HEALTH AND PHYSICAL EDUCATION Year 7 • HEALTH AND PHYSICAL EDUCATION
Year 8 • HEALTH AND PHYSICAL EDUCATION
Year 9 • HEALTH AND PHYSICAL EDUCATION
OVERVIEW
OVERVIEW
OVERVIEW
HEALTH
HEALTH
HEALTH
Students will complete a unit of work on Respectful Relationships, Nutrition and the benefits of Physical Activity. Students explore how positive choices in these areas will impact their health and wellbeing.
Students complete a unit of work on Respectful Relationships, and explore the physical, social and emotional changes they will experience during adolescence. They also explore the topic of Mental Health with a specific focus on stress. Students then investigate strategies to improve personal care to minimise the effects of stress on their daily lives.
Students complete a unit of work on personal identity, sexuality and respectful relationships. They examine the impact of changes and transitions in relationships and how to make healthy and safe personal choices. Students investigate risk taking behaviours and explore the impacts such choices have on individual health and develop strategies for harm minimisation. Students explore nutrition, in particular the role and influence sugar has on the body and evaluate various sources of nutritional information.
PHYSICAL EDUCATION Year 7 students will begin their PE journey at Mentone Grammar with a Design a Game unit where they will work collaboratively to come up with a fun and energetic game within small groups. Throughout the year they will be exposed to such topics as Indigenous Games, Footy Codes, Fitness, Invasion Games and Athletics. Year 7 Physical Education will allow students to improve their overall fitness levels with a major focus on skill improvement and enjoyment.
PHYSICAL EDUCATION Physical Education provides the opportunity for students to explore a range of different sports under the Game Sense approach to learning and teaching. This model encourages students to develop their strategic and tactical decision making, as well as developing their fine and gross motor skills, across various sporting codes.
PHYSICAL EDUCATION Course content in Physical Education at Year 9 involves a Game Sense approach to all units of work. This teaching/learning method emphasises the development of tactics and decision-making. It encourages participants to think strategically and solve problems that arise in small sided/ modified structured games.
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