- Arose from Blueprint, Flagship Strategy 1: Student Learning - to identify a broad framework of 'essential learnings' for all Victorian students.

Identifies three core components of the curriculum as essential to the development of flexible, adaptable learners who can respond to change: physical, personal and social development and growth; discipline based learning; and interdisciplinary learning.

- Identifies three stages of learning in the Years P-10 and focuses on developing expert learners.

- Retains the six level structure of the CSF but replaces the eight Key Learning Areas.