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VELS level 3 – Victorian Essential Learning Standards – Stages of learning: Laying the foundations

Early Years (P-4)

Prep to Year 4 (laying the foundations), where the curriculum focuses on developing the fundamental knowledge, skills and behaviours in literacy and numeracy and basic physical and social capacities which underpin all future learning

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Key characteristics of students

Level 3

Key characteristics of students at this level include:

  1. broadening their knowledge and interest in a range of disciplinary domains
  2. developing an awareness of common values
  3. embodying resilient attitudes to learning and social behaviour
  4. transforming ideas into objects and systems
  5. applying independent thinking strategies
  6. discriminating between the quality of information when forming opinions

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