Australian Curriculum Version9.0, Years3–4 Visual Arts. Exact seven source records from the official workbook, freshly retrieved1October2026, independently matched to the current dated29September2026 canonical snapshot. HTML tags are removed and display whitespace normalised; content is not abbreviated. Raw attributes/cells and source rows are retained privately in national-authority.json.
ARTVISY34
Source sheet Learning areas, row 21538, subject Visual Arts, level Years3–4.
In this band, learning in The Arts builds on each student’s prior learning and experiences. Arts learning in this band continues to use purposeful and creative play-based activities that foster development of students’ identity and wellbeing, and their connection with and contribution to the world. Students further develop their capability and confidence in using subject-specific skills, and creative and critical practices. They work individually and in collaboration with peers and teachers. Students continue to explore artworks that they experience at home, school or through family and community events. They connect with visual artists who live and work in the community; for example, by visiting arts spaces and/or exploring artworks and experiences such as virtual exhibitions. They use stimulus materials such as images, events, texts, questions and observations as inspiration for their own visual arts practice. These experiences support students to develop aesthetic knowledge across cognitive, sensory, emotive and physical domains, and to value artworks and practices from across cultures, times, places and/or other contexts such as countries or cultures in Asia. In this band, the focus is on students: exploring and responding to artworks and experiences that showcase where, why and/or how visual arts are created across cultures, times, places and/or other contexts. examples of artworks created by First Nations Australians that communicate connection to and responsibility for Country/Place developing creative and critical practices and skills creative practices for using visual conventions, visual arts processes and materials critical practices by observing, reflecting on and responding to artworks and visual arts practices they experience, including their own visual arts practice creating artworks in a range of 2D, 3D and/or 4D (time-based) forms using available materials (including available digital tools) presenting/sharing artworks in informal settings such as spaces within the school.
AC9AVA4E01
Source sheet Learning areas, row 21540, subject Visual Arts, level Years3–4.
explore where, why and how visual arts are created and/or presented across cultures, times, places and/or other contexts
AC9AVA4E02
Source sheet Learning areas, row 21548, subject Visual Arts, level Years3–4.
explore how First Nations Australians use visual arts to communicate their connection to and responsibility for Country/Place
AC9AVA4D01
Source sheet Learning areas, row 21556, subject Visual Arts, level Years3–4.
experiment with a range of ways to use visual conventions, visual arts processes and materials
AC9AVA4C01
Source sheet Learning areas, row 21563, subject Visual Arts, level Years3–4.
use visual conventions, visual arts processes and materials to create artworks that communicate ideas, perspectives and/or meaning
AC9AVA4P01
Source sheet Learning areas, row 21571, subject Visual Arts, level Years3–4.
share and/or display artworks and/or visual arts practice in informal settings
Whole Years3–4 achievement standard (no official code assigned)
Source sheet Achievement standards, row 24, subject Visual Arts, level Years3–4.
By the end of Year 4, students describe the use of visual conventions, visual arts processes and materials in artworks they create and/or experience. They describe where, why and/or how visual artists create and/or display artworks across cultures, times, places and/or other contexts. Students use visual conventions, visual arts processes and materials to create artworks that communicate ideas, perspectives and/or meaning. They share or display their artworks and/or visual arts practice in informal settings.
Selected opportunities and open parts
D01: actual experiments in line, scale, spacing, overlap, mark texture and available physical/digital processes. Record the actual trial and operator; a spoken plan alone does not establish material experimentation. C01: actual learner artwork communicating an own idea, with purposeful revision/retention. A title or supplied-image interpretation alone does not establish creating. P01: actual informal sharing/display only when it happens; optional private own review leaves that component open. E01: supplied2026 digital corporate teaching-art creator/process/context facts and own actual making can support a narrow discussion; these do not provide the band’s real artist and cross-cultural/historical breadth. E02: unprovided; no First Nations work, Country/Place knowledge or authorisation is invented.
The whole introduction includes community artists, different cultures/times/places and possible2D/3D/4D work. This two-week pack supplies original2D encounters and optional ordinary paper-bend trials; no time-based sequence, full form/media breadth, real artist/cultural programme or whole-band/year completion is claimed. QCAA's current indexed alignment is a local comparison, with national workbook code authority retained. The QCAA example code AC9DR4E01 differs from exact national AC9AVA4E01; the current direct request returned 403 HTML, so no native PDF layout is claimed. School Arts allocation, other-state/territory adoption and real classroom/access/pacing remain local/open checks.
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Modified from Years 3–4 band Visual Arts: Australian Curriculum Version 9.0 — Achievement standard aligned to content descriptions, © State of Queensland (QCAA) 2023, licensed under CC BY 4.0, subject to that source's terms and exclusions. Modification: an original plain-language comparison of selected code/standard relationships, with the example-code discrepancy and actual access stated. No endorsement or affiliation is implied. Australian Curriculum expression within that source remains © ACARA2010–present under its separate conditions above. A PDF failure body is held only as access evidence.
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