Health & Physical Education

Physical Education Description

Physical Education aims to develop a healthy, active approach to participation now and for the future. During the year students should aim to perform proficient motor skills which are appropriate to the following activities: fitness testing, ball sports, team sports and minor games.

Learning Standards

Health Knowledge and Promotion

Students develop knowledge, understanding and skills to create opportunities and take action to enhance their own and others' health, wellbeing, safety and physical activity participation. Students develop skills to manage their emotions, understand the physical and social changes that are occurring for them and examine how the nature of their relationships changes over time. They also explore a range of factors and behaviours that can influence health, safety and wellbeing.

Students begin to explore the relationship between safety, risk and challenge, with an emphasis on developing their knowledge and understanding of strategies and skills to reduce harm, prevent accidents and create safe and supportive environments. Students learn to understand that everyone has an equal opportunity to participate, irrespective of skill level. Where appropriate, they participate in competitive activities through intra- school sport.

Movement and Physical Activity

Students refine and further develop a wide range of fundamental movement skills in more complex movement patterns and situations in a range of settings, including indoor, outdoor and aquatic. They also apply their understanding of movement strategies and concepts when composing and creating movement sequences and participating in games and sport. Students are introduced to the concepts of attack and defence, following the rules of the game, and describing the roles of various positions. They begin to work with others to set and achieve goals in both cooperative and competitive game settings.

Assessment

• Aerobic fitness testing

• Anaerobic fitness testing

• Sun smart or water safety information task

• Sport survey project

• Physical activity training plan

• Health benefits project

Languages Italian

Description

Through learning another language, students develop communication skills that allow them to gain access to societies beyond their own. It allows contact with, and enrichment from, various parts of our global community. Students in Years 5 - 6 become aware and appreciative of the differences between English and another language, in this case Italian. They develop and refine receptive, productive and interactive use of the language as well as become aware of the multicultural nature of Australia and other societies. Students are exposed to a rich variety of texts and audio-visual resources to develop an interest in Italian. In Year 5, students cover topics such as self-descriptions and family, days, months and seasons, sports and festivities in Italy and around the world.

Learning Standards

Communicating

Substrands: Socialising, Informing, Creating, Translating, Reflecting Students use language for communicative purposes. They learn the knowledge, skills and behaviours relevant to the Italian language by various means, such as socialising, informing, creating and translating within the language as well as reflecting on what they have achieved.

Understanding

Substrands: Systems of language, Language variation and change, role of language and culture Students develop knowledge of the connections between language and culture, and how culture is embedded throughout the communication system. They identify and use key features of the language, such as grammatical gender, and compare and contrast like events in cultures which use different languages.

Assessment

• Write simple sentences based on modelled examples

• Listen to short, simple texts and show understanding

• Use basic structures in Italian to ask and respond to simple questions