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AC9HP2P05: Year 1 Health and Physical Education Content Descriptor – Making healthy and safe choices
AC9HP2P05 Year 1 Health and Physical Education

AC9HP2P05 – Year 1 Health and Physical Education: Making healthy and safe choices

Strand
Personal, social and community health
Substrand
Making healthy and safe choices

This Content Descriptor from Year 1 Health and Physical Education provides the specific knowledge and skills students should learn. Use it to plan lessons, create learning sequences, and design assessments that align with the Australian Curriculum v9.

Content Descriptor

identify and demonstrate protective behaviours and help-seeking strategies they can use to help them and others stay safe

Elaborations

  • • identifying the body’s reaction to a range of situations, including safe and unsafe situations, and comparing the different emotional responses
  • • identifying and rehearsing strategies they can use when requiring assistance, such as asking an adult they trust, reading signs and symbols to identify safe places, and solving a problem with friends
  • • proposing strategies they can use at school and home that promote healthy use of digital tools
  • • recognising photos and locations of safe places and a network of people who can help
  • • discussing the importance of seeking help when problems are too big to solve by themselves
  • • exploring how characters in texts use protective behaviours and help-seeking strategies to keep themselves and others safe

Achievement Standard This Supports

This Content Descriptor contributes to the following Achievement Standard:

Year 1 ASHPEY12
Year 1 Health and Physical Education Achievement Standard
By the end of Year 2, students explain how personal qualities contribute to identities. They describe how emotional responses affect their own and others' feelings. They demonstrate skills and describe strategies required to develop respectful relationships. Students apply protective behaviours and help-seeking strategies to keep themselves and others safe. They explain why health information is important for making choices. Students apply fundamental movement skills in different movement situations and explain how they move with objects and in space effectively. They describe factors that make physical activity beneficial. Students develop and apply rules while collaborating with others in a range of movement contexts.