Health and Physical Education enables students to develop skills, understanding and willingness to positively influence the health and wellbeing of themselves and their communities.
Integral to Health and Physical Education is the acquisition and application of movement skills, concepts and strategies across a range of physical activity contexts. This enables students to participate confidently and competently when moving. When learning in movement contexts, students gain skills, understanding and dispositions that support lifelong physical activity participation and enhanced movement performance.
Health and Physical Education also addresses factors that influence the health, safety, relationships, wellbeing and physical activity patterns of individuals, groups and communities. They gain skills to take positive action regarding diversity, inclusion, consent and respect in different social contexts.
Aims
Health and Physical Education aims to enable students to:
- access, evaluate and synthesise information to make informed choices and act to enhance and advocate for their own and others' health, wellbeing, safety and physical activity participation
- develop and use personal, social and cognitive skills and strategies to promote self-identity and wellbeing, and to build and manage respectful relationships
- acquire, apply and evaluate movement skills, concepts and strategies to respond confidently, competently and creatively in various physical activity settings
- engage in and create opportunities for regular physical activity participation as individuals and for the communities to which they belong
- analyse how varied and changing personal and contextual factors shape opportunities for health and physical activity.
Structure
Health and Physical Education is presented in 2-year band levels from Year 1 to Year 10, with Prep presented as a single year level.
Content in Health and Physical Education is organised under 2 strands:
- Personal, social and community health
- Movement and physical activity.
The 2 strands are interrelated and inform and support each other. Both strands must be taught in each year from Prep to Year 10.
The strands and sub-strands are shown in the table below.
Health and Physical Education instruction is provided by both HPE Specialist teacher and class teachers.
Class teachers are responsible for planning, teaching, assessing and reporting on the Personal, social and community health strand.
Health and Physical Education specialist teacher is responsible for planning, teaching, assessing and reporting on the Movement and physical activity strand.
Teachers will meet to make on-balance judgments about the quality of student work in the assessment folio, on how well the student has met those elements of the achievement standard that have been taught and assessed during the reporting period.
The Minimum Requirements for Providing the Australian Curriculum provides clarity around the time that teachers are required to spend implementing the Health and Physical Education Learning Area.