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7–10Personal Development, Health and Physical Education 7–10 Syllabus

Record of changes
Implementation from 2027
Expand for detailed implementation advice

Content

Life Skills

Life Skills for Stage 4/5

Through collaborative curriculum planning, it may be decided that Life Skills outcomes and content are the most appropriate option for some students with intellectual disability.

Safe, active and healthy lifestyle choices
Enhancing wellbeing through healthy lifestyles
  • Recognise the components of a balanced lifestyle

  • Identify the dimensions of health

  • Recognise the benefits of leading a healthy lifestyle

  • Identify factors that influence healthy lifestyle choices

  • Recognise strategies to overcome barriers to a healthy and active lifestyle

  • Recognise how physical activity enhances health and wellbeing

  • Develop and use strategies to manage health and wellbeing

  • Explore a range of Cultural connections to mind, body and spirit for health and wellbeing, including bush foods for Aboriginal Peoples

  • Identify the benefits of being active in outdoor and natural environments on the dimensions of health

  • Identify the variety of foods required for a healthy balanced diet

  • Develop a specific eating plan for a range of lifestyles and needs

  • Explore how healthy food and drink choices enhance health and wellbeing

  • Develop and use personalised strategies to communicate health and wellbeing needs

Managing risk and enhancing safety
  • Recognise safe and unsafe situations offline and online

  • Recognise the physical and emotional warning signs that may indicate safe or unsafe situations offline and online

  • Recognise and respond to signs and symbols that support safety

  • Recognise how others can influence risk-taking behaviours

  • Recognise safe and unsafe interactions in a range of situations

  • Recognise trusted people and support services

  • Develop and use protective behaviours to enhance health and safety in a range of situations

  • Develop strategies to make informed decisions to mitigate and manage risk-taking behaviours

  • Identify rights and responsibilities as a pedestrian, a passenger, a driver and a rider when using the road

  • Develop and demonstrate road safety behaviours

  • Develop and demonstrate sun-safe practices

  • Identify basic water survival strategies and techniques

  • Recognise emergency situations and demonstrate strategies to enhance their own and others’ safety

  • Identify methods of contraception

  • Identify where to find support for decision-making about sexual health

  • Identify safe and unsafe use of drugs

  • Identify risks associated with the use of alcohol and other drugs

  • Recognise the positive and negative influences of drugs on health and wellbeing

  • Recognise signs of addiction and how to access support

Thinking critically to enhance health and wellbeing
  • Identify support services that promote safe, healthy and balanced lifestyles

  • Identify how to access health information and support services

  • Explore the credibility and reliability of sources of information to support making informed decisions

  • Develop skills to make informed decisions about health and wellbeing

  • Explore the contextual factors that influence health-related decisions

  • Recognise the influence of media on actions and decisions

  • Use health information, products and services to plan for safety, health and wellbeing

  • Communicate information and ideas to enhance health and wellbeing

  • Demonstrate an understanding of protective behaviours to manage risk and enhance safety, using oral, visual, written or multimodal texts

  • Reflect on a range of physical activities and communicate how they meet personal needs and interests

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