Learning and Teaching

Inquiry

As outlined in the first newsletter, our overarching theme for 2024 is 'Be Ready'. To ensure students commenced the year with the right skills, strategies and mindset, they have been unpacking 'Be Ready' in their Inquiry lessons.

For the second half of this term, students will move into a Health Unit during Inquiry. This, of course, does not mean that we stop 'Being Ready'. In fact, the skills learnt throughout this explicit unit with be reinforced and revisitied regularly throughout the year!

You might even like to as your child to send you an updated tub photograph!

Each year level with delve deeper into an aspect of Health, ranging from people in the community that keep us safe, through to healthy eating and puberty.

Below is an exert from the Victorian Curriculum explaining how we Develop Health Literacy. 

Develop health literacy

Health literacy can be understood as an individual’s ability to gain access to, understand and use health information and services in ways that promote and maintain health and wellbeing. The Health and Physical Education curriculum focuses on developing knowledge, understanding and skills related to the three dimensions of health literacy:

• functional dimension — including researching and applying information relating to knowledge and services in order to respond to a health-related question
• interactive dimension — including more advanced knowledge, understanding and skills to actively and independently engage with a health issue and to apply new information to changing circumstances
• critical dimension — including accessing and critically analysing health information from a variety of sources which might include scientific information, health brochures or messages in the media, in order to take action to promote personal health and wellbeing or that of others.

Consistent with a strengths-based approach, health literacy is a personal and community asset to be developed, evaluated, enriched and communicated.