CCPS – Scope and Sequence
Term 1
Term2
Preschool
Term 3
Term 4
Social and Emotional Wellbeing – School Values KidsMatter, Bounce Back, Friendly Schools, Circle Time
Expose students to and
identify purpose of the
following text types:
Expose students to and
identify purpose of the
following text types:
Expose students to and
identify purpose of the
following text types:
Expose students to and identify purpose of the following text
types:
Persuade
Kindergarten
Text Types
Persuade
Entertain
Entertain
Other texts to consider:
Entertain, Recount, Socialise
Other texts to consider:
Describe, Recount, Inquire
Other texts to consider:
Instruct and Explain
Other texts to consider:
Instruct, Explain, Socialise, Describe
“Write” a range of texts knowing the purpose
Values
Kindergarten
Inquiry
History/Geography
Science
Technology/Science
History/Geography
My History
Living Things/Weather
Observable Materials
Celebrations
What is my history?
How do I know?
What are places like?
What makes a place special?
How can we look after places?
What are the needs of living
things?
How does weather affect our
lives?
How do materials change?
How do objects move?
What would it be like to live in
a neighbouring country?
How do places, people and
cultures differ across the
world?
Refer to First Steps Maps of Development for Major Teaching Emphasis
1/2 Text Types
Term 1
Term2
Term 3
Term 4
Explore with students the
structure, purpose and
audience of the following text
types:
Persuade
Explore with students the
structure, purpose and
audience of the following text
types:
Entertain
Explore with students the
structure, purpose and
audience of the following text
types:
Entertain
Explore with students the structure, purpose and audience of
the following text types:
Other texts to consider:
Entertain, Recount, Socialise
Other texts to consider:
Describe, Recount, Persuade,
Inquire
Other texts to consider:
Instruct and Explain
Persuade
Other texts to consider:
Instruct, entertain, socialise, describe and enquire
Compose a range of texts knowing the purpose and audience
1/2 Inquiry
EVEN
1/2 Inquiry
ODD
Values
History/Geography
How has family life changed or
remained the same over time?
How are people connected to
their place?
What factors affect
connections to place?
Science/Technology
Push and Pull – How does force affect an object?
(5 weeks)
Light and Sound – How is light and sound produced?
(5 weeks)
Earth and Space – What changes can occur on land and in the
sky? How are Earth’s resources used? (5 weeks)
Values
History/Geography
What remains of the past are
important to the local
community and why?
How can spaces within a place
be rearranged to suit a
different purpose?
How can we care for local
places?
Science and Technology
Everyday Materials – How can everyday materials change? How
can different materials be combined?
(10 weeks)
Living Things – What are the needs and features of living things?
(5 weeks)
Refer to First Steps Maps of Development for Major Teaching Emphasis
History/Geography
Celebrations
What would it be like to live in
a neighbouring country?
How do places, people and
cultures differ across the
world?
History/Geography
Celebrations
What would it be like to live in
a neighbouring country?
How do places, people and
cultures differ across the
world?
Term 1
3/4 Text Types
Experiment with
the structure and
features,
considering the
purpose and
audience of the
following text
types:
Persuade (T1)
Term2
Experiment with the structure and features,
considering the purpose and audience of
the following text types:
Term 3
Term 4
Experiment with the structure and features, considering the
Experiment with the structure
purpose and audience of the following text types:
and features, considering the
purpose and audience of the
Entertain T3 / Persuade T4
following text types:
Persuade T1 / Entertain T2
Other texts to consider:
Instruct, Explain, Describe
Other texts to consider:
Describe, Recount, Persuade, Inquire
Persuade T4
Other texts to consider:
Entertain, Socialise, Describe
and Inquire
Other:
Entertain, Recount
and Socialise
Continue to compose a range of texts knowing the purpose and audience
History/Geography
Indigenous/Early Australians
Who was here first?
How are places similar and different?
How do people’s feelings about places
influence their views?
3/4 Inquiry
EVEN
Values
(Health)
3/4 Inquiry
ODD
History/Geography
Why did Europeans settle in Australia?
How and why did great journeys of
exploration occur?
Science/Technology/Geography
Living Things – What is the difference between living, non-living
and once living? How do animals and plants depend on each
other? How do regular changes (such as day/night and seasons)
affect ecosystems? How does the environment provide natural
resources for humans? How could we be sustainable with these
resources? (13 Weeks)
Science/Technology
Forces – How can one object exert force to another? How does
direct contact and distance affect force between objects? (2
Weeks)
Science/Technology/Geography
Living Things – How do living things adapt to their physical
environment? How their adaptations and physical environment
changed over time? How can people protect the environment?
(13Weeks)
Science/Technology
Forces – How can one object exert force to another? How does
direct contact and distance affect force between objects? (2
Weeks)
Refer to First Steps Maps of Development for Major Teaching Emphasis
History/Geography
Celebrations
What would it be like to live in
a neighbouring country?
How do places, people and
cultures differ across the
world?
5/6 Text Types
Term 1
Term2
Compose, using
the structure and Compose, using the structure and features,
features,
considering the purpose and audience of
considering the
the following text types:
purpose and
audience of the
Persuade / Entertain:
following text
types:
Persuade
Other texts to consider:
Describe, Recount, Inquire
Other:
Entertain,
Recount and
Socialise
Term 3
Term 4
Compose, using the structure and features, considering the
purpose and audience of the following text types:
Entertain / Persuade
Other texts to consider:
Instruct, Explain, Describe
Compose, using the structure
and features, considering the
purpose and audience of the
following text types:
Persuade
Other texts to consider:
Entertain, Socialise, Describe
and Inquire
Craft a range of texts knowing the purpose and audience
5/6 Inquiry
EVEN
Values
(Health)
5/6 Inquiry
ODD
History/Geography
Who were the people who came to Australia
and why? (19th and 20th century)
How and why did Australia become a
nation?
How Australian society changed in the 20th
century?
What are Australia’s global connections
between people and places?
History/Geography
Who were the people who came to Australia
and why? (Pre 19th century)
What do we know about our colonial past?
How did colonial settlement change the
environment and develop over time?
How do people and environments influence
one another?
Science/Technology
Chemistry – How do the physical properties influence an object’s
use? What are the different observable properties of solids,
liquids and gases? Which changes in state are reversible and
irreversible? (15 Weeks)
Science/Technology
Electricity – How does a circuit work? What is the difference
between transferring and transforming electricity through a
circuit? What energy sources can generate electricity? (10
Weeks)
Earth and Space – Where is Earth in relation to the other planets
in the Solar System? (5 Weeks)
Refer to First Steps Maps of Development for Major Teaching Emphasis
History/Geography
Celebrations
What would it be like to live in
a neighbouring country?
How do places, people and
cultures differ across the
world?