AC9HP6P10 Year 5 Health and Physical Education

AC9HP6P10 – Year 5 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 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

analyse how behaviours influence the health, safety, relationships and wellbeing of individuals and communities

Elaborations

• recognising actions that can help keep classmates safe, including strategies to reduce potential for contamination, infection and anaphylaxis
• investigating practices that help promote and maintain health and wellbeing, such as eating a diet reflecting The Australian Guide to Healthy Eating, meeting recommendations for daily physical activity and creating connections with others to enhance social health
• exploring how kinship and extended family structures in First Nations Australian communities support and enhance the health, safety and wellbeing of their communities
• proposing strategies they can use in daily routines to increase physical activity levels and reduce sedentary behaviour
• practising and refining assertive communication techniques that can be used in a range of situations where they may be asked to do something they don’t believe is appropriate
• proposing and implementing strategies to positively contribute to online environments, such as evaluating the impact of “character” behaviour when gaming with peers
• examining sustainable food practices to measure the quality of food available in the school canteen or local area

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• describing strategies to support a sense of belonging and connection, and recognising the importance of social support for enhancing mental health and wellbeing

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.