Health and Physical Education
The Health and Physical Education Domain
Introduction to Health and Physical Education
Learning focus and standards Levels 1 2 3 4 5 6
The P-10 Curriculum and Standards section of this website introduces the Health and Physical Education domain including information about its structure, the dimensions, the stages of learning, pathways to VCE, VCE VET and VCAL. It also includes the learning focus statements and standards applicable to Levels 1 to 6.
Teaching and Learning
Approaches to Health and Physical Education
This advice is designed to support the learning and teaching of the Health and Physical Education standards at Levels 1 to 6. The advice offers a range of strategies and resources which provide teachers with examples that inform and elaborate the standards.
Sexuality Education and the VELS
The VCAA has developed two resources to assist schools to place sexuality education in the context of the VELS. These are:
- ‘Where does sexuality education fit within the VELS?’ – a PowerPoint presentation
- Sexuality Education Curriculum Audit Tool.
Safety and sensitive issues in Health and Physical Education
This advice highlights the need for appropriate procedures, guidelines and documentation when teaching sensitive and personal issues and practical activities to ensure the physical, social and emotional safety of individual students at all times.
Assessment
Standards and Progression points
This resource supports teachers in making on-balance judgments about student achievement for use on school systems’ reporting software.
Assessment maps (Annotated student work)
The assessment maps are a tool to help teachers assess student work using the Victorian Essential Learning Standards. They provide a range of annotated student work samples that can be used by teachers by teaching in conjunction with the progression point examples to develop a common understanding of the standards and make consistent, on-balance judgments about student achievement.
Background
Background to the VELS – Health and Physical Education domain
This provides background information to the domain including the relationship between the Victorian Essential Learning Standards and the previous curriculum guidelines for Victorian schools, the Curriculum and Standards Framework (CSF) II.
Other Resources
Prep to Year 10 Resources – Health and Physical Education
Health and Physical Education domain (www.education.vic.gov.au/studentlearning/teachingresources/health/default.htm)
This Department of Education web page contains links to Health and Physical Education-related learning and teaching support materials and professional learning support, and identifies current research in the area of Health and Physical Education.
