Please see below for information regarding the focus of our Inquiry Unit this term.
Unit One Title: Staying Alive (Health & Safety)
Through Line: Community
Learning Area/s: Health
Capability: Personal & Social Capability/Ethical Capability
Content:
Health Content Descriptors – Personal and Social Community Health
Being healthy, safe and active
Recognise situations and opportunities to promote their own health, safety and wellbeing
Practise strategies they can use when they need help with a task, problem or situation at home and/or at school
Communicating and interacting for health and wellbeing
Examine health messages and how they relate to health decisions and behaviours
Describe ways to include others to make them feel that they belong
Identify and practise emotional responses that account for own and others’ feelings
Contributing to healthy and active communities
Explore actions that help make the classroom a healthy, safe and active place
Personal and Social Capability Content Descriptors
Recognition and expression of emotions
Extend their vocabulary through which to recognise and describe emotions and when, how and with whom it is appropriate to share emotions
Development of resilience
Identify personal strengths and describe how these strengths are useful in school or family life
Explain how being prepared to try new things can help identify strategies when faced with unfamiliar or challenging situations
Relationships and diversity
Listen to others’ ideas, and recognise that others may see things differently
Describe ways of making and keeping friends, including how actions and words can help or hurt others, and the effects of modifying their behaviour
Collaboration
Use basic skills required for participation in group tasks and respond to simple questions about their contribution to group tasks
Recognise that conflict occurs and distinguish between appropriate and inappropriate ways to deal with conflict
Ethical Capability Content Descriptors
Understanding concepts
Explore the meaning of right and wrong, good and bad, as concepts concerned with the outcomes of acts
Decision making and actions
Explore the type of acts often considered right and those often considered wrong and the reasons why they are considered so
Achievement Standards:
By the end of Level 2:
Health
Recognises how strengths and achievements contribute to identities.
Understands how emotional responses impact on others’ feelings.
Examines messages related to health decisions and describes how to help keep themselves and others healthy, safe and physically active.
Personal and Social Capability
Shows an awareness of the feelings and needs of others.
Identifies and describes personal interests, skills and achievements.
Reflects on how these might contribute to school or family life.
Recognises the importance of persisting when faced with new and challenging tasks.
Recognises the diversity of families and communities.
Describes similarities and differences in points of view between themselves and others.
Demonstrates ways to interact with and care for others.
Describes their contribution to group tasks.
Practises solving simple problems, recognising there are many ways to resolve conflict.
Ethical Capability
Identifies and describes ethical concepts using illustrative examples from familiar situations and a basic vocabulary about ethical problems and their outcomes.
Identifies and explains acts and situations that have ethical dimensions, using illustrative examples.
Explains that personal feelings may influence the way people behave in situations where ethical issues are involved.
Unit One Title: Staying Alive (Health & Safety)
Through Line: Community
Themes: Students explore the concepts of health, safety and wellbeing. They examine health messages to consider healthy decisions and behaviours. They also investigate actions that help make local places, their school and their classrooms healthy, safe and active places. Students describe ways of making and keeping friends. They consider how actions and words can help or hurt others. They learn to recognise that conflict occurs and to distinguish between appropriate and inappropriate ways to deal with conflict. Students also explore the type of acts often considered right and those often considered wrong and the reasons why they are considered so.
Questions:
What types of actions keep us safe?
What types of actions keep us healthy?
What role do our decisions and behaviours play in health and safety?
Who in our community is responsible for helping us to stay safe?
