Navigating the Primary Classroom Curriculum

To access the Primary Classroom Curriculum, you will need an Access Key which comes with an active subscription.

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First, ensure you are signed in to your Learning Hub account with an active Primary Classroom Curriculum subscription

Getting started

Before diving into the Primary Classroom Curriculum, we recommend first completing the Mental Fitness Foundations course. There are two paths to access the course:

• Head to the Primary Classroom Curriculum page
• Scroll down to the bottom of the page, where you will see three white supplementary information boxes
• On the box titled 'Mental Fitness Foundations', click 'See courses'
• OR, via the main menu on the left hand side, click the 'Courses' menu item
  
  

We also recommend looking through the Implementation Guides. To find these you can click here if you are signed in, or:

• Head to the Primary Classroom Curriculum page
• Scroll down to the bottom of the page, where you will see three white supplementary information boxes
• On the box titled 'Implementation Guides', click 'See guides'
  
  

Teaching

Once you have signed in, you will see two ways to access the Primary Classroom Curriculum:

• In the main menu on the left hand side, click the 'Primary Classroom Curriculum' menu item
• On the home screen, you will see a purple box reading 'Primary Classroom Curriculum' and a 'Start teaching' button
  
  

Within the Primary Classroom Curriculum, you will see the page is segmented into three parts:

• Full lessons - Containing information about full lessons and links through to each year levels lessons
• Brain Breaks - Containing information about Brain Breaks, the Brain Break of the Day, and a link through to see all the Brain Break activities
• Supplementary information - Containing links to the Mental Fitness Foundations Course, Implementation Guides, and Specialist Topic Training
  
  
  

• Navigating:
  Each page contains 'Breadcrumbs' - linking through to previous pages. You can use this to 'go back', or by simply clicking your browsers 'Back' button.
  
  

Full lessons

Full lessons are structured around a 5 step learning cycle, the Pedagogical Approach, which enables students to Learn, Practise, Debrief, Integrate, and Solidify. You can learn more in the Implementation Guide: Teaching Lessons - Scope and Sequence.

Year: Select the appropriate year level (1 - 6) for your classroom via the purple buttons. We have included developmental stages to assist you in selecting the right content for your students.

Topics: There are 21 full lessons available for each year level. 

Each year level will include an introductory lesson, called Orientation, and 20 topic-focussed lessons. In the Implementation Guide, we recommend following the sequential order of the lesson topics, but it us up to what is appropriate and relevant for the educator and students.

Each full lesson has:

• A Teacher view - Containing a Rationale, mapping to the Australian Curriculum v0.9, mapping to the Smiling Mind Mental Fitness Model skillsets, Learning Intention, Learning Outcome, links and advice about necessary resources and a full printable Lesson Plan following the Pedagogical Approach.
  
• A Student view - An interactive view designed to be displayed front-of-class for student engagement. It is bright and bold - with large text, vivid colours, appropriate language, and friendly illustrated characters. It also contains the prompts for discussion and digital resources needed during the lesson. Also included is 'annotation mode' -  functionality to be able to 'draw' on the interface, to direct attention to specific areas.
  
  
• Navigation toggle - A toggle button in the top right hand corner of each full lesson, to easily move back and forth between Teacher and Student View as needed
  
• Resources - Topics will always have resources. These can include printable worksheets, audio content/meditations or even digital activities.
  
  

Brain Breaks

Brain Breaks are short digital interactive activities designed for students up to Year 2. They align to lesson topics, but also contain and feature Smiling Mind Creek episodes and characters.

Select the 'Brain Break of the Day' to quickly and easily jump into an activity, OR, click 'See all Brain Breaks' to browse through all Brain Break Activities

Each activity contains:

• A Teacher Guide containing instructions on how to run the activity
• A Smiling Mind Creek episode applicable to the activity 
• The interactive activity to project up for the class
• Navigation:
  Easily show/hide the Teacher Guide by clicking on the 'Teacher Guide' tab. 
  Quickly move from Episode to Activity using the 'Episode/Activity' toggle in the top right hand corner.
  
  

There are three types of Brain Break activities:

• Card Reveal - As a class click each card to flip it over, and follow the instruction or discussion prompt
• Spinning Wheel - As a class, spin the wheel (or select a segment) to reveal and instruction or discussion prompt
• Storybook - Each page presents a narrative and provides three possible responses. As a class, choose and click the response, which will present a discussion or thought prompt. You can select one response, or go through each one!