Year 9 Health & Physical Education

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Year 9 Health & Physical Education

Students learn to apply health and physical activity information to devise and implement personalised plans for maintaining healthy and active habits. The Year 9 curriculum supports students to explore the many facets of health and wellbeing through the development of positive, respectful relationships and the impact this has on individuals and communities. In a collaboration with Science, students refine and apply strategies for maintaining a positive outlook and evaluating factors that can enhance a person’s quality of life through deeper understandings of concepts associated with exercise science. Students explore the many facets of health and physical fitness and the role that personal health plays in community outcomes. Students propose strategies to support the development of preventive health practices that build and optimise community health and wellbeing.

Year 9 students analyse how participation in physical activity and sport influence an individual’s identity, and explore the role participation plays in shaping cultures. The curriculum also provides opportunities for students to refine and consolidate personal and social skills in demonstrating leadership, teamwork and collaboration in a range of physical activities.

The students are involved in small and large group activities in both theory and physical work.

Structure

Unit 1: Water Polo + Fuel for Sport

The elements that impact performance, particularly in Water Polo.
Individual needs for nutrition and sports performance.

Unit 2: Respectful relationships and Team sports

Transitioning through adolescence.
The impact of understanding physical, emotional, societal and environmental factors that are impacting on young people and their relationships
resources to support the development of self-identity and healthy relationships.
Leadership, collaboration strategies and ethical behaviours across a range of movement contexts.

Physical Activity for Health (with science)

Critical health literacy to make decisions impacting on positive health outcomes.
The health of Australians, influences, barriers and enablers to healthy physical activity participation, how to improve health outcomes by being active and the benefits of including physical activity into daily life.
Using training styles and data to evaluate community-based physical activity interventions to make decisions for healthy outcomes.

Unit 4: Mental Health + Recreational activities

Managing identities, emotions and responses to change as a teenager.
Understanding the influences and how to manage this time of life.
Recreational activities as preventative and coping interventions to support this personal development, and to enhance their own and others' health and wellbeing.