duration of activities.

Space and Geometry SGES1.1 Manipulates, sorts and represents three-dimensional objects and describes them using everyday language.
SGES1.2 Manipulates, sorts and describes representations of two-dimensional shapes using everyday language.
SGES1.3 Uses everyday language to describe position and give and follow simple directions.

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Physical education

DMES1.2 Identifies some options available when making simple decisions.
PDHPE
ALES1.6 Develops a repertoire of physical activities in which they can participate.
PDHPE
MOES1.4 Demonstrates a general awareness of how basic movement skills apply in play and other introductory  movement experiences.
PDHPE
DAES1.7 Moves in response to various stimuli.
PDHPE
GSE1.8 Demonstrates fundamental movement skills while playing with and sharing equipment.
PDHPE

B

Me

VAES1.1 Makes simple pictures and other kinds of artworks about things and experiences.
Creative Arts
VAES1.2 Experiments with a range of media in selected forms.
Creative Arts
VAES1.3 Recognises some of the qualities of different artworks and begins to realise that artists make artworks.
Creative Arts
VAES1.4 Communicates their ideas about pictures and other kinds of artworks.
Creative Arts
DRAES1.1 Uses imagination and the elements of drama in imaginative play and dramatic situations.
Creative Arts
DRAES1.2 Dramatises personal experiences using movement, space and objects.
Creative Arts
DRAES1.4 Responds to dramatic experiences.
Creative Arts
DRAES1.1 Participates in dance activities and demonstrates an awareness of body parts, control over movement and expressive qualities.
Creative Arts
DAES1.2 Explores movement, using the elements of dance in response to a stimulus to express ideas, feelings or moods.
Creative Arts
DAES1.3 Responds to and communicates about the dances they view and/or experience.
Creative Arts
MUES1.1 Participates in simple speech, singing, playing and moving activities, demonstrating an awareness of musical concepts.
Creative Arts
MUES1.2 Creates own rhymes, games, songs and simple compositions.
Creative Arts
MUES1.4 Listens to and responds to music.
Creative Arts
CUES1 Communicates some common characteristics that all people share, as well as some of the differences.
HSIE
COES1.1 Expresses feelings, needs and wants in appropriate ways.
PDHPE
GDES1.9 Identifies how people grow and change.
PDHPE
IRES1.11 Identifies how individuals care for each other. DAES1.7
PDHPE
ICES1.2 Recognises and uses various means of communication.
SciTech
DMES1.8 Generates own ideas and designs through trial and error, play, modeling and making.
SciTech
UTES1.9 Identifies and uses a limited range of equipment, computer based technology, materials and other resources when undertaking exploration and production.
SciTech

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D

Healthy choices

PHES1.12 Displays basic, positive health practices. ALES1.6, DMES1.2
PDHPE
Creative Arts MUES1.1, MUES1.2, MUES1.4
INVES1.7 Investigates their surroundings by observing, questioning, exploring and reporting.
SciTech
PPES1.4 Explores and identifies ways some forms of energy are used in their daily lives. UTES1.9
SciTech

 

A

Our place

BEES1.1 Explores and identifies ways in which built environments suit their users. DMES1.8, UTES1.9
SciTech
Creative Arts DRAES1.1, VAES1.1, VAES1.2, VAES1.3, VAES1.4
ENES1 Gathers information about natural and built environments and communicates some of the ways in which they interact with, and can care for, these environments.
HSIE
SLES1.13 Demonstrates an emerging awareness of the concepts of safe and unsafe living. DMES 1.2, PHES 1.12
PDHPE

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F

Moving

Creative Arts DAES1.1, DAES1.2, DAES1.3, MUES1.1, MUES1.2, MUES1.4
GYES1.10 Performs basic movement patterns to show actions of the whole body. MOES1.4, GSES1.8, DAES1.7
PDHPE
SciTech INVES1.7, PPES1.4

E

Our needs

SSES1 Identifies ways in which their own needs and the needs of others are met, individually and cooperatively.
HSIE
Creative Arts DRAES1.1, DRAES1.3, DRAES1.4
INES1.3 Relates well to others in work and play situations. IRES1.11, PHES1.12
PDHPE
PSES1.5 Recognises the relationship between everyday products and people’s needs. DMES1.8, UTES1.9
SciTech

C

Changes

PSES1.5 Seeks help as needed when faced with simple problems. SLES1.13, GDES1.9
PDHPE
Creative Arts DRAES1.1, DRAES1.3, DRAES1.4, VAES1.1, VAES1.2, VAES1.3, VAES1.4
CCES1 Describes events or retells stories that demonstrate their own heritage and the heritage of others.
HSIE
LTES1.3 Identifies ways in which living things are different and have different needs.
SciTech
ESES1.6 Explores and identifies ways the environment influences their daily lives. INVES1.7
SciTech

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key Creative Arts Creative Arts outcome

Outcomes are written in full once only.
The outcome code is used when the outcome is repeated.

Physical education is a separate group for programming to ensure all students participate in 120 minutes of planned activity each week

HSIE HSIE outcome
PDHPE PDHPE outcome
SciTech Science & Technology outcome
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