Learning across the curriculum

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

Queanbeyan South Public School is very fortunate to be one of the very few primary schools in Australia to have a school kitchen. This is enhanced by our own very productive school garden.

The kitchen was originally established by a grant from the Stephanie Alexander Foundation and supplemented with extensive school funds.

The official opening held in 2013 has enabled primary classes to work in a six bay state of the art kitchen. QSPS employs a kitchen specialist three days a week to guide students in the preparation of highly nutritious produce they have grown in the school garden under the guidance of our garden specialist. Students from Year 3 to Year 6 participate in a specific curriculum based kitchen/garden program, while Kindergarten to Year 2 students visit the garden and kitchen with their teachers on a regular basis.