Year 10 Health & Physical Education
Health and Physical Education helps students explore the interplay of biological, sociocultural and environmental factors that support and improve health and wellbeing, along with those that put it at risk. Students will explore a range of fitness components and the various strategies that can be used to enhance them. This includes aerobic and strength training units. Students will also continue to develop and refine sport specific skills whilst also exploring the various leadership and organisational skills required to successfully plan and conduct sporting activities.
Students can choose any number of PE electives, provided their program meets the minimum Literacy, Numeracy and Science requirements.
Health and Physical Education 1
Student learning will focus on extending sport specific skills in preparation for divisional sport through modified games and sport specific drills. This is designed to explore increasingly complex skill variants and their effective transition into competitive circumstances. Students will be introduced to a range of key knowledge and skills pertaining to anatomy and the muscular system. This will be further enhanced through participation in practical activities involving the technical development of resistance training exercises.
Health and Physical Education 2
Students will be introduced to a range of key knowledge and skills pertaining to the functioning of the cardiorespiratory system at rest and during physical activity. They will develop an understanding of the acute and chronic adaptations that take place as a response to exercise over short term and long term durations. This will be further enhanced through participation in a ‘small sided game’ sports experiment that involves the manipulation of game play variables to alter certain physiological outcomes.