AC9HP4P08 Year 3 Health and Physical Education

AC9HP4P08 – Year 3 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 3 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

describe and apply protective behaviours and help-seeking strategies in a range of online and offline situations

Elaborations

• describing warning signs (physical, emotional and external) that can help them to know if they are safe or unsafe
• examining protective behaviours to stay safe in different situations, including near water or roads, in the park, when they are online or when someone makes them feel uncomfortable or unsafe
• identifying a range of help-seeking strategies to negotiate positive outcomes when challenging situations, such as reporting negative or harmful online behaviour by seeking help from trusted adults
• indicating on a local map the location of safe places and people who can help if they feel unsafe or scared
• proposing strategies for managing online safety by recognising when they feel uncomfortable or unsafe, and identifying steps for reporting negative or harmful behaviour
• discussing different protective behaviours and help-seeking strategies characters in texts use to keep themselves and others safe

Achievement Standard This Supports

This Content Descriptor contributes to the following Achievement Standard:

Year 3 ASHPEY34

Year 3 Health and Physical Education Achievement Standard

By the end of Year 4, students identify influences that strengthen identities and describe strategies to manage emotions, changes and transitions. They apply skills and strategies to interact respectfully with others. They describe the influences that inclusion and stereotypes have on choices and actions. Students describe and apply protective behaviours and help-seeking strategies to keep themselves and others safe online and offline. They interpret health information to apply strategies to enhance their own and others’ health, safety, relationships and wellbeing. Students apply fundamental movement skills and demonstrate movement concepts across a range of situations. They adapt movement strategies to enhance movement outcomes. Students examine factors that influence participation and propose strategies to incorporate regular physical activity into their own and others’ lives. They demonstrate fair play and inclusion through a range of roles in movement contexts.