Essential+Learnings

The Essential Learnings encompass two year junctures for the key learning areas of SOSE and The Arts.

SOSE (Political and economic systems):

 * make judgements about the usefulness of the information and evidence
 * draw conclusions and give explanations, using information and evidence
 * reflect on learning to identify new understandings

THE ARTS (Visual Art):

 * select ideas for arts works, considering particular audiences and particular purposes, using arts elements and languages
 * create and shape arts works by combining arts elements to express personal ideas, feelings and experiences
 * practise arts works, using interpretive and technical skills

By the end of year 5
SOSE (Political and economic systems):
 * collect and organise information and evidence
 * evaluate sources of information and evidence to determine different perpsectives, and distinguish facts from opinions
 * draw and justify conclusions based on information and evidence

THE ARTS (Visual art):

 * select and develop ideas for arts works, considering different audiences and different purposes, using arts elements and languages
 * create and shape arts works by organising arts elements to express personal and community values, beliefs and observations
 * respond to arts works by identifying and interpreting the influences of social, cultural and historical contexts, using arts elements and languages

SOSE (Culture and identity):

 * Citizenship involves belonging to groups and communities and valuing different contributions and behaviours such as caring for other members

SOSE (Political and economic systems):

 * Contributions of individuals and groups to communities can be identified by symbols and stories
 * Rights and responsibilities, rules and codes of behaviour are part of local communities

THE ARTS (Visual Art):

 * Warm (red, orange, yellow) and cool (blue, green, purple) colour schemes, and mixed and complementary colours, are used to create tone and variation
 * Line is used to suggest movement and direction
 * Regular, irregular, open, enclosed, overlapped and adjacent shapes are used to create categories and position

By the end of year 5
SOSE (Culture and identity):
 * Aboriginal people and Torres Strait Islander people have distinctive social organisation, languages and lifestyles

SOSE (Political and economic systems):

 * Citizenship involves people sharing values, and working together in communities to influence decision making, resolve conflicts and achieve consensus between diverse views of individuals and groups

THE ARTS (Visual Art):
Source: The State of Queensland (Queensland Studies Authority) 2007. Retrieved from [|www.qsa.qld.edu.au]
 * Continuous, broken and hatched lines are used to create balance, contrast, space and patterns
 * Curved, angular, symmetrical, asymmetrical and overlapping shapes are used to create balance, contrast and patterns
 * Texture creates contrast and patterns using lines, rubbings and markings