Cross curriculum content enriches and supports the learning areas and adds depth to student learning. In NSW students study a range of learning across the curriculum content.
Cross curriculum priorities
- Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander histories and cultures
- Asia and Australia’s engagement with Asia
- sustainability
General capabilities
- critical and creative thinking
- ethical understanding
- information and communication technology capability
- intercultural understanding
- literacy
- numeracy
- personal and social capability
Other learning across the curriculum areas
- civics and citizenship
- difference and diversity
- work and enterprise.
© NSW Education Standards Authority (NESA) for and on behalf of the Crown in right of the State of New South Wales, 2012
Living Classroom...more than a garden
At Austinmer we have designed our school garden as a living classroom. Natural timbers and sandstone create a yarning circle, utilised for lessons across the curriculum. The garden includes decks for students to break into small groups and collaborate. We do not fence the area off, our students are encourage to enjoy the living classroom during break time. Austinmer's living classroom is a dynamic sustainable learning environment. A collaboration between students, teachers, and the community. We are indebted to our parent community and Austinmer P&C for their vision and ongoing support. When you teach a child to garden, you show them how to grow their own future.
