Physical, Personal and Social Learning
A curriculum designed to equip students for the challenging world of the twenty-first century needs to ensure that students develop as people who take increasing responsibility for their own physical wellbeing, their own learning, their own relationships with others and their role in the local, national and global community.
Within the Physical, Personal and Social Learning strand the learning domains are:
A healthy, physically active lifestyle is conducive to more effective participation in all that society has to offer and greater levels of success within and beyond school. This requires students to develop the knowledge, skills and behaviours that enable them to:
- maintain good health and live a healthy lifestyle
- understand the role of physical activity in ensuring good health
- engage in physical activity.
In our highly interconnected and interdependent world, students must learn to work with others by:
- building positive social relationships
- working and learning in teams
- managing and resolving conflicts.
As students progress through school they need to be encouraged and supported to take greater responsibility for their own learning and participation at school. This involves developing as individual learners who:
- acquire self knowledge and dispositions which support learning
- can learn with peers, including by seeking and responding appropriately to feedback
- increasingly manage their own learning and growth including by setting goals and managing resources to achieve these
- recognise and enact appropriate values within and beyond the school context.
Students need to develop the knowledge, skills and behaviours that enable them to take action as informed, confident members of a diverse and inclusive Australian society. They need to understand the political and legal systems and processes and the history that underpins them. This involves a focus on students:
- understanding their identity and roles in their community
- knowing their rights and responsibilities as citizens
- appreciating Australia’s role in the global community
- having the knowledge, skills and behaviours to participate in society and take responsible action in relation to other citizens and the environment at a local and broader level.
