AC9HP6M01 Year 5 Health and Physical Education

AC9HP6M01 – Year 5 Health and Physical Education: Moving our bodies

Strand

Movement and physical activity

Substrand

Moving our bodies

This Content Descriptor from Year 5 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

adapt and modify movement skills across a variety of situations

Elaborations

• applying stability and locomotor skills to dodge and feint in different movement situations
• performing activities that involve a transition from one skill to another, such as from dribbling to shooting or from leaping to balancing, in changing movement situations
• adapting kicking, striking and throwing skills to a variety of new games and activities
• combining surface propulsion and underwater skills in an aquatic environment
• composing and performing a range of static and dynamic balances on different body parts, rotating and pivoting to change direction of movement

Achievement Standard This Supports

This Content Descriptor contributes to the following Achievement Standard:

Year 5 ASHPEY56

Year 5 Health and Physical Education Achievement Standard

By the end of Year 6, students explain how different factors influence identities. They propose strategies to manage emotions, developmental changes and transitions. They propose strategies to demonstrate respect, empathy and inclusion. They explain how stereotypes influence roles and responsibilities. Students explain how communication skills, protective behaviours and help-seeking strategies keep themselves and others safe online and offline. They analyse health information to refine strategies to enhance their own and others’ health, safety, relationships and wellbeing. Students refine and modify movement skills and apply movement concepts across a range of situations. They transfer movement strategies between situations and evaluate the impact on movement outcomes. Students propose strategies to promote physical activity participation that enhance health, fitness and wellbeing. They describe contributions they can make as a group and team member to support fair play and inclusion across a range of movement contexts.