Health and Physical Education Focus Areas
Mental Health & Wellbeing
- Mental health and wellbeing and mental health promotion
- Destigmatising mental illness in the community
- The impact of physical, social and spiritual / emotional health on wellbeing
- Body image and self worth and their impact on mental health and wellbeing
- Resilience and skills that support resilient behaviour
- Coping skills, helping-seeking strategies and community support resources
- networks of support for promoting mental health and wellbeing
Alcohol & Other Drugs
- SAFE USE OF MEDICINES
- ALTERNATIVES TO TAKING MEDICINES
- THE EFFECTS OF DRUGS ON THE BODY
- FACTORS THAT INFLUENCE THE USE OF DIFFERENT TYPES OF DRUGS
- IMPACT OF DRUG USE ON INDIVIDUALS AND COMMUNITIES
- MAKING INFORMED DECISIONS ABOUT DRUGS (ASSERTIVE BEHAVIOUR, PEER INFLUENCE, HARM MINIMISATION, AWARENESS OF BLOOD-BORNE VIRUSES)
- PERFORMANCE ENHANCING DRUGS IN SPORT
Food & Nutrition
- Food groups and recommendations for healthy eating
- Nutritional requirements and dietary needs
- Food labelling and packaging
- Food Advertising
- Personal, social, economic, and cultural influences on food choices and eating habits
- Strategies for planning and maintaining a healthy balanced diet
- Healthy options for snacks, meals and drinks
- Sustainable food choices
Health Benefits of Physical Activity
- Physical Benefits of Participating in Physical activities
- Benefits of physical activities based on intensity, nature and frequency
- social, emotional and cognitive benefits of regular activity
- Social, cultural and environmental influences on physical activity participation
- Sedentary behaviors and their impact on health and wellbeing
- strategies for minimising behaviour and including physical activity in daily routines
Fundamental Movement Skills
- Locomotor & non-locomotor skills :
- Rolling - balancing - sliding
- Jogging - leaping - hopping
- Dodging - Skipping - Floating
- Object control skills :
- Bouncing - Throwing - Catching
- Kicking - Striking
Rhythmic & Expressive Movement Activities
- Creative Movement
- Movement exploration
- Dance styles & Dance Elements
- Other possibilities:
- circus skills, rhytmic gymnastics, educational gymnastics, tai-chi, yoga
Realationships and Sexuality
- People who are important to students
- Parts of the body and how the body changes as they grow
- Strategies for relating to and interacting with others
- Assertive Behaviour and Standing up for Themselves
- Establishing and managing changing relationships (online/offline)
- Bullying, Harrassment, Discrimination and violence (inc. discrimination based on race, gender and sexuality
- Strategies for dealing with Relationships when there is an imbalance in power (inc. seeking help or leaving the relationship)
- Puberty and how the body changes over time
- Managing the physical, social and emotional changes that occur during puberty
- Reproduction and sexual health
- Practices that support reproductive and sexual health (contraception, negotiating consent, and prevention of sexually transmitted infections and blood-borne viruses
- Changing identities and the factors that influence them (inc. Personal, Cultural, Gender & Sexual identities)
- Celebrating and respecting difference and diversity in individuals and communities
Challenge & Adventure Activities
- Initiative games
- Movement challenges individually or as teams/groups
- recreational activities in natural and outdoor settings
- navigational challenges
Games and Sports
- Modified Games
- Traditional Games or Sports
- Culturally significant games and sports - eg traditional indigenous sports
- Non-traditional games and sports inc. student designed games
Active Play & Minor Games
- Imaginative play
- Small group games
- Minor Games
- Lead up games
Lifelong Physical Activities
- Individual and group activities
- Active recreation activities :
- tai-chi, yoga, pilates
- bushwalking
- recreational cycling
- Resistance training
Safety
- Safety at school
- Safe practices at home, in road or transport environments, in the outdoors and when near water
- Safe and unsafe situations at home, school and parties in the community
- Strategies for dealing with unsafe or uncomfortable situations
- Safe practices when using information and communications technologies and online services, inc. dealing with cyberbullying
- Managing personal safety
- First aid and emergency care, inc. safe blood practices
- Safety when participating in physical activity, inc. sports safety, sun safety, use of protective equipment and modifying rules
- Relationship and dating safety
