AC9HP6M05 Year 5 Health and Physical Education

AC9HP6M05 – Year 5 Health and Physical Education: Making active choices

Strand

Movement and physical activity

Substrand

Making active choices

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

participate in physical activities that enhance health and wellbeing in natural and outdoor settings, and analyse the steps and resources needed to promote participation

Elaborations

• analysing how access to natural environments and the outdoors can influence participation in physical activities, and enhance health and wellbeing
• learning traditional dances from local First Nations Australian community members and recognising the role dance plays in the lives of these communities
• researching the Australian 24-Hour Movement Guidelines for Children and Young People, comparing their daily habits of physical activity to the recommendations and proposing strategies for enhancing or maintaining their levels of activity
• discussing how a connection to a community space or special place can influence the types of physical activity options people will choose to participate in, such as links to skate parks, surf beaches or bushwalking trails

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.