Curriculum - Primary Years Programme

Nursery - Storytelling Connects Us With Others.

1. Multistructural - An inquiry into how people communicate with others. 

2. Relational - An exploration of how people celebrate their cultures in stories. 

3. Extended Abstract - An inquiry into how we express ourselves through stories.

Year 1 - People express their uniqueness through art.

1. An inquiry into significant artists of the past and present.

2. An inquiry into expressing ourselves through art.

3. An inquiry into how we can use artwork to inspire our poetry writing.

Year 2 - Through storytelling people entertain, record history, preserve culture, and explain the unknown.

1.An inquiry into storytelling, story genres and story elements.

2. An inquiry into how stories relate to culture and history.

3.An inquiry into the role of illustrators to bring a story to life.

Year 3 - Environments can be expressed through art.

1. An inquiry into human and physical features of environments 

2. An inquiry into how environment influences art 

3. An inquiry comparing the influence of environment on past and present artists.

Year 4 -  Beliefs and values can be expressed in different ways.

1. An inquiry into personal belief and values.

2. An inquiry into how the beliefs and values in the past have been shared

3. An inquiry into how we share our beliefs and values as a society today.

Year 5 -  Expression of human history relies on communication.

1. An inquiry into how history has been shared over time.

2.An inquiry into sharing beliefs.

3. An inquiry into modern communication.

Year 6 -  Popular culture impacts expression

1. An inquiry into popular literature through time.

2. An inquiry into popular media through time.

3. An inquiry into commercial expression.