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- Implementing the Australian Curriculum:
Health and Physical Education prepares our students
to respond competently
and confidently in a range of health
and physical activity settings.
But this requires understanding
of the learning area aims, key ideas,
achievement standards, content descriptions
and focus areas.
Today staff at Kawana Waters State College share
how they have intentionally revised the movement domain
of their HPE programme to enhance student learning outcomes.
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- Here at Kawana Waters State College,
we've been on a journey of curriculum reform
for probably the last three years,
in particular around getting the intent
of the Australian Curriculum,
improving teacher knowledge of the Australian Curriculum
and putting that into our context.
So for the HPE, it was natural for us to start
within that area.
- And so for me as the PE teacher here,
we're wanting to align the intent
of the Australian Curriculum through HPE.
We wanted to align the intent
of the Australian Curriculum HPE
at Kawana Waters State College
and prepare our students to respond confidently,
competently, and creatively
in a variety of physical activity contexts.
We also wanted to ensure the coverage
of our focus areas as per their intent.
We wanted to review unit plans
and assessment tasks to strengthen the integrity
of our address of the language,
movement skills, concepts and strategies.
This phrase is throughout the Australian Curriculum,
in achievement standards content descriptors
and focus areas.
So my job was to take the Australian Curriculum
and bring it to a school plan
so that I could expose equally
and appropriately the achievement standards,
focus areas for the Australian Curriculum
through my units of work
from a P to six focus.
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Okay, so my whole school movement sub-plan
basically looks like this document that I have here.
Okay, let me show you the curriculum map.
My curriculum map is banded in colours,
it's colour coded to show the bands
so they're easily identified.
The topic unit titles are also colour coded
to emphasise the focus area
that's being focused on within that unit.
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As a consequence of revising the physical activity context,
we needed to adjust some assessment tasks
and learning experiences.
We needed to remap
and audit the achievement standard aspects,
content descriptors and general capabilities within
and across the bands.
I also needed to develop new CARA documentation
and I needed to improvise and purchase new equipment.
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I had a few challenges
with regards to embracing not just the movement skills
but also movement concepts and strategies.
I actually had to learn more about these intents.
So units that we had already developed
were able to be adapted and meet the intent
of the curriculum.
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For me, the review and revision of the PE sub-plan
provided a deeper understanding
of the intended curriculum.
It also triggered ongoing professional reflection
and a reshaping of my own practise.
I really think my students are way more engaged
and understand more of what they're expected
to know and to do.
- And as a result,
we believe that we're not preparing our students
to respond confidently, competently,
creatively in a variety of physical activity contexts.
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- To provide a full implementation of health
and physical education at your school,
you may like to consider the following questions.
Where is your school up to in its health
and physical education improvement journey?
Is your school implementing the Australian Curriculum:
Health and Physical Education as per its intent?
Have you reviewed your planning in the movement domain?
Have you consulted the procedure for Managing Risks
in school curriculum activities, the CARA?
Ultimately, does your planning reflect the requirements
of the P to 12 Curriculum Assessment
and Reporting Framework?
To get started, or check in on your HPE improvement journey,
access the HPE Ed Studio,
C2C units and the CARA website.
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