Length: Full Year

Recommended background: Successful completion of Year 8 Health & Physical Education (HPE)

Content:

Health & Physical Education (HPE) is a compulsory subject at Year 9 level and maintains a focus on content delivered through the Australian Curriculum. This subject will build upon student knowledge and understanding from Year 8 Health & Physical Education (HPE). The learning within this subject focuses on two curriculum areas in Movement and Physical Activity and Personal, Social and Community Health. Through this content, students develop an understanding of how our body moves, learning through movement, understanding movement, being safe, healthy and active, communicating and interacting for health and wellbeing and finally contributing to healthy and active communities.

Within this subject, students will actively participate in a variety of physical activities that thematically work towards developing an understanding of, an appreciation for, and finally the need to continue being physically active. Students work within a variety of sport categories ranging from Invasion, Fielding and Striking, Target, Net and Wall, Outdoor Pursuits and Rhythm and Movement to continue developing fundamental skills associated with all sports. This subject also maintains a focus on health-related issues such as Relationships and Sexual Health, Physical Fitness, Indigenous Perspectives and Drugs and Alcohol.

Assessment:

Students’ performance will be determined according to the subject’s Achievement Standards as outlined in the framework of the Australian Curriculum. Grades A to E will be used for reporting purposes.