KLA: Health and Physical Education
Year 7 & 8
Health and Physical Education are offered as mandatory subjects in Year 7 and 8. Year 7 and 8 PE focusses on students learning skills to be lifelong participants in physical activity, aiming at enhancing physical and mental health. Across Year 7 and 8 Sporting Schools supports students to be given the opportunity to participate in sessions during their PE classes, which are facilitated by external expert coaches, enhancing their knowledge and understanding of specific games. Additionally, students are encouraged to participate in extra curriculum opportunities, such as representing Norwood at the Interschool Sport round robins each term. Year 7 Health covers three areas of study – Healthy behaviours to promote wellbeing, Values & Family and Fostering positive and respectful relationships. Year 8 Health focusses on four areas of study – Self-esteem, Cyber Safety, Drug Education and Sexual health and respectful relationships.
Year 9 & 10
Health, Outdoor and Physical Education are offered as core and elective subjects in Year 9 and 10. Outdoor Education explores a variety of topics such as bike education, water safety, recreational development, cooking in the outdoors and initiative development using hands on experiences for students to learn about themselves and a variety of environments in Australia. Camps and Excursions including Cathedral ranges, cross country skiing, snorkelling and surfing. Year 9 Healthy Decision Making explores the topics of substance use (including vaping) health and wellbeing, respectful relationships and mental health. Year 9 PE explores a SEPEP model and then rotates through Net/Wall, Striking and Fielding, Invasion Court, Invasion Field and Minor Games. Year 10 Sport and Physical Performance focuses on five areas of study - Skeletal System, Muscular System, Cardiovascular System, Respiratory System and Energy Systems. Year 10 Health Matters explores mental health, nutrition, sexual health and safe driving.
VCE
Health and Human Development and Physical Education are both offered in VCE. Physical Education covers the principles used to analyse human movement from a biophysical perspective. Students use a variety of tools and coaching techniques to analyse movement skills and apply biomechanical and skill-acquisition principles to improve and refine movement in physical activity, sport and exercise. They use practical activities including gym sessions to demonstrate how correctly applying these principles can lead to improved performance outcomes. In unit 4 content shifts focus to explore how to improve performance from a physiological perspective. Students analyse movement skills and fitness requirements and apply relevant training principles and methods to improve performance at various levels (individual, club and elite). The METs incursion help consolidate their understanding of this.
Health and Human Development covers broad understandings of health and wellbeing that reach far beyond the individual. Students learn how important health and wellbeing is to themselves and to families, communities, nations and global society. Students explore the complex interplay of biological, sociocultural and environmental factors that support and improve health and wellbeing and those that put it at risk. The study provides opportunities for students to view health and wellbeing, and development, holistically – across the lifespan and the globe, and through a lens of social equity and justice. In year 11, students participate in the Real care baby program allowing them to have a small experience of parenting a newborn. While year 12 students participate in the Road 2 Zero excursion to consolidate learning.