Victorian Learning Standards (VELS)
Teachers at St Thomas’ are highly qualified and continually attend in-services for the benefit of children’s learning. Our school is gradually implementing the Victorian Learning Standards (VELS) as per Government guidelines.
Within each strand of learning, the essential knowledge, skills and behaviours are organised into domains with further divisions and dimensions. Standards are written for each dimension. The relationship between the strands, domains and dimensions is shown in the table below.
| Strand | Domain | Dimension |
| Physical, Personal And Social Learning |
Health & Physical Education |
Movement and physical activity |
| Health knowledge and promotion | ||
| Interpersonal Development |
Building social relationships | |
| Working in teams | ||
| Personal Learning | The individual learner | |
| Managing personal learning | ||
| Civics and Citizenship |
Civic knowledge and understanding | |
| Community engagement | ||
| Discipline-based Learning |
The Arts | Creating and Making |
| Exploring and responding | ||
| English | Reading | |
| Writing | ||
| Speaking and Listening | ||
| Languages Other Than English |
Communicating in a language other than English | |
| Intercultural knowledge and language awareness | ||
| Humanities – Economics |
Economic knowledge and understanding | |
| Economic reasoning and interpretation | ||
| Humanities – Geography |
Geographical knowledge and understanding | |
| Geospatial skills | ||
| Humanities – History |
Historical knowledge and understanding | |
| Historical reasoning and interpretation | ||
| Mathematics | Number | |
| Space | ||
| Measurement, chance and data | ||
| Structure | ||
| Working mathematically | ||
| Science | Science knowledge and understanding | |
| Science at work | ||
| Interdisciplinary Learning |
Communication | Listening, viewing and responding |
| Presenting | ||
| Design, Creativity And Technology |
Investigating and designing | |
| Producing | ||
| Analysing and evaluating | ||
| Information and Communications Technology (ICT) |
ICT for visualising thinking | |
| ICT for creating | ||
| ICT for communicating | ||
| Thinking | Reasoning, processing and inquiry | |
| Creativity | ||
| Reflection, evaluation and metacognition |