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Health and Physical Education

Health and Physical Education Level 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 influence their identities. Students learn about emotions, how to enhance their interactions with others...

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Health and Physical Education Content Descriptions

Personal, Social and Community Health

Being healthy, safe and active
  1. Describe their own strengths and achievements and those of others, and identify how these contribute to personal identities (VCHPEP071)
  2. Describe physical and social changes that occur as children grow older and discuss how family and community acknowledge these (VCHPEP072)
  3. Practise strategies they can use when they need help with a task, problem or situation at home and/or at school (VCHPEP073)
  4. Recognise situations and opportunities to promote their own health, safety and wellbeing (VCHPEP074)
Communicating and interacting for health and wellbeing
  1. Describe ways to include others to make them feel that they belong (VCHPEP075)
  2. Identify and practise emotional responses that account for own and others’ feelings (VCHPEP076)
  3. Examine health messages and how they relate to health decisions and behaviours (VCHPEP077)
Contributing to healthy and active communities
  1. Explore actions that help make the classroom a healthy, safe and active place (VCHPEP078)
  2. Identify and explore natural and built environments in the local community where physical activity can take place (VCHPEP079)

Movement and Physical Activity

Moving the body
  1. Perform fundamental movement skills in different movement situations in indoor, outdoor and aquatic settings (VCHPEM080)
  2. Construct and perform imaginative and original movement sequences in response to stimuli (VCHPEM081)
  3. Create and participate in games (VCHPEM082)
Understanding movement
  1. Discuss the body’s reactions to participating in physical activities (VCHPEM083)
  2. Incorporate elements of effort, space, time, objects and people in performing simple movement sequences (VCHPEM084)
Learning through movement
  1. Use strategies to work in group situations when participating in physical activities (VCHPEM085)
  2. Propose a range of alternatives and test their effectiveness when solving movement challenges (VCHPEM086)
  3. Identify rules and fair play when creating and participating in physical activities (VCHPEM087)

Health and Physical Education Achievement Standard

By the end of Level 2, students describe changes that occur as they grow older. They recognise how strengths and achievements contribute to identities. They understand how emotional responses impact on others’ feelings. They examine messages related to health decisions and describe how to help keep themselves and others healthy, safe and physically active. They identify areas where they can be active and how the body reacts to different physical activities.

Students demonstrate positive ways to interact with others. They select strategies at home and/or school to keep themselves healthy and safe and are able to ask for help with tasks or problems. They demonstrate fundamental movement skills in different movement situations and test alternatives to solve movement challenges. They perform movement sequences that incorporate the elements of movement.

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