Curriculum

Curriculum



The Essential Learnings of Health and Physical Education state that by the end of year nine students develop the knowledge, skills, processes and dispositions to promote health and wellbeing, actively engage in physical activity and enhance personal development. In this activity students are working in groups to create a mindmap about smoking in order to persuade the other students in the class. This is important as students need to recognise that capabilities in heatlh, movement and personal development can improve quality of life. They are also given opportunities to reflect on their learning and apply their thinking and reasoning to develop solutions in a range of contemporary health and physical education contexts. Peer evaluation will be a vital part of this task as it assits students to become more independant learners and focus in their reading, writing and revision skills.

Students also experiment with, slect and use ICT’s across key learning areas to collaborate and enhance communcation for an identified purpose and audience. In this learning activity the audience is the other groups in the class. Technology and its products impact on everyday lives in different ways. As part of the cross corrulia prioties of this subject the mindmap enables students express and creatively represent ideas, information and thinking in innovative ways, which will be useful in other dreas of their learning. Share and communicate ideas, understandings and responses apply basic communication conventions, apply digital media to communicate, recognise some elements of image and identity in communication. A range of advanced ICT functions and applications are used across Key Learning Areas to inquire, create, communicate, and collaborate and to effeciently mamage information and data. The essential learjing also state that diversie social, culsutal and envrionemtnal facots, values, beliefs and behivaors infleunce relationships and shape personal development.