1. The webinar will start promptly at 3:45pm on 15 May 2019.
Welcome to ‘Unpacking the Health and Physical Education Curriculum F-6’
The webinar will start
promptly at 3:45pm on 15 May 2019.

2. Unpacking the Health and Physical Education Curriculum F–6
Dr Rachael Whittle
Curriculum Manager
Health and Physical Education

3. Victorian Curriculum HPE
Shaped by 5 interrelated propositions
Focus on educative purposes
Take a strengths-based approach
Value movement
Develop health literacy
Include a critical inquiry approach
This is important when you start thinking about how to teach the content in Health and PE

4. Navigating the website
Health and Physical Education webpage
Curriculum website

5. Victorian Curriculum Victorian Curriculum
Show how to download the relevant pages

6. Structure of the curriculum
Strands
Sub-strands
Content descriptions
Elaborations
Achievement standards
Focus areas
If you understand the structure then you can implement ANY curriculum area
Quick quiz – what are each of these elements of the curriculum referring to?

7. Achievement standards
Elaborations in Health and Physical Education
Strand
Content descriptions
Sub-strand
Unpack the elaborations – go to website and navigate
Achievement standards

8. Focus areas Twelve focus areas
Provide the context through which to teach and assess
Are not discrete topics.
When designing teaching and learning programs, a teacher may draw on more than one focus area.
For example a unit focusing on developing ‘staying healthy, safe and active’ may draw on the focus areas of Food and Nutrition, Health benefits of physical activity, mental health and wellbeing as well as Active play and minor games.
Go to website – show what each focus area is etc

10. Time?? So where and how Does HPE fit? Physical Education Health
No mandated time
Mandated time for Sport and Physical Education in government schools
Primary schools for years:
F–3: 20–30 minutes of physical education a day.
4–6: three hours per week of physical education and sport with a minimum of 50% of that time for physical education.
So where and how
Does HPE fit?

11. Planning Big picture planning Micro planning
school
curriculum level (2 year band)
Micro planning
year level
classroom level
Curriculum mapping templates for HPE

12. Give students hard copy

13. Cross-curricular units
Dance
The Arts
Home Economics
Design and Technologies
RRRR
Personal and Social Capability
In the Victorian Curriculum, dance features in both The Arts and Health and Physical Education curriculum areas. When teaching dance, these two curriculum areas complement each other.

14. Indicative Progress Indicative progress
articulates what student progress looks like, using the achievement standards in the curriculum continuum.
supports teachers to tie together what is being taught and the progress between achievement standards that has been described and demonstrated.

15. Assessment Students are assessed against the achievement standards
Assessment task must allows students to demonstrate achievement of the standard based on how well they have learnt the content
Students either achieve at a Level or are progressing toward the next Level

16. Increasing complexity
Continuum of learning
Increasing complexity
Foundation Level
Students recognise how they are growing and changing.
Levels 1-2
Students describe changes that occur as they grow older.
Levels 3-4
Students recognise strategies for managing change.
Levels 5-6
Students investigate developmental changes and transitions. 
The curriculum is set up to show a clear continuum of learning that increases in complexity
Health and Physical Education Achievement Standards

17. Reporting
Physical Education: report student achievement twice a year against the achievement standards.
Health: reported whenever it is taught within the two year band of schooling, against the achievement standards.
Health and Physical Education may be taught by more than one person. When more than one teacher teaches the same curriculum area to a student during the reporting period each teacher will make a judgment about where the student is located on the learning continuum. Assessment tasks will be linked to relevant parts of the achievement standards, enabling teachers to make informed and consistent judgments about the student’s levels of achievement. Student Reporting Requirements

18. Key messages
Use the curriculum to develop teaching and learning programs
Content descriptions and achievement standards should be read together when developing a teaching and learning program
Explicitly teach
Explicitly assess
Articulate student progression

19. Questions

20. Contact details Dr Rachael Whittle
Curriculum Manager, Health and Physical Education
Victorian Curriculum and Assessment Authority
ph: (03) II m: e:

21. Curriculum support
For advice regarding the F-10 curriculum, contact VCAA F-10 Unit: E. T