PDHPE

Welcome to PDHPE for Term 2 at Mater Dei. Staff and students have been very productive already and look forward to an energetic and rewarding term ahead.

Year 7

Year 7 have begun this Term participating in a practical unit involving both Basketball and Netball as part of their Court Games unit. Our focus in practical lessons within PDHPE is developing a games sense approach to these sports to apply technical and tactical skills in dynamic activities.

Inside the classroom, Year 7 have started working through a new unit of work within the new K-10 PDHPE syllabus that focuses on celebrating diversity. Students have recently learnt about  how sense of belonging and connection to our communities can enhance health, safety and wellbeing.

Recently Mr Jason Jolley (Aboriginal School and Community Worker at the College) has visited our classes to speak to us about Indigenous connection to Country and how this supports health and well being of ATSI people.  

Year 8

Throughout Term 2 students will develop a willingness and capacity to engage in lifelong physical activity. Students are more likely to participate in physical activity if they find it enjoyable, perceive themselves as competent and are socially supported.

Students will investigate the factors that can lead to positive participation in a variety of types of physical activity as well as the barriers that can exist in this area.  In practical classes, Year 8 have begun invasion based court games involving the sports of European Handball and Tchoukball.

Year 9

Year 9 have begun participating in a Volleyball unit focusing on shot selection and court positioning within a games sense approach. Later in the term, students will have the opportunity to participate in a new unit of Gymnastics where they will develop the movement skills of balance, rotations and composition of performance routines.  

In theory lessons students have begun working through a unit of work named “Eat Well, Move Well” in which they take a strengths based approach in looking at the food and exercises choices and their options as a young person in 2019. They will develop skills in appraising health information and evaluate the effectiveness of health information presented in the media and other sources.

Child Studies

As part of the Year 9 Child Studies course, students have been studying the module preparing for parenthood. Part of this module focuses on physical, social and emotional changes during pregnancy and the impact this may have on an expecting mother. Year 9 child studies students spent a lesson recently wearing their school backpack as a ‘pregnancy belly ‘. They had to participate in a variety of activities such as weighing their ‘belly ‘, walking up and down stairs, taking off and tying up their shoes as well as cleaning up two buckets of toys.

Mr Matthew Hope | PDHPE KLA Leader