The HPE curriculum for Year 7 enables students to develop skills, understanding and willingness to positively influence the health and wellbeing of themselves and their communities. Through the Personal, Social and Community Health strand, students will analyse and reflect on the influences of values and beliefs on the development of identities; analyse the impact of changes and transitions and devise strategies to support themselves and others through these changes; and explain and apply skills and strategies to communicate assertively and respectfully when seeking, giving or denying consent. Through the Movement and Physical Activity strand, students will analyse, refine and transfer movement skills in a variety of movement situations; demonstrate and explain how movement concepts related to effort, space, time, objects and people can be manipulated to improve movement outcomes; investigate modifications to equipment, rules and scoring systems that support fair play and inclusive participation; and practise and apply leadership, collaboration and group decision making processes when participating in a range of physical activities.
The Year 7 course covers the following focus areas:
• Relationships and sexuality
• Mental health and wellbeing
• Lifelong physical activities
• Games and Sports
• Active play and minor games
Students apply and transfer movement skills and movement concepts across a range of situations through participation in a variety of physical activities and sports.
Movement and Physical Activity Semester 1
Students analyse and reflect on the influence of values and beliefs on the development of identities. In particular, students will examining how roles, decision-making and levels of power, coercion and control within relationships can be influenced by gender stereotypes and investigating strategies that have been successful in challenging harmful or limiting stereotypes, attitudes or practices.
Personal, Social and Community Health Semester 1 Workbook
Students select, use and refine strategies to support inclusion, fair play and collaboration across a range of movement contexts.
Movement and Physical Activity Semester 2
Students analyse the effectives of assertive communication strategies, protective behaviours and help-seeking strategies applied online and offline. The will refine protective behaviours and evaluate community resources to seek help for themselves and others. By doing so, students will develop understanding of and the ability to apply online and social protocols to enhance relationships with others and protect their own wellbeing, including recognising and responding to online content that may be harmful for themselves or others, respectfully communicating needs or concerns to others.
Personal, Social and Community Health Semester 2 Workbook
Assessment for the Movement and Physical Activity Strand will occur across the semester with students progressing continuously towards demonstrating the achievement standard for that semester. Assessment for the Personal, Social and Community Health Strand will occur through an in-class workbook, one per semester.
Mrs Donna Doolan
ddoolan@mfac.edu.au
