AC9HP2P06 Year 1 Health and Physical Education

AC9HP2P06 – 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

investigate a range of health messages and practices in their community and discuss their purposes

Elaborations

• identifying poison labels and medicine packaging and understanding to ask an adult before taking medicines
• discussing how eating a variety of fresh foods can influence health and wellbeing by using The Australian Guide to Healthy Eating
• investigating how foods are marketed and promoted to children through advertisements in online spaces, promotion in supermarkets, and labelling and packaging
• exploring sustainable practices that students can implement in the classroom to improve the health and wellbeing of the class, such as composting food waste, creating an edible garden and reducing single-use plastics
• creating rules and applying them at school and home to implement healthy and manageable practices with their use of digital tools

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.