Course: Personal Development, Health and Physical Education Faculty: PDHPE Course Fees: Nil
Impact on Stage 6: N/A
COURSE DESCRIPTION - MANDATORY
This is a compulsory, integrated course which is taken in both Year 9 and 10 (Stage 5). The PDHPE syllabus is organised into three content strands:
- Health, wellbeing and relationships
- Movement skill and performance
- Healthy, safe and active lifestyles
MAIN FOCUS AREAS
These strands will address contemporary health and physical activity concepts important to students. These are embedded in an age and stage-appropriate manner and include the following contexts:
- Alcohol and other drugs
- Food and nutrition
- Personal identity
- Mental health and wellbeing
- Relationships
- Sexuality and sexual health
- Safety
- Health benefits of physical activity
- Fundamental movement skills
- Rhythmic and expressive movement
- Individual/group/team physical activities
- Initiative/challenge physical activities
- Aquatics
- Lifelong physical activities
Appropriate PE uniform is an essential requirement for participation in practical lessons each week. Regular practical work is a vital component of this course and students must be changed into the Westfields Sports Physical Education uniform for practical work.
Students will be given a grade for their performance in PDHPE, which will appear on their RoSA. Poor participation due to the failure to bring correct uniform, continual sickness with/without explanation could result in the student not being awarded the RoSA in PDHPE.
OUTCOMES
- Assesses their own and others’ capacity to reflect on and respond positively to challenges
- Researches and appraises the effectiveness of health information and support services available in the community
- Analyses factors and strategies that enhance inclusivity, equality and respectful relationships
- Adapts and improvises movement skills to perform creative movement across a range of dynamic physical activity contexts
- Appraises and justifies choices of actions when solving complex movement challenges
- Critiques contextual factors, attitudes and behaviours to effectively promote health, safety, wellbeing and participation in physical activity
- Plans, implements and critiques strategies to promote health, safety, wellbeing and participation in physical activity in their communities
- Designs, implements and evaluates personalised plans to enhance health and participation in a lifetime of physical activity
- Assesses and applies self-management skills to effectively manage complex situations
- Critiques their ability to enact interpersonal skills to build and maintain respectful and inclusive relationships in a variety of groups or contexts
- Refines and applies movement skills and concepts to compose and perform innovative movement sequences