Physical Education

Health and Physical Education at Nearnung Primary School is informed by the Victorian Teaching and Learning Model and the Victorian Curriculum.

The Physical Education program is a sequential learning program based on the fundamental motor skills of running, leaping, jumping, dodging, balancing, throwing, catching, kicking, ball bouncing, forehand striking, two handed side striking and punting.

As students progress through to middle and upper primary school we introduce games such as target games, invasion games, net/wall games and striking/fielding games. We also explore other topics, including what our school values look like in physical education, gymnastics/dance, athletics, indigenous games and living healthy lifestyles and incorporating physical activity into our daily life.

Aims

Health and Physical Education aims to develop the knowledge, understanding and skills to enable students to:

• access, evaluate and synthesise information to take positive action to protect, enhance and advocate for their own and others’ health, wellbeing, safety and physical activity participation across their lifespan
• develop and use personal, behavioural, social and cognitive skills and strategies to promote a sense of personal 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 enjoy regular movement-based learning experiences and understand and appreciate their significance to personal, social, cultural, environmental and health practices and outcomes
• analyse how varied and changing personal and contextual factors shape understanding of, and opportunities for, health and physical activity locally, regionally and globally.

Health and Physical Education - Rationale and Aims - Victorian Curriculum

At Nearnung Primary School we access Sporting Schools Victoria and local community connections to have sporting professionals come and visit our classes.