Curriculum

The Australian Curriculum is the source of all curriculum planning, assessment and reporting at Our Lady of Lourdes.

The Australian Curriculum sets consistent high standards for what all young Australians should learn as they progress through schooling. It prepares Australia's next generation for the future and lays the building blocks for generations to come.

The Learning Areas taught from The Australian Curriculum at Our Lady of Lourdes are:  English, Mathematics, Science, Humanities and Social Sciences, The Arts, Technologies, Health and Physical Education and Languages.

​The Australian Curriculum focuses on learning area content and achievement standards that describe what students will learn and teachers will teach.

It also gives attention to seven general capabilities that are important for life and work in the 21st century and to issues identified in the Alice Springs Declaration as needing more attention than they have received in curricula to date.

The general capabilities and the cross-curriculum priorities are not added as additional subjects. They are dealt with, where relevant, through the learning area content on which the curriculum is built.