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• VCHPEP063

  Participate in play that promotes engagement with outdoor settings including aquatic and the natural environment

  Elaborations

  • exploring a range of ways to play and be active in outdoor, aquatic or natural settings
  • understanding how to be safe in the outdoors through play in natural environments

  VCHPEP063 | Health and Physical Education | Foundation Level | Personal, Social and Community Health | Contributing to healthy and active communities

• 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

• VCHPEP079

  Identify and explore natural and built environments in the local community where physical activity can take place

  Elaborations

  • recognising that physical activities can take place in a range of different environments, including natural, built and aquatic settings
  • participating in physical activities within the built structures in the school and local community where physical activity takes place

  VCHPEP079 | Health and Physical Education | Levels 1 and 2 | Personal, Social and Community Health | Contributing to healthy and active communities

• VCHPEP150

  Plan and evaluate new and creative interventions that promote their own and others’ connection to community and natural and built environments

  Elaborations

  • creating and evaluating proposals to promote the use of natural settings within the local community for physical activity
  • designing and critiquing a strategy to involve family, friends and members of the community in cultural celebrations to promote a sense of connection with and belonging to the community
  • designing and adopting actions which promote healthy, active and sustainable lifestyles
  • investigating different approaches to managing environmental resources, including how Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities demonstrate custodial responsibility for Country/Place

  VCHPEP150 | Health and Physical Education | Levels 9 and 10 | Personal, Social and Community Health | Contributing to healthy and active communities

• VCHPEP049

  Explore play in outdoor settings and the natural environment

  Elaborations

  • showing increasing control in using equipment for climbing, scrambling, sliding and swinging
  • using familiar equipment with competency
  • exploring with adult support a range of ways to play and be active in outdoor or natural settings
  • learning how to be safe in the outdoors through play in natural environments

  VCHPEP049 | Health and Physical Education | Level D | Personal, Social and Community Health | Contributing to healthy and active communities

• Health and Physical Education: Level C achievement standards

  By the end of Level C, students recognise key stages of life, how they have grown and changed. They identify some obvious emotions and their cause. They experience and become more independent with actions that help them be healthy, safe and physically active.

  They identify some different settings...

  Level description | Health and Physical Education | Level C

• VCHPEM157

  Examine the role physical activity, outdoor recreation and sport play in the lives of Australians and investigate how this has changed over time

  Elaborations

  • exploring their importance as a social and cultural practice through participation in a range of physical activities from the Asia region, such as yoga, tai chi, martial arts and Asia-inspired dance and performance art
  • researching the trends in participation in organised junior sports and predicting future trends and directions
  • investigating the varied perspectives held by Australians on sport and examining how this diversity is represented in the sports we play today
  • exploring the impact of media messages associated with physical activity, outdoor recreation and sport in Australia
  • analysing the significant contributions Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people make to sport in Australia

  VCHPEM157 | Health and Physical Education | Levels 9 and 10 | Movement and Physical Activity | Understanding movement

• 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 | 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

• 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: 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

• VCHPEP096

  Participate in outdoor games and activities to examine how participation promotes a connection between the community, natural and built environments, and health and wellbeing

  Elaborations

  • participating in physical activities in natural environments in the local area and reflecting on the enjoyable components of participation
  • comparing the characteristics and benefits of physical activities that can take place in a natural environment and those that take place in a built environment

  VCHPEP096 | Health and Physical Education | Levels 3 and 4 | Personal, Social and Community Health | Contributing to healthy and active communities

• VCHPEP113

  Explore how participation in outdoor activities supports personal and community health and wellbeing and creates connections to the natural and built environment

  Elaborations

  • exploring ways in which people can connect with other members of their community through participating in physical activities in natural settings and built environments
  • discussing how a connection to the local community, environment or special places can influence personal and community health and wellbeing
  • discussing how access to natural and built environments can help or hinder participation in physical activities
  • exploring Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander understandings of special places and the connection of these places to physical activities

  VCHPEP113 | Health and Physical Education | Levels 5 and 6 | Personal, Social and Community Health | Contributing to healthy and active communities

• VCHPEP131

  Plan and implement strategies for connecting to natural and built environments to promote the health and wellbeing of their communities

  Elaborations

  • identifying local natural resources and built environments where individuals and groups can connect as a community and participate in physical and social activities
  • reflecting on the physical, social, emotional and spiritual benefits to health and wellbeing of being outdoors and of being active in a natural setting
  • promoting an understanding of minimal-impact outdoor recreation in the local area
  • exploring how a sense of connection to Country/Place sustains the health and wellbeing of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and communities

  VCHPEP131 | Health and Physical Education | Levels 7 and 8 | Personal, Social and Community Health | Contributing to healthy and active communities

• 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

• VCHPEP015

  Identify what they like and dislike

  Elaborations

  • developing a sense of self, including recognising themselves in a mirror and photographs
  • developing personal preferences and attempting tasks related to their personal preferences
  • identifying from a small selection of foods things they like
  • identifying from images people that are significant to them

  VCHPEP015 | Health and Physical Education | Level B | Personal, Social and Community Health | Being healthy, safe and active

• VCHPEP043

  Identify what they can do

  Elaborations

  • identifying some characteristics of self and others including what they can do and achievements
  • identifying things they are good at and how they have improved over time
  • describing self help skills and what strategies they can use to persist until they are successful
  • identifying ways they can use their strengths and skills to help themselves and others

  VCHPEP043 | Health and Physical Education | Level D | Personal, Social and Community Health | Being healthy, safe and active

• 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: 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 | 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