WHAKATAUKI:

He oranga ngakau, He pikinga waiora 

Positive feelings in your heart, Will raise your sense of self worth

KAUPAPA:

• Movement is integral to the human experience. It facilitates a lifelong understanding of our bodies, contributes to our hauora, and allows us to live physically active lives. Movement is affected by and affects who we are, how we experience and interact with others, and our relationship to and place in society.

• Physical Education develops the social, emotional, intellectual, and cultural capabilities of ākonga. These capabilities inform the ways in which ākonga understand tikanga in movement contexts, provide diverse ways of participating in physical activities, and contribute to movement’s wider benefits to hauora.

• At each Curriculum level, ākonga learn to move and experience movement by participating fully in physical activities. As a result of this learning taking place in diverse settings, ākonga come to understand and experience diverse perspectives on movement.

• Physical Education invites ākonga to engage with how movement affects them, those around them, and their wider communities. Ākonga recognise and understand the challenges which affect participation in movement, and respond to any movement barriers with full and active participation. Through their learning journey in Physical Education, ākonga will develop and refine their understanding of what it means to be physically educated and promote physical education throughout their lives.

YEAR 12 PREREQUISITES:    

• 15 Credits in NCEA: Year 11 Physical Education
  
  

YEAR 13 PREREQUISITES: 

• Completion of NCEA: Year 12 Physical Education

YEAR 12 COURSE CONTENT:

There are three main topic areas within the Year 12 course.

• Outdoor Education

Students look at health and safety issues related to physical activities and secondly attempt to apply it in an outdoor education setting.   They will be required to carry out risk assessment activities in relation to rock climbing and then apply them in the field.  

• Issues in sport:

Students will be required to describe the sociological significance of a sporting event, physical activity or festival and how these factors affect them, others and society.

• Movement Education:

Students will take responsibility for organising and participating successfully in a variety of contrasting activities.  Students will use their knowledge in biomechanics, anatomy, methods and principles of training, skill learning and sports psychology to describe and relate to their chosen activities.

YEAR 13 COURSE CONTENT

Students will be required to participate in a variety of physical skills and social learning experiences with a focus on developing an increased sense of community and personal wellbeing.  Students will be required to apply a range of theoretical concepts and physical skills learnt in a range of increasingly challenging environments. These include:  class based activities, Three Peaks race, Dunedin Half Marathon, Te Anau camp, badminton practical and the students choice of a sport to biomechanically analyse.

• Hauora/ Health and well being:

Students will be required to reflect on factors influencing their personal Hauora by evaluating their sporting experiences.  

• Issues in sport:

Students will carry out a research activity in this unit.  The topic will be based around physical activity and childhood obesity. (Optional Unit)

• Movement Education:

Students will be involved in mountain running and badminton.  This will require students to spend some of their own time doing activities and  will involve a cost for entry fees.  

• Outdoor Education:

Students will plan, participate in and evaluate an outdoor education experience in the Te Anau area based around sea kayaking.

YEAR 12 COSTS:

• Rock climbing practical, $120

YEAR 13 COSTS:

• Three Peaks Race, $90-105 (Depends on time of entry) and/or Dunedin Half Marathon, $65-80 (Depends on time of entry)

• Te Anau Camp, $320

Year 12 Achievement standards

Year 13 Achievement standards

FUTURE STUDIES / CAREER OPTIONS:

• Physical education may lead to further studies at tertiary level including exercise sport science, outdoor education, tourism, sport management and health sciences.  Future career options may include work in these areas but the skills and knowledge gained will also be applicable to a variety of other vocations.