AC9HP8P08 Year 7 Health and Physical Education

AC9HP8P08 – Year 7 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 7 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

refine protective behaviours and evaluate community resources to seek help for themselves and others

Elaborations

• exploring different strategies they can use, and resources or help sites they can access or refer others to, if they are experiencing symptoms of anxiety or depression
• examining scenarios to highlight how emotions, dispositions, social supports, and gender and cultural norms can affect a person’s willingness to seek help
• exploring strategies for dealing with online abuse and bullying when there is an imbalance of power, such as grooming, image-based abuse or negative social interactions, and reporting the situation to appropriate authorities, trusted adults and through online tools
• collaborating with peers to suggest strategies they could use if they are being encouraged to use a substance such as alcohol, e-cigarettes, cannabis or inhalants
• analysing how bystanders play a role in ensuring online spaces are positive and safe, and examining how support services such as kidshelpline and the eSafety Commissioner can provide support for young people who feel unsafe, bullied or abused online
• exploring help-seeking scenarios young people may encounter and sharing strategies for dealing with each situation, including situations linked to substance use, mental health issues, safety and risk-taking, and sexual health

Achievement Standard This Supports

This Content Descriptor contributes to the following Achievement Standard:

Year 7 ASHPEY78

Year 7 Health and Physical Education Achievement Standard

By the end of Year 8, students analyse factors that influence identities, emotions and responses to change, and describe strategies to respond to these influences. They analyse how stereotypes, respect, empathy and valuing diversity influence relationships. Students analyse the effectiveness of assertive communication strategies, protective behaviours and help-seeking strategies applied online and offline. They analyse health information and messages to propose strategies that enhance their own and others’ health, safety, relationships and wellbeing. Students apply and transfer movement skills and movement concepts across a range of situations. They implement and evaluate the effectiveness of movement strategies on movement outcomes. Students propose and evaluate strategies designed to achieve personal health, fitness and wellbeing outcomes. They select, use and refine strategies to support inclusion, fair play and collaboration across a range of movement contexts.