The Arts, Health and PE 

Health

The Year 3 and 4 curriculum further develops students’ knowledge, understanding and skills in relation to their health, wellbeing, safety and participation in physical activity.

Students begin to explore personal and social factors that support and contribute to their identities and emotional responses in varying situations. They also develop a further understanding of how their bodies grow and change as they get older.

Throughout the year classes will explore knowledge, understanding and skills that support students to build and maintain respectful relationships, make health-enhancing and safe decisions, and interpret health messages from different sources to take action to enhance their own health and wellbeing.

PE

Students receive one 50 min Physical Education lesson each week. They will regularly engage in moderate to vigorous aerobic activity and begin to investigate the link between physical activity and health. Competitive games are introduced in a way that develops the idea of sportsmanship including how to behave when you win and when you don’t. We also discuss the contribution rules make to safe conduct in games.

In year 3 and 4, students start to perform a broad range of complex motor skills, mainly in sport-specific situations. They begin to use and understand basic games’ tactics and are encouraged to show fair play and respect to their peers and to officials.

Our games skills focus for semester 1 will be on soccer, basketball and athletics (in preparation for our School Sports Day on March 31st). Lessons will also involve a lot of relay and hoop work this semester.

From time to time additional sporting clinics will be conducted by visiting specialist sports development officers.

Students are reminded to wear suitable clothing and footwear to all PE lessons to ensure their full participation. Our Torrens PE lessons are on the following days:

T16 - Friday                    T17 - Monday

T18 - Thursday              T19 - Wednesday

Zoe Patterson          PE teacher

The Arts (MARTS)

The Arts covers the areas of music, dance, drama, visual and media arts. The Torrens arts programme for 2017 will be given the name  'MARTS', standing for Monday Arts.

During the first term, students will be exposed to different areas of The Arts within their own classes as they build their understanding and skills. 

Classes will combine during term two, as they work together to present an artistic project or performance covering several elements of The Arts. We look forward to sharing this creative journey with the school community.