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K–6Personal Development, Health and Physical Education K–6 Syllabus

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Implementation from 2027
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Stage 2

Movement skill and physical activity

All bodies are diverse and move in different ways. Some students with physical disability may do this through adjustments, including assistive devices. 

Complementary content for fundamental movement skills has been provided to enable some students with physical disability to develop movement skills focusing on ability. Teachers use the fundamental movement skills content in combination with complementary content to meet the needs of individual students. 

Cooperate and communicate for teamwork in physical activities
  • Demonstrate and describe how roles in teams contribute to team goals

  • Demonstrate fair and inclusive play to enhance teamwork and communication when creating physically active games

  • Demonstrate skills and strategies in target, net and court, striking and fielding, territory games and modified sport

  • Pass and receive a ball at different levels and directions in games and modified sport

  • Demonstrate how to defend and move into space to create an advantage in games and modified sport

  • Participate in Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander games and activities and identify the Cultural connections

  • Identify and engage in games or sport from around the world and describe how participation can bring people together

  • Propose and participate in physical activities that promote enjoyment and motivation to be physically active in the community

  • Promote ways to be inclusive in physical activities to cater for the diverse ways people move

Consolidating fundamental movement skills improves health and wellbeing
  • Apply static and dynamic balances at different levels

  • Combine fundamental movement skills with smooth transitions in games, modified sport and physical activities

  • Move and adjust the body to catch balls and objects of various shapes and sizes

  • Throw underarm or overarm towards a target at different levels with control

  • Kick a ball at different levels over various distances

  • Strike using an implement to propel an object over various distances and towards a target

Complementary content for Consolidating fundamental movement skills improves health and wellbeing
  • Demonstrate a personal posture in a range of contexts

  • Transition smoothly between movements for various purposes, including games, modified sport or physical activity

  • Move the lower body to improve mobility, posture and stability

  • Receive objects with control

  • Move the upper body to reach, push and pull with control

  • Send an object in an intended direction

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