What Matters Statements
ICreate (Expressive arts) |
IBelong (Health & Wellbeing) |
IExplore (Humanities) |
ICalculate (Mathematics & numeracy) |
ICommunicate (Languages, Literacy and Communication) |
IDiscover (Science and Technology) |
Exploring the expressive arts is essential to developing artistic skills and knowledge and it enables students to become curious and creative individuals. |
Developing physical health and well-being has lifelong benefits. |
Enquiry, exploration and investigation inspire curiosity about the world, its past, present and future. |
The number system is used to represent and compare relationships between numbers and quantities. |
Languages connect us. |
Being curious and searching for answers is essential to understanding and predicting phenomena. |
Responding and reflecting, both as artist and audience, is a fundamental part of learning in the expressive arts. |
How we process and respond to our experiences affects our mental health and emotional well-being. |
Events and human experiences are complex, and are perceived, interpreted and represented in different ways. |
Algebra uses symbol systems to express the structure of mathematical relationships. |
Understanding languages is key to understanding the world around us. |
Design thinking and engineering offer technical and creative ways to meet society’s needs and wants. |
Creating combines skills and knowledge, drawing on the senses, inspiration and imagination. |
Our decision-making impacts on the quality of our lives and the lives of others. |
Our natural world is diverse and dynamic, influenced by processes and human actions. |
Geometry focuses on relationships involving shape, space and position, and measurement focuses on quantifying phenomena in the physical world. |
Expressing ourselves through languages is key to communication. |
The world around us is full of living things which depend on each other for survival. |
How we engage with social influences shapes who we are and affects our health and well-being. |
Human societies are complex and diverse, and shaped by human actions and beliefs. |
Statistics represent data, probability models chance, and both support informed inferences and decisions. |
Literature fires imagination and inspires creativity. |
Matter and the way it behaves defines our universe and shapes our lives. |
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Healthy relationships are fundamental to our well-being. |
Informed, self-aware citizens engage with the challenges and opportunities that face humanity, and are able to take considered and ethical action. |
Forces and energy provide a foundation for understanding our universe. |
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Computation is the foundation for our digital world. |