Wargomerrin News - Year 7

Celebration Health and Physical Education

Health and Physical Education focuses explicitly on developing movement skills and concepts students require to participate in physical activities with competence and confidence. The knowledge, understandings and skills students develop through movement in Health and Physical Education encourages ongoing participation across their lifespan and in turn leads to positive health outcomes.

Movement competence and confidence is seen as an important personal and community asset to be developed, refined, and valued. 

The Health and Physical Education curriculum is informed by a strengths-based approach. Learning focuses on the development of knowledge, understandings and skills students require to make healthy, safe, and active choices that will enhance their own and others’ health and wellbeing. This incorporates the Resilience, Rights, and Respectful Relationships Curriculum, which develops students’ social, emotional, and positive relationship skills. 

Efforts to promote social and emotional skills and positive gender norms in children and young people has been shown to improve health related outcomes, subjective wellbeing, and helps young people recognise, reflect on, and moderate their own unhealthy behaviours.