In Health and Physical Education, students strengthen their sense of self, and learn to build and manage satisfying, respectful relationships. They develop resilience and empathy as active participants in their own and others' wellbeing, using health and physical activity resources for the benefit of themselves and their communities. Health and Physical Education addresses how contextual factors influence the health, safety, wellbeing and physical activity patterns of individuals, groups and communities. Critical inquiry skills enable students to critique and challenge discrimination, assumptions and stereotypes, and to respond appropriately in a range of contexts. Integral to Health and Physical Education is the acquisition of movement skills, concepts and strategies that enable students to participate confidently and competently in a range of physical activities. Movement is a powerful medium for learning through which students can acquire and practise a range of personal, social and cognitive skills. When learning in, through and about movement, students acquire skills, understandings and dispositions that are the foundation for lifelong physical activity participation and enhanced movement performance
The Australian Curriculum: Health and Physical Education aims to enable students to:
• access, evaluate and synthesise information to make informed choices and take positive action to enhance and advocate for their own and others' health, wellbeing, safety and physical activity
• develop and use personal, social and cognitive skills and strategies to promote a sense of identity and wellbeing, and to build and manage respectful relationships
• acquire, apply and evaluate movement skills, concepts and strategies to respond confidently, competently and creatively in a variety of physical activity contexts and settings
• engage in and create opportunities for regular physical activity participation as an individual and for the communities to which they belong
• analyse how varied and changing personal and contextual factors shape opportunities for health and physical activity.
Content in the Australian Curriculum: Health and Physical Education is organised under two strands:
• Personal, social and community health
• Movement and physical activity.