Looking for Meaningful Connections in Health and Physical Education Ali Schofield, Diocesan School for Girls. Chantelle Fisher, Epsom Girls Grammar School

Overview Introduction Sharing our Practice Sharing your Practice Where to now?

Introduction Historically -Separate HPE teachers - No Health The Change Curriculum – Currently -Predominately the same teacher -Lack of parity in time

Sharing the Practice Possible connections – alongside at the same time HealthPhysical Education Personal IdentityAll About us Drug EducationWater safety Friendships, relationships, managing friendships Game On Sexuality Education Body Messages Challenge Me/ dance Sports Education modelDemonstrating assertive skills, listening skills, problem solving, negotiation, conflict situation etc Cooperative learning model Social responsibility model Level 1 HPE option Course designed for the athlete on and off the field

Possible connections- interwoven Messages about physical activity Themes -the body, sexism, school culture, youth culture Societal influences -media, peers, family, popular view, advertising etc Body image Perfect body stereotypes Challenging the media stereotypes through sport, advertising etc Consequences of achieving perfect body Promotin g inclusive body images in school community

What else is possible? Share what connections you have already? What worked and what didn’t work Enablers eg being flexible, open minded Barriers eg timetable; teacher only teaching one subject; not being flexible to teach both HPE Solutions Think about what could be possible?

Where to now? Sharing back possibilities