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• 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: 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

• 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

• 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

• VCHPEM028

  Follow basic single word instructions when participating in structured physical activities

  Elaborations

  • waiting for and attending to teacher directions
  • wearing safety equipment during some physical activities
  • responding to single-word safety instructions from a familiar adult, including ‘stop’, ‘wait’, ‘come’
  • learning how to use equipment appropriately

  VCHPEM028 | Health and Physical Education | Level B | Movement and Physical Activity | Learning through movement

• VCHPEM054

  Cooperate with others and demonstrate characteristics of a good sport when participating in physical activities

  Elaborations

  • participating in simple games with support and practising social skills
  • demonstrating an understanding of and following familiar game rules
  • demonstrating characteristics of a good sport
  • learning to negotiate with others when working or playing games in groups

  VCHPEM054 | Health and Physical Education | Level D | Movement and Physical Activity | Learning through movement

• VCHPEP007

  Experience play activities

  Elaborations

  • participate in structured play with significant people and classmates
  • experiencing objects and environments and learning to react to elements
  • experiencing a range of ways to play and reacting to and demonstrating a readiness to engage in play

  VCHPEP007 | Health and Physical Education | Level A | Personal, Social and Community Health | Contributing to healthy and active communities

• Health and Physical Education | Health and Physical Education: Resources

  A range of resources to assist with implementing the Victorian Curriculum F – 10 are available. Please visit the following websites to access these resources (links open in a new window):

  • Victorian Curriculum F – 10 Resources and Support (VCAA)

  Includes general advice and information...

  Overview material | Health and Physical Education

• VCHPEM038

  Engage in regular physical activities and explore the development of their ability and health

  Elaborations

  • moving around their environment and perform simple whole-body movements
  • learning through a range of structured learning activities to use equipment to slide, climb, float, ride and swing
  • choose from a series of structured leisure activities at home and at school
  • identifying how regular physical activity can help keep people healthy
  • exploring how their ability and health improve over time due to regular physical activities

  VCHPEM038 | Health and Physical Education | Level C | Movement and Physical Activity | Understanding movement

• VCHPEP048

  Explore what actions promote health, safety and wellbeing

  Elaborations

  • exploring and learning about healthy eating and showing an understanding of basic food-handling hygiene
  • identifying safety equipment used to minimise injury during physical activities
  • identifying personal hygiene routines that need to be carried out each day
  • learning the basic rules of respect for another person; sharing, offering assistance and cooperating and practising these skills
  • following safety symbols and procedures at school, home and in aquatic and road environments

  VCHPEP048 | Health and Physical Education | Level D | Personal, Social and Community Health | Contributing to healthy and active communities

• VCHPEP032

  Practise personal hygiene, independence skills and social skills including taking turns

  Elaborations

  • practising expressing needs, wants and feelings, and self-discipline to be an effective group member
  • participating in personal hygiene practices including hand washing, face washing, nose blowing and toilet routines and beginning to identify why they are important
  • exploring scenarios, actions and consequences and discussing how it feels and their choices
  • creating and retelling stories about social skills and exploring and practising the skills targeted
  • learning how to be kind, fair and respectful to others through structured learning experiences and social stories and how they can make people feel

  VCHPEP032 | Health and Physical Education | Level C | Personal, Social and Community Health | Communicating and interacting for health and wellbeing

• VCHPEM140

  Evaluate and justify reasons for decisions and choices of action when solving movement challenges

  Elaborations

  • explaining and justifying the movement concepts and strategies selected in response to movement challenges
  • demonstrating to others the approach taken to solve movement challenges
  • identifying factors that enabled them to achieve success in movement activities and explaining how these factors can be transferred to other learning contexts

  VCHPEM140 | Health and Physical Education | Levels 7 and 8 | Movement and Physical Activity | Learning through movement

• VCHPEM011

  Experience their body moving in relation to effort, space, objects and people

  Elaborations

  • exploring the space around them and learning to move in space and complete basic movement patterns
  • experiencing and demonstrate awareness of own body moving in aquatic environment
  • assisting to position body to perform routine movements involved in stretching routines, hydrotherapy or sitting or bearing weight

  VCHPEM011 | Health and Physical Education | Level A | Movement and Physical Activity | Understanding movement

• VCHPEM024

  Engage in regular physical activities and explore the development of their ability

  Elaborations

  • developing gross motor skills including reaching with either hand and crossing the midline
  • demonstrating a range of purposeful movements in aquatic environments
  • preforming familiar tasks with support in a limited range of locations
  • learning about how their body moves during and develops during participation in different physical activities

  VCHPEM024 | Health and Physical Education | Level B | Movement and Physical Activity | Understanding movement

• VCHPEP021

  Engage in structured play activities

  Elaborations

  • focusing attention to significant people and watching and responding to others during structured play
  • experiencing the interaction of others through playing and being able to react to classmates and significant adults
  • exploring basic play equipment and learning how to use play equipment
  • responding to and cooperating with the teacher to complete tasks and games

  VCHPEP021 | Health and Physical Education | Level B | Personal, Social and Community Health | Contributing to healthy and active communities

• 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

• VCHPEP018

  Practise basic skills of personal care and communicate basic needs, likes and dislikes and experience the social skills of turn taking and sharing

  Elaborations

  • practising basic personal care and hygiene skills including hand washing, face washing, nose blowing and toilet routines
  • learning to follow class rules and routines
  • practising expressing needs, wants and feelings, active listening and showing self-discipline to be an effective group member
  • practising social skills in structured sessions

  VCHPEP018 | Health and Physical Education | Level B | Personal, Social and Community Health | Communicating and interacting for health and wellbeing

• VCHPEP044

  Identify the major parts of the body by their names and sequence images of major stages of life

  Elaborations

  • identifying the major parts of the body by their proper names and beginning to describe their function
  • identifying those parts of the body that are ‘private’ and identify the contexts in which body parts should be kept private
  • learning how bodies grow and change over time through major stages of life, baby, toddler, child, teenager, adult, older person

  VCHPEP044 | Health and Physical Education | Level D | Personal, Social and Community Health | Being healthy, safe and active