Year 8 Health & Physical Education

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Year 8 Health & Physical Education

The HPE curriculum for Year 8 enables students to develop skills and understanding to positively impact personal health and wellbeing, and that of their communities. Students analyse health information and campaigns to propose strategies to enhance health, safety, relationships and wellbeing. They develop assertive communication strategies, protective behaviours and help-seeking strategies applied online and offline; and explore how stereotypes, respect, empathy and diversity influence relationships. Through the Movement and Physical Activity strand, students apply and transfer movement skills and concepts across a range of situations, propose and evaluate strategies designed to achieve personal health, fitness and wellbeing outcomes; and implement and evaluate the effectiveness of movement strategies when participating in a range of physical activities.

Structure

Strand: Movement and Physical Activity

Fundamental movement skills in a swimming environment.
Applying the FITT Principles and training methods to improve aerobic fitness in an AFL environment.
Implementing and evaluating movement strategies involved in three racquet sports; tennis, pickleball and badminton.
The rhythmic and expressive movement skills used in dance.

Strand: Personal, Social and Community Health

The impact of media and influential people on attitudes, beliefs, decisions and behaviours towards health, safety, relationships and wellbeing.
Nutrition for health and wellbeing in our day-to-day living.
How our bodies respond to pain and how the brain works to protect us.
Relationships, respect for self and others, empathy and valuing diversity.