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• VCHPEM025

  Explore the space around them and learn to move in relation to effort, space and objects

  Elaborations

  • exploring movement over various surfaces and environments
  • moving in different ways and in different directions in a designated area
  • following directions to keep personal space during physical activities
  • exploring body positions and developing coordination and flexibility when performing a range of different movements

  VCHPEM025 | Health and Physical Education | Level B | Movement and Physical Activity | Understanding movement

• Health and Physical Education | Health and Physical Education: Scope and Sequence

  The curriculum sets out what students are expected to learn and is designed as a continuum of learning. The curriculum is being presented in a scope and sequence chart to support teachers to easily see the progression and assist in planning teaching and learning programs to meet the diverse needs...

  Overview material | Health and Physical Education

• Health and Physical Education: Level D description

  The Level D curriculum provides the basis for developing knowledge, understanding and skills for students to lead healthy, safe and active lives. Students learn about their strengths and simple actions they can take to keep themselves and their classmates healthy and safe. They learn about major...

  Level description | Health and Physical Education

• Health and Physical Education: Levels 1 and 2 description

  The curriculum for Levels 1 and 2 builds on the learning from Foundation Level and supports students to make decisions to enhance their health, safety and participation in physical activity. The content enables students to explore their own sense of self and the factors that contribute to and...

  Level description | Health and Physical Education

• VCHPEP020

  Participate in a variety of health, safety and wellbeing actions

  Elaborations

  • actively participate in activities associated with their personal health and life skills
  • cooperating and learning to complete some health and safety steps independently
  • learning actions associated with healthy eating including assisting in the grouping of foods into categories
  • learning to follow safety routine symbols and procedures at school, and in aquatic and road environments and use safety equipment

  VCHPEP020 | Health and Physical Education | Level B | Personal, Social and Community Health | Contributing to healthy and active communities

• VCHPEP019

  Express their feelings, needs, likes and dislikes

  Elaborations

  • learning to indicate their basic needs, including being hungry, tired, or needing the toilet
  • learning appropriate language and actions to communicate their feelings in different situations
  • matching basic feelings of 'happiness' and 'sadness' to an event or facial expression
  • learning and using strategies to persist until they are successful

  VCHPEP019 | Health and Physical Education | Level B | Personal, Social and Community Health | Communicating and interacting for health and wellbeing

• Health and Physical Education: Level A description

  The Level A curriculum provides the basis for developing knowledge, understanding and skills for students to lead healthy, safe and active lives. Students learn about themselves and experience simple actions and activities to keep themselves healthy and safe.

  Students develop their awareness of...

  Level description | Health and Physical Education

• Health and Physical Education: Level B description

  The Level B curriculum provides the basis for developing knowledge, understanding and skills for students to lead healthy, safe and active lives. Students learn about their ability and simple actions they can take to keep themselves healthy and safe. Students are supported to participate in activities...

  Level description | Health and Physical Education

• Health and Physical Education: Foundation Level description

  The Foundation Level curriculum provides the basis for developing the knowledge, understanding and skills students need to lead healthy, safe and active lives. The content provides opportunities for students to learn about their strengths and describes simple actions they can take to keep themselves...

  Level description | Health and Physical Education

• Health and Physical Education: Levels 5 and 6 description

  The Levels 5 and 6 curriculum supports students to develop knowledge, understanding and skills to create opportunities and take action to enhance their own and others' health, wellbeing, safety and physical activity participation. Students develop skills to manage their emotions, understand the...

  Level description | Health and Physical Education

• 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

• VCHPEM037

  Participate in a variety of physical education experiences and games with simple rules with equipment in a range of environments

  Elaborations

  • copying simple physical movement patterns
  • beginning to learn to ride a tricycle or bike with training wheels
  • learning the skills needed to perform basic games
  • demonstrating safety rules when participating in structured physical activities
  • participating in games that require students to be aware of personal safety and game boundaries

  VCHPEM037 | Health and Physical Education | Level C | Movement and Physical Activity | Moving the body

• VCHPEP047

  Identify emotional responses and describe their feelings using pictures and/or words

  Elaborations

  • identifying situations when they might feel angry, afraid, happy, sad, lonely, anxious or excited
  • learning to differentiate emotional responses and become aware of the causes of their emotions
  • behaving appropriately in different familiar social settings and adhering to class practices
  • learning and using appropriate language and actions to communicate their feelings in different situations

  VCHPEP047 | Health and Physical Education | Level D | Personal, Social and Community Health | Communicating and interacting for health and wellbeing

• VCHPEP035

  Participate in structured play in various settings

  Elaborations

  • learning how to use and play and be active with equipment in different settings
  • learning through a range of structured learning activities to cooperate and play with peers, to be socially active and participate with others
  • developing play and social skills by playing cooperatively with a chosen peer, engaging in play activities with several others, taking turns with a partner or in small groups when using equipment
  • learning to follow basic social rules regarding sharing and care of property and social expectations regarding behaviour
  • following safety directions and indicating how to be safe in the outdoors through play in natural environments

  VCHPEP035 | Health and Physical Education | Level C | Personal, Social and Community Health | Contributing to healthy and active communities

• VCHPEP033

  Explore their feelings and practice expressing their needs, likes and dislikes using simple communication tools

  Elaborations

  • learning through supported experiences about what feelings look like, when they have felt this way and how to act
  • learning to recognise their emotional expression
  • learning to use words, signs or symbols to name emotions for self and others
  • developing a vocabulary of key concepts and using pictures and real objects to indicate their understanding of their likes and dislikes and feelings, and events associated with each feeling
  • learning about the needs and viewpoints of others through group experiences and shared decision-making
  • selecting a solution and identifying cause and effect of actions for familiar social problems

  VCHPEP033 | Health and Physical Education | Level C | Personal, Social and Community Health | Communicating and interacting for health and wellbeing

• VCHPEP030

  Identify major body parts and stages of life

  Elaborations

  • exploring major body parts through supported experiences and learning to label major body parts
  • learning about and identifying some private parts of the body from a field of three (RS, S)
  • exploring and identifying major stages of life through exploration of own family and significant people
  • learning about their current stage of life and how they are growing and changing

  VCHPEP030 | Health and Physical Education | Level C | Personal, Social and Community Health | Being healthy, safe and active

• 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

• Health and Physical Education | Health and Physical Education: Rationale and Aims

  Rationale

  Health and Physical Education focuses on students enhancing their own and others’ health, safety, wellbeing and physical activity participation in varied and changing contexts. Research in fields such as sociology, physiology, nutrition, biomechanics and psychology informs...

  Overview material | Health and Physical Education

• Health and Physical Education: Level C description

  The Level C curriculum provides the basis for developing knowledge, understanding and skills for students to lead healthy, safe and active lives. Students learn about their personal characteristics, abilities and simple actions they can take to keep themselves healthy and safe. Students are introduced...

  Level description | Health and Physical Education

• Health and Physical Education: Levels 3 and 4 description

  The Levels 3 and 4 curriculum further develops students’ knowledge, understanding and skills in relation to their health, wellbeing, safety and participation in physical activity. In these years, students begin to explore personal and social factors that support and contribute to their identities...

  Level description | Health and Physical Education