Health and Physical Education

The Health and Physical Education curriculum comprises two strands: Personal, Social and Community Health and Movement and Physical Activity.
Health and Physical Education aims to develop the knowledge, understanding and skills to enable students to:

• access, evaluate and apply appropriate information and resources to take positive action to protect, enhance and advocate for their own and others' health and wellbeing across their lifespan;
• develop and use skills and strategies to promote a sense of personal identity and wellbeing, and to build and manage respectful relationships;
• acquire, apply and evaluate movement skills, concepts and strategies to respond confidently, competently and creatively in a variety of physical activity contexts and settings;
• engage in and enjoy regular movement-based learning experiences and understand and appreciate their significance to personal, social, cultural, environmental and health practices and outcomes; and
• analyse how varied and changing personal and contextual factors shape their understanding of, and opportunities for, health and physical activity locally, regionally and globally.

All classes from Year 1-6 at Maylands Peninsula Primary School receive Physical Education instruction from a specialist teacher to ensure each child develops the early fundamental skills of movement developing into more complex skills and game strategies. During instruction, students participate in skill drills and game situations. Throughout the year, our students in Years 5 & 6 participate in weekly inter-faction sport, where they have the opportunity to put the skills learnt in Physical Education classes into practice in such sports as basketball, soccer, football, netball, cricket and T-ball. Our students also have the opportunity to participate in house athletics and swimming carnivals, as too, interschool athletics and cross country carnivals. The values of sportsmanship are also very much encouraged during instruction and all sporting carnivals.

Dance - Years 1-6

Our Primary students are encouraged to participate in a fee-based dance program. The very popular EduDance program, provides students with the opportunity to showcase their dance skills to our school community via an evening performance in Term 2.