Core Subject- Year 9 and Year 10 (One Semester)
The Australian Curriculum: Health and Physical Education (F–10) aims to develop the knowledge, understanding and skills to enable students to:
- access, evaluate and synthesise information to take positive action to protect, enhance and advocate for their own and others' health, wellbeing, safety and physical activity participation across their lifespan
- develop and use personal, behavioural, social and cognitive skills and strategies to promote a sense of personal 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 a variety of physical activity contexts and settings
- engage in and enjoy regular movement-based learning experiences and understand and appreciate their significance to personal, social, cultural, environmental and health practices and outcomes
- analyse how varied and changing personal and contextual factors shape understanding of, and opportunities for, health and physical activity locally, regionally and globally.
This course includes theoretical units on personal, social and community health including respectful relationships, sustainable health, harm minimisation, mental health as well as practical movement and physical activity units covering a variety of games, sports and other physical movement activities.
COURSE REQUIREMENTS:
• Students are required to actively participate in both theory and practical lessons.
ASSESSMENT PROGRAM
• Theory units are assessed using a variety of techniques including written exams, research reports, in-class essays, and ICT based multimodal assessment.
• Practical units are assessed on the student's consistent performance of physical skills and strategies, design and implementation of physical activities to improve performance, their demonstration of leadership, fair play and cooperation as well as their knowledge of rules and safety procedures required for the unit being studied.