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Levels 3 and 4

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 and emotional responses in varying situations. They also develop a further understanding of...

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Levels 3 and 4 Content Descriptions

Personal, Social and Community Health

Being healthy, safe and active
  1. Examine how success, challenge and failure strengthen personal identities (VCHPEP088)
  2. Explore strategies to manage physical, social and emotional change (VCHPEP089)
  3. Describe and apply strategies that can be used in situations that make them feel uncomfortable or unsafe (VCHPEP090)
  4. Identify and practise strategies to promote health, safety and wellbeing (VCHPEP091)
Communicating and interacting for health and wellbeing
  1. Describe factors that can positively influence relationships and personal wellbeing (VCHPEP092)
  2. Investigate how emotional responses vary in family situations and in friendship groups (VCHPEP093)
  3. Discuss and interpret health information and messages in the media (VCHPEP094)
Contributing to healthy and active communities
  1. Describe strategies to make the classroom and playground healthy, safe and active spaces (VCHPEP095)
  2. Participate in outdoor games and activities to examine how participation promotes a connection between the community, natural and built environments, and health and wellbeing (VCHPEP096)

Movement and Physical Activity

Moving the body
  1. Practise and refine fundamental movement skills in different movement situations in indoor, outdoor and aquatic settings (VCHPEM097)
  2. Perform movement sequences which link fundamental movement skills (VCHPEM098)
  3. Practise and apply movement concepts and strategies (VCHPEM099)
Understanding movement
  1. Examine the benefits of physical activity and physical fitness to health and wellbeing (VCHPEM100)
  2. Combine the elements of effort, space, time, objects and people when performing movement sequences (VCHPEM101)
Learning through movement
  1. Adopt inclusive practices when participating in physical activities (VCHPEM102)
  2. Apply innovative and creative thinking in solving movement challenges (VCHPEM103)
  3. Apply basic rules and scoring systems, and demonstrate fair play when participating (VCHPEM104)

Levels 3 and 4 Achievement Standard

By the end of Level 4, students recognise strategies for managing change. They examine influences that strengthen identities. They investigate how emotional responses vary and understand how to interact positively with others in different situations including in physical activities. Students interpret health messages and discuss the influences on healthy and safe choices. They understand the benefits of being fit and physically active. They describe the connections they have to their community and how these can promote health and wellbeing.

Students apply strategies for working cooperatively and apply rules fairly. They select and demonstrate strategies that help them stay safe, healthy and active at home, at school and in the community. They refine fundamental movement skills and apply movement concepts and strategies in different physical activities and to solve movement challenges. They create and perform movement sequences using fundamental movement skills and the elements of movement.

Levels 5 and 6

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 physical and social changes that are occurring for them and examine how the nature of their relationships...

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Levels 5 and 6 Content Descriptions

Personal, Social and Community Health

Being healthy, safe and active
  1. Explore how identities are influenced by people and places (VCHPEP105)
  2. Investigate resources to manage changes and transitions associated with puberty (VCHPEP106)
  3. Investigate community resources and strategies to seek help about health, safety and wellbeing (VCHPEP107)
  4. Plan and practise strategies to promote health, safety and wellbeing (VCHPEP108)
Communicating and interacting for health and wellbeing
  1. Practise skills to establish and manage relationships (VCHPEP109)
  2. Examine the influence of emotional responses on behaviour, relationships and health and wellbeing (VCHPEP110)
  3. Recognise how media and important people in the community influence personal attitudes, beliefs, decisions and behaviours (VCHPEP111)
Contributing to healthy and active communities
  1. Investigate the role of preventive health in promoting and maintaining health, safety and wellbeing for individuals and their communities (VCHPEP112)
  2. Explore how participation in outdoor activities supports personal and community health and wellbeing and creates connections to the natural and built environment (VCHPEP113)
  3. Investigate how celebrating similarities and differences can strengthen communities (VCHPEP114)

Movement and Physical Activity

Moving the body
  1. Practise specialised movement skills and apply them in different movement situations in indoor, outdoor and aquatic settings (VCHPEM115)
  2. Design and perform a variety of movement sequences (VCHPEM116)
  3. Propose and apply movement concepts and strategies (VCHPEM117)
Understanding movement
  1. Participate in physical activities designed to enhance fitness, and discuss the impact of regular participation on health and wellbeing (VCHPEM118)
  2. Manipulate and modify the elements of effort, space, time, objects and people to perform movement sequences (VCHPEM119)
Learning through movement
  1. Participate positively in groups and teams by encouraging others and negotiating roles and responsibilities (VCHPEM120)
  2. Apply critical and creative thinking processes in order to generate and assess solutions to movement challenges (VCHPEM121)
  3. Demonstrate ethical behaviour and fair play that aligns with the rules when participating in a range of physical activities (VCHPEM122)

Levels 5 and 6 Achievement Standard

By the end of Level 6, students investigate developmental changes and transitions. They understand the influences people and places have on personal identities. They recognise the influence of emotions on behaviours and discuss factors that influence how people interact. They describe their own and others’ contributions to health, physical activity, safety and wellbeing. They describe the key features of health-related fitness and the significance of physical activity participation to health and wellbeing. They examine how community wellbeing is supported by celebrating diversity and connecting to the natural and built environment.

Students demonstrate skills to work collaboratively and play fairly. They access and interpret health information. They explain and apply strategies to enhance their own and others’ health, safety and wellbeing at home, at school and in the community. They perform specialised movement skills and propose and combine movement concepts and strategies to achieve movement outcomes and solve movement challenges. They apply the elements of movement when composing and creating movement sequences.

Levels 7 and 8

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 do this as they examine the nature of their relationships and other factors that influence people...

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Levels 7 and 8 Content Descriptions

Personal, Social and Community Health

Being healthy, safe and active
  1. Investigate the impact of transition and change on identities (VCHPEP123)
  2. Evaluate strategies to manage personal, physical and social changes that occur as they grow older (VCHPEP124)
  3. Examine barriers to seeking support and evaluate strategies to overcome these (VCHPEP125)
  4. Investigate and select strategies to promote health, safety and wellbeing (VCHPEP126)
Communicating and interacting for health and wellbeing
  1. Investigate the benefits of relationships and examine their impact on their own and others’ health and wellbeing (VCHPEP127)
  2. Analyse factors that influence emotions, and develop strategies to demonstrate empathy and sensitivity (VCHPEP128)
  3. Develop skills to evaluate health information and express health concerns (VCHPEP129)
Contributing to healthy and active communities
  1. Plan and use strategies and resources to enhance the health, safety and wellbeing of their communities (VCHPEP130)
  2. Plan and implement strategies for connecting to natural and built environments to promote the health and wellbeing of their communities (VCHPEP131)
  3. Examine the benefits to individuals and communities of valuing diversity and promoting inclusivity (VCHPEP132)

Movement and Physical Activity

Moving the body
  1. Use feedback to improve body control and coordination when performing specialised movement skills (VCHPEM133)
  2. Compose and perform movement sequences for specific purposes in a variety of contexts (VCHPEM134)
  3. Practise, apply and transfer movement concepts and strategies (VCHPEM135)
Understanding movement
  1. Participate in physical activities that develop health-related and skill-related fitness components, and create and monitor personal fitness plans (VCHPEM136)
  2. Demonstrate and explain how the elements of effort, space, time, objects and people can enhance performance (VCHPEM137)
  3. Participate in and investigate the cultural and historical significance of a range of physical activities (VCHPEM138)
Learning through movement
  1. Practise and apply personal and social skills when undertaking a range of roles in physical activities (VCHPEM139)
  2. Evaluate and justify reasons for decisions and choices of action when solving movement challenges (VCHPEM140)
  3. Modify rules and scoring systems to allow for fair play, safety and inclusive participation (VCHPEM141)

Levels 7 and 8 Achievement Standard

By the end of Level 8, students investigate strategies and resources to manage changes and transitions and their impact on identities. Students evaluate the benefits of relationships on wellbeing and respecting diversity. They analyse factors that influence emotional responses. They gather and analyse health information. They investigate strategies that enhance their own and others’ health, safety and wellbeing. They investigate and apply movement concepts and strategies to achieve movement and fitness outcomes. They examine the cultural and historical significance of physical activities and examine how connecting to the environment can enhance health and wellbeing.

Students explain personal and social skills required to establish and maintain respectful relationships and promote fair play and inclusivity. They justify actions that promote their own and others’ health, safety and wellbeing at home, at school and in the community. Students demonstrate control and accuracy when performing specialised movement skills. They apply and refine movement concepts and strategies to suit different movement situations. They apply the elements of movement to compose and perform movement sequences.

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