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PE and Health

Health and Physical Education at Irymple Secondary College

Health and Physical Education Co-ordinator: Ms Michelle Beswick

Sports Co-ordinator: Mr Steve Morrish

PE and Health Mission Policy 2015

Aim

At ISC we encourage students to develop the physical skills and mind sets to participate regularly in a broad range of physical activities. We also, through our Health Units, develop positive awareness about relevant teenage health issues and encourage students to seek help through recognised Health Resources.

Overview

Year 7
Movement and Physical Activity
Students will have the opportunity to learn how to:

1. Perform confidently and efficiently in a range of movement environments (indoor, outdoor and aquatic).
2. Refine basic and complex motor skills and apply these skills in increasingly complex games and activities.
3. Maintain regular participation in moderate to vigorous physical activity and monitor exercise intensity.
4. Explain the process for improving health-related fitness.
5. Effectively use strategic thinking and work with peers to improve game performance.
6. Work independently to improve performance.
7. Evaluate the performance of a partner and provide constructive feedback based on performance criteria to assist skill development.
8. Describe and analyse the various roles required in competitive sports.
9. Work in groups to create a game and establish rules and procedures for its safe conduct.

Health Knowledge and Promotion
Students will get the opportunity to learn to:

1.  Identify the likely physical, emotional and social changes that occur during puberty.
2.  Identify and discuss the validity of the ways in which people define their own and other people’s identity.
3. Describe the actions they can take if they feel unsafe at home, school and in the community.
4. escribe the physical, social, emotional and spiritual dimensions of health and establish health goals and plan strategies for improving their personal health.
5. Describe a range of health services, products and information that can be accessed to help meet health needs and concerns.

Year 8
Movement and Physical Activity

Students will get the opportunity to learn how to:

1. Proficiently perform complex movement and manipulative skills.
2. Measure their own fitness and physical activity levels and identify factors that influence motivation to be physically active.
3. Maintain regular participation in moderate to vigorous physical activity and analyse and evaluate their level of involvement in physical activity.
4. Combine motor skills, strategic thinking and tactical knowledge to improve individual and team performance.
    

Health Knowledge and Promotion
Students will get the opportunity to learn how to:

1. Describe the physical, emotional and social changes that occur as a result of the adolescent stage of the lifespan and the factors that influence their own development.
2. Describe the effect of family and community expectations on the development of personal identity and values.
3. Identify outcomes of risk-taking behaviours and evaluate harm-minimisation strategies.
4. Identify the health concerns of young people and strategies that are designed to improve their health.
5. Describe the health resources, products and services available for young people and consider how they could be used to improve health.

Year 9 & 10
Movement and Physical Activity
Students will get the opportunity to learn how to:

1. Demonstrate proficiency in the execution of manipulative and movement skills during complex activities.
2. Demonstrate advanced skills in selected physical activities.
3. Use training methods to improve their fitness level, and participate in sports, games, recreational and leisure activities that maintain regular participation in moderate to vigorous physical activity.
4. Employ and devise skills and strategies to counter tactical challenges in games situations.
5. Assume responsibility for conduct of aspects of a sporting competition in which roles are shared.
6. Display appropriate sporting behaviour.

Health Knowledge and Promotion
Students will get the opportunity to learn how to;

1. Identify and explain the rights and responsibilities associated with developing greater independence, including those related to sexual matters and sexual relationships.
2. Describe mental health issues relevant to young people.
3. Compare and evaluate perceptions of challenge, risk and safety.
4. Demonstrate understanding of appropriate assertiveness and resilience strategies.
5. Analyse the positive and negative health outcomes of a range of personal behaviours and community actions.
6. Identify the health services and products provided by government and non-government bodies and analyse how these can be used to support the health needs of young people.

Homework
Students are expected to complete unfinished work from classes, study for tests and any other homework set by the classroom teacher.

Pathways and Extension subjects:
At ISC we offer Outdoor Education as an elective choice in Years 9 & 10, Sports Science in Year 9, Pathways to Physical Education in Year 10 and VCE Health and Human Development (Units 1 & 2) in Year 10.