AC9HP6M06 Year 5 Health and Physical Education

AC9HP6M06 – 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

propose and explain strategies to increase physical activity and reduce sedentary behaviour levels in their lives

Elaborations

• creating and participating in an activity circuit they could replicate at home that is designed to improve health-related fitness
• examining the benefits of physical activity for social health and mental wellbeing, and researching options for participating in physical activities in the local area
• investigating the resources needed and steps required to set up a lunchtime sports competition, activity circuit or playground games aimed at increasing levels of physical activity among students and staff

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.