Learning Map

Western Australia and the map

WA teaches its own adaptation of the Australian Curriculum. Here’s how to use the map if you’re in Western Australia — honestly, with the differences spelled out.

What WA classrooms teach

Western Australian schools follow the Western Australian Curriculum, set by the School Curriculum and Standards Authority (SCSA). It is “adopted and adapted from the Australian Curriculum version 9” — the same national curriculum behind this site’s ACARA code pages — but it is not identical to it. SCSA is rolling the revised WA curriculum out in phases: English and Health & Physical Education have been mandated since 2025, and Mathematics, Science, Humanities and Social Sciences and Technologies are mandated from 2026.

How it differs from the national codes

Three things matter if you’re comparing WA documents to this site:

  • WA publishes no content-description codes. There’s no WA equivalent of AC9M4N04 — WA’s scope-and-sequence documents organise content by year level, strand and sub-strand only. If your school newsletter mentions a code, it’s almost certainly a national AC9 code, and it lives on our ACARA pages.
  • The wording is WA’s own. SCSA rewords the national content descriptions, so a WA document and the matching AC9 page will describe the same ground in different sentences.
  • Mathematics is the biggest departure. WA’s revised maths curriculum blends the previous WA curriculum (based on the older Australian Curriculum v8.1), ideas from the NSW curriculum reform, and AC v9 — so year-by-year placement of maths content in WA can genuinely differ from the national pages.

Using the map in WA

The skills, prerequisites and “how to tell they’ve got it” checklists on this site aren’t tied to any one state — they work the same in Perth as in Parramatta. For curriculum references, the Australian Curriculum v9 pages are the nearest open reference for what WA teaches, with the caveats above (especially in Mathematics). For WA’s official wording, year placements and assessment requirements, always use SCSA’s own site: k10outline.scsa.wa.edu.au.

Will WA get its own section?

Maybe — a dedicated WA section (like our Victorian Curriculum 2.0 section) is on the list, but it needs a page model that works without codes, and WA’s own wording isn’t openly licensed, so it isn’t a quick win. If a WA section would help you, tell us — demand moves it up the queue.

Nothing on this page is affiliated with or endorsed by SCSA. Curriculum content © School Curriculum and Standards Authority; always verify against the official WA curriculum.