In Year 7 and 8 (Stage 4), students acquire foundational knowledge and skills required to continue successfully into Stage 5 (Year 9 and 10) Personal Development, Health and Physical Education (PDHPE).
Course aim
The study of PDHPE aims to enable students to develop the knowledge, understanding, skills, values and attitudes required to lead and promote healthy, safe and active lives.
What students learn
- Propose skills and strategies to enhance their health and wellbeing by exploring ways to connect with their communities.
- Analyse ways to cultivate resilience and demonstrate help-seeking strategies and behaviours to support themselves and others.
- Investigate health practices, behaviours and resources and propose actions to promote health, safety and wellbeing for themselves and others in relation to a range of health and physical activity issues.
- Recognise the need to develop habits for positive health and a lifetime of physical activity.
- Students demonstrate control and accuracy when performing specialised movement sequences and skills in dynamic physical activity contexts.
- Participate in a wide variety of moderate to vigorous physical activities to apply, adapt and vary movement skills with increased confidence and precision.
- Examine the cultural significance of physical activities and how connection and inclusion can enhance health, safety, wellbeing and physical activity levels of the wider community.
Medium of learning
- written examinations
- assignments
- research assignments
- practical investigation