Aims
The Australian Curriculum: Health and Physical Education (HPE) 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
The Australian Curriculum: Health and Physical Education is presented in 2-year band levels from Year 1 to Year 10, with Prep presented as a single year.
Content is organised under 2 strands:
- Personal, Social and Community Health
- Movement and Physical Activity.
Further information can be found at the Australian Curriculum website.
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Experiences
Prep
Students learn how science works through exploration and observation, building wonder and curiosity by observing everyday objects.
Year 1 & 2
Students learn to investigate by observing and exploring the world around them and by posing and answering questions. They learn to organise their observations, look for patterns and make predictions about their world.
Year 3 & 4
Students develop their understanding about how science relates to their lives. They pose and answer questions and investigate in a more systematic way. They develop understanding of fair testing in order to explore relationships between system components.
Year 5 & 6
Students look for patterns and relationships. They recognise the important role of variables in investigations. They develop explanations based on evidence.