School Level Textbooks

The Victorian Curriculum F–10 incorporates the Australian Curriculum and reflects Victorian priorities and standards. In Levels 9 and 10, students build on their awareness of how and why artists, craftspeople and designers realise their ideas through different visual arts practices. They refine their personal aesthetic through working and responding perceptively as an artist, craftsperson or audience. They identify and explain how artists and audiences interpret artworks through explorations of different viewpoints.

Contains key documents and information for the Arts learning area in the Australian Curriculum.

The Victorian Curriculum F–10 incorporates the Australian Curriculum and reflects Victorian priorities and standards. In Levels 7 and 8, students make and respond to visual artworks. They design and create visual expressions of selected themes and concepts through a variety of visual arts forms and styles. Students develop an informed opinion about artworks based on their research of current and past artists. They examine their own culture and develop a deeper understanding of their practices as an artist.

The Shape of the Australian Curriculum: the Arts sets the broad direction for the writing of the Australian Curriculum for the Arts.

VELS is no longer the current curriculum in use. For comparative purposes this site provides access to the former Curriculum Standards document outlining Standards for Levels 1 - 6, including the Exploring and Responding, and Creating and Making Dimensions.

This site contains links to Arts-related learning and teaching support materials such as websites, publications, assessment examples, professional learning support and links to current research in the area of Arts education.