Health & PE
The Australian Curriculum: Health and Physical Education is organised into two content strands: personal, social and community health and movement and physical activity.
Each strand contains content descriptions which are organised under three sub-strands.
Personal, social and community health Movement and physical activity
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- Being healthy, safe and active
- Identities
- Changes and transitions
- Help-seeking
- Making healthy and safe choices
- Moving our body
- Refining movement skills
- Developing movement concepts and strategies
Communicating and interacting for health and wellbeing
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- Interacting with others
- Understanding emotions
- Health literacy understanding movement
- Fitness and physical activity
- Elements of movement
- Cultural significance of physical activity
Contributing to healthy and active communities
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- Community health promotion
- Connecting to the environment
- Valuing diversity learning through movement
- Teamwork and leadership
- Critical and creative thinking in movement
- Ethical behaviour in movement settings
Areas of focus can include drug and alcohol education, food and nutrition, relationships and sexuality, safety, active play and minor games, fundamental movement skills, games and sport. Students will gain knowledge, understandings, attitudes and skills to help them achieve healthy behaviour and address health related issues.
Physical Education
In Physical Education, students work towards developing new skills and coordination; with and without equipment; an understanding of teamwork, and the importance of being active.
In addition to physical education lessons and daily fitness activities run by classroom teachers, there is opportunity for children to participate in additional sporting activities throughout the year, such as sport clinics or join out of school hours sporting teams including cricket, soccer, netball.
Swimming/Aquatics
Year 6/7 students have aquatic lessons at Port Noarlunga Aquatic Centre in Term 1 or 4.
Year R-5 students have a week of swimming lessons at Noarlunga Leisure Centre during the year.
SAPSASA (South Australian Primary Schools Athletics Sports Association)
We actively encourage older students (Year 5-7) to become involved in the SAPSASA program. The school provides opportunities for students to represent the school in individual sports such as cross country. They also have opportunities to try out for various district teams such as soccer and netball.
Health
Students have the opportunity to learn about and to participate in making healthy choices, every day including:
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- ‘Brain Food’ – healthy snack time with fresh fruit and vegetables
- Sunsmart policy – wearing of hats when outdoors
- Water bottles at school
- Play is the Way Social Skills program
- Anti- bullying and other social skill programs such as Cybersafety
- Guest speakers eg dieticians, athletes
- Support of local services in delivering programs eg Marion Council
- Participation in growing and cultivating vegetables in school garden
- Cooking healthy foods
All students will also progress through the 4 strands of the Child Protection Curriculum relevant to their year level. Topics to be covered include:
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- The right to be SAFE
- Relationships
- Recognising and Reporting Abuse
- Protective Strategies