Year 8 Health and Physical Education

Course Description

The Year 7 and 8 curriculum expands students’ knowledge, understanding and social skills to help them achieve successful outcomes in classroom, leisure, social, movement and online situations. Students learn how to take positive action to enhance their own and others’ health, safety and wellbeing. They do this as they examine the nature of their relationships and other factors that influence people’s beliefs, attitudes, opportunities, decisions, behaviours and actions. Students demonstrate a range of help-seeking strategies that support them to access and evaluate health and physical activity information and services.

The curriculum for Years 7 and 8 supports students to refine a range of specialised knowledge, understanding and skills in relation to their health, safety, wellbeing, and movement competence and confidence. Students develop specialised movement skills and understanding in a range of physical activity settings. They analyse how body control and coordination influence movement composition and performance and learn to transfer movement skills and concepts to a variety of physical activities. Students explore the role that games and sports, outdoor recreation, lifelong physical activities, and rhythmic and expressive movement activities play in shaping cultures and identities. They reflect on and refine personal and social skills as they participate in a range of physical activities.

Topics from Learning Assessment Plan

Health and Physical Education is broken into two areas as per its name.

The Health curriculum covers the following:

Adolescent relationships
SINE (Relationships and Sexual Health)

The Physical Education component covers:

Balance and Movement
Athletics
Invasion Games
Net Games

Assessment and Rationale

Health Assessments will focus on reflective strategies and group discussion including:

A letter to the younger me
weekly reflective journal
in-class discussions

The assessment of Physical Education will include:

choreographing a routine
self-recording of data
skill acquisition and active participation

HASS : what is it for?

Watch the video below for further insight, and to find out precisely why Health and Physical Eucation is such an important part of the curriculum.