Primary source: QCAA Australian Curriculum v9 Prep Media Arts achievement standard aligned to content descriptions. The QCAA Media Arts v9 page confirms Queensland Prep and C-standard reporting context. ACARA's current Media Arts examples of knowledge and skills treats pre-production, production and post-production plus media concepts as suggested, non-prescriptive planning supports. Prep is Foundation, not the Years 1–2 band.
| Exact code and strand | Official content description | Early evidence in these ten starts | Boundary |
|---|---|---|---|
| AC9AMAFE01 · Exploring and responding | “explore how and why the arts are important for people and communities” | Day 9 asks who made an authorised real media work and why its makers share it. | Our invented paper tokens cannot establish a real maker/community's purposes. A school-selected, authorised work and first-party context are held. |
| AC9AMAFD01 · Developing practices and skills | “use play, imagination, arts knowledge, processes and/or skills to discover possibilities and develop ideas” | Children compare order, frame, crop, caption and endings while keeping other features stable. | Paper choices evidence story planning; no camera, editing, audio or viewing skill is inferred. |
| AC9AMAFC01 · Creating and making | “create arts works that communicate ideas” | Children arrange original two- and three-frame visual stories for a fictional purpose. | A directed sequence can be a small paper media work; note who made each decision, not an adult's template alone. |
| AC9AMAFP01 · Presenting and performing | “share their arts works with audiences” | An original storyboard may be shown/explained to an actual willing educator or peer by choice. | Record actual recipient and medium; a puppet-only rehearsal/pass is not actual-audience sharing. Display or online publishing is not required. |
The Foundation achievement standard says children describe experiences, observations, ideas and/or feelings about arts works encountered at school, home and/or in the community, and use play/imagination/knowledge/processes/skills to create and share in different forms. No child needs to disclose a home media practice, a feeling, or an image/voice. QCAA Prep non-performing arts techniques and conditions offers image sequencing as an example for Media Arts; the two public checks here are not a prescribed task or C-standard judgment.
Source discrepancy: A QCAA v8.4-to-v9 Prep Media Arts comparison PDF prints AC9ADAFE01, AC9ADFD01, AC9ADAFC01 and AC9ADAFP01 in its v9 Media Arts column. These are not the Media Arts codes; AC9ADFD01 also lacks the expected Dance prefix letter. The dedicated Prep Media Arts alignment gives AC9AMA..., used here. The comparison PDF is not our code authority.