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• Health and Physical Education: Levels 9 and 10 description

  The Level 9 and 10 curriculum supports students to refine and apply strategies for maintaining a positive outlook and evaluating behavioural expectations in different leisure, social, movement and online situations. Students learn to apply health and physical activity information to devise and...

  Level description | Health and Physical Education

• Health and Physical Education: Levels 7 and 8 description

  The Level 7 and 8 curriculum expands students’ knowledge, understanding and skills to help them achieve successful outcomes in classroom, leisure, social, movement and online situations. Students learn how to take positive action to enhance their own and others’ health, safety and wellbeing. They...

  Level description | Health and Physical Education

• VCHPEP127

  Investigate the benefits of relationships and examine their impact on their own and others’ health and wellbeing

  Elaborations

  • examining how individuals, family and peer groups influence people’s behaviours, decisions and actions
  • understanding and applying online and social protocols to enhance relationships with others and protect their own wellbeing, including recognising and responding to inappropriate online content
  • analysing how their relationships at home and at school influence behaviours and actions
  • analysing how behaviours, actions, and responses to situations can change depending on whether they are by themselves, with friends or with family
  • recognising the impact bullying, violence and harassment can have on peer and family relationships, including online relationships

  VCHPEP127 | Health and Physical Education | Levels 7 and 8 | Personal, Social and Community Health | Communicating and interacting for health and wellbeing

• VCHPEP059

  Identify people and actions that help keep themselves safe and healthy

  Elaborations

  • identifying characters in different texts who help the main character to stay safe and healthy
  • identifying protective behaviours that can help keep them safe
  • identifying different relationships they have with people and which of these relationships make them feel loved, safe and supported
  • naming trusted people in their community who can help them stay safe and healthy, and practising ways of asking for help in a range of different scenarios

  VCHPEP059 | Health and Physical Education | Foundation Level | Personal, Social and Community Health | Being healthy, safe and active

• VCHPEP061

  Identify and describe emotional responses people may experience in different situations

  Elaborations

  • identifying and describing the emotions of people who are happy, sad, excited, tired, angry, scared or confused
  • learning and using appropriate language and actions to communicate their feelings in different situations at home and at school
  • recalling and sharing emotional responses to different situations and representing this in a variety of ways

  VCHPEP061 | Health and Physical Education | Foundation Level | Personal, Social and Community Health | Communicating and interacting for health and wellbeing

• VCHPEP123

  Investigate the impact of transition and change on identities

  Elaborations

  • examining the impact of physical changes on gender, cultural and sexual identities
  • investigating how changing feelings and attractions are part of developing sexual identities
  • identifying feelings and emotions associated with transitions, and practising self-talk and help-seeking strategies to manage these transitions
  • examining how traditions and cultural practices influence personal and cultural identities
  • examining online profiles and identities and developing strategies to promote safety in online environments

  VCHPEP123 | Health and Physical Education | Levels 7 and 8 | Personal, Social and Community Health | Being healthy, safe and active

• VCHPEP090

  Describe and apply strategies that can be used in situations that make them feel uncomfortable or unsafe

  Elaborations

  • recognising physical responses that indicate they are feeling uncomfortable or unsafe
  • rehearsing assertive behaviours and strong non-verbal communication skills
  • identifying and practising appropriate responses to unsafe situations in relation to drugs and drug use
  • indicating on a local map the location of safe places and people who can help
  • examining protective behaviours to stay safe in different situations, including near water or roads, in the park or when someone makes them feel uncomfortable or unsafe in their home, at schools or in the community

  VCHPEP090 | Health and Physical Education | Levels 3 and 4 | Personal, Social and Community Health | Being healthy, safe and active

• VCHPEP046

  Practise personal skills of self-care, hygiene and independence and practise social skills to interact with others

  Elaborations

  • practising personal skills including expressing needs, wants and feelings; active listening and showing self-discipline to be an effective group member
  • undertaking basic self-care and personal hygiene activities with occasional prompts and minimal supervision
  • learning to judge right and wrong on the basis of the consequences of their actions.
  • listening to stories about characters who are making friends, working in a group and discussing how the character could deal with the various situation

  VCHPEP046 | Health and Physical Education | Level D | Personal, Social and Community Health | Communicating and interacting for health and wellbeing

• VCHPEP003

  React to significant people

  Elaborations

  • indicating awareness of and reacting to familiar people
  • react to multimodal texts that identify significant people, their relationship and indicate which of these relationships make them feel loved, safe and supported
  • react to multimodal texts that identify protective behaviours that can help keep them safe and significant people in their community who can help them stay safe

  VCHPEP003 | Health and Physical Education | Level A | Personal, Social and Community Health | Being healthy, safe and active

• VCHPEP073

  Practise strategies they can use when they need help with a task, problem or situation at home and/or at school

  Elaborations

  • identifying and rehearsing strategies they can use when requiring assistance, such as asking an adult, reading basic signs and solving a problem with friends
  • locating and recording phone numbers of local organisations they can contact in case of emergency and rehearsing a phone call to triple zero
  • identifying situations at home and at school that may require the help of emergency services
  • recognising photos and locations of safe places and people who can help

  VCHPEP073 | Health and Physical Education | Levels 1 and 2 | Personal, Social and Community Health | Being healthy, safe and active

• VCHPEP125

  Examine barriers to seeking support and evaluate strategies to overcome these

  Elaborations

  • examining scenarios to highlight how emotions, dispositions and decision making can affect help-seeking outcomes
  • collaborating with peers to suggest strategies they could use in emergencies, at home, at school or in the community
  • practising different communication techniques to persuade someone to seek help
  • exploring help-seeking scenarios young people encounter and sharing strategies for dealing with each situation
  • demonstrating basic first-aid principles and strategies
  • proposing ways to support others who are going through a challenging time

  VCHPEP125 | Health and Physical Education | Levels 7 and 8 | Personal, Social and Community Health | Being healthy, safe and active

• VCHPEP060

  Practise personal and social skills to interact with others

  Elaborations

  • respond to stories about characters who have been excluded from a group and discuss how the character could deal with the situation
  • discussing how it feels to be included in activities
  • practising personal skills such as expressing needs, wants and feelings, active listening and showing self-discipline to be an effective group member at home and at school
  • listening and responding to others when participating in physical activities to achieve agreed outcomes

  VCHPEP060 | Health and Physical Education | Foundation Level | Personal, Social and Community Health | Communicating and interacting for health and wellbeing

• VCHPEP045

  Demonstrate an understanding of different kinds of relationships and identify some private places and safe and unsafe places or situations

  Elaborations

  • demonstrating an understanding of different kinds of relationships
  • learning how to make friends and developing and maintaining friendships
  • exploring and learning about feelings and safety and relating to private, safe and unsafe
  • exploring and labelling trusted people in their community who can help them stay safe and healthy
  • beginning to identify situations where they feel safe and unsafe and learning some basic strategies that they may use in unsafe situations

  VCHPEP045 | Health and Physical Education | Level D | Personal, Social and Community Health | Being healthy, safe and active

• VCHPEP031

  Identify and name members of immediate family and demonstrate safety awareness, respond to safety instructions and identify safe and unsafe places and items in the environment

  Elaborations

  • sharing information about their own family using photos
  • learning about different types of relationships and identifying the people within each relationship group
  • exploring safety and learning to demonstrate safety awareness in familiar daily routines
  • learning protective behaviours that can help keep them safe, including how to seek or communicate a need for help from trusted people in their community who can help them stay safe and healthy, recognising and communicating when then feel unsafe and practising ways of asking for help in a range of different scenarios
  • using pictures and concrete examples to identify their understanding of safe and unsafe places and items in the environment around them

  VCHPEP031 | Health and Physical Education | Level C | Personal, Social and Community Health | Being healthy, safe and active

• VCHPEP147

  Evaluate situations and propose appropriate emotional responses and then reflect on possible outcomes of different responses to health and wellbeing

  Elaborations

  • proposing strategies for managing emotional responses and resolving conflict in a family or social situation or online environment
  • evaluating situations at home and at schools where an individual may react with extreme emotion and reflecting on the impact that this response may have on the situation and/or their relationships
  • analysing interactions where emotional responses may not be immediately apparent and reflecting on the possible consequences of not recognising the emotions involved

  VCHPEP147 | Health and Physical Education | Levels 9 and 10 | Personal, Social and Community Health | Communicating and interacting for health and wellbeing

• VCHPEP146

  Investigate how empathy and ethical decision-making contribute to respectful relationships

  Elaborations

  • investigating the characteristics of positive, respectful relationships and the rights and responsibilities of individuals in relationships
  • investigating how gender and the balance of power influences the nature of relationships such as intimate and family relationships and proposing actions that can be taken when a relationship is not respectful
  • comparing own decisions with those of others and acknowledging others’ right to act differently and to change their mind
  • demonstrating and advocating appropriate bystander behaviour when participating in online interactions.

  VCHPEP146 | Health and Physical Education | Levels 9 and 10 | Personal, Social and Community Health | Communicating and interacting for health and wellbeing

• VCHPEP107

  Investigate community resources and strategies to seek help about health, safety and wellbeing

  Elaborations

  • researching health information sources and places where they can seek help
  • applying criteria to online information to assess the credibility of the information
  • creating ways to share information about local services young people can access for help, such as a blog, app or advertisement
  • discuss the resources in the local community that could assist young people when they are feeling unsafe at home or at school or during community activities

  VCHPEP107 | Health and Physical Education | Levels 5 and 6 | Personal, Social and Community Health | Being healthy, safe and active

• VCHPEP092

  Describe factors that can positively influence relationships and personal wellbeing

  Elaborations

  • describing behaviours that show empathy and respect for the rights of others at home, at school and in the community
  • creating an online connection with another school and identifying similarities and differences between students
  • predicting and reflecting on how other students might feel in a range of challenging situations, and discussing what they can do to support them
  • recognising that bullying behaviour can take many forms, in many environments, including physical, social and emotional actions and behaviours

  VCHPEP092 | Health and Physical Education | Levels 3 and 4 | Personal, Social and Community Health | Communicating and interacting for health and wellbeing

• Health and Physical Education | Health and Physical Education: Learning in Health and Physical Education

  The Health and Physical Education curriculum plays a significant role in building the knowledge, skills and understandings that apply to a range of health, wellbeing, safety and movement contexts, including:

  • Swimming and water safety
  • Respectful relationships
  • Building resilience
  • Healt...

  Overview material | Health and Physical Education

• Health and Physical Education | Health and Physical Education: Structure

  The Health and Physical Education curriculum is organised by two strands: Personal, Social and Community Health, and Movement and Physical Activity. Each strand contains content descriptions which are organised under three sub-strands.

  Strands and sub-strands

  Strands	Personal, Social and Community Health

  Overview material | Health and Physical Education