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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 3

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. 

Create, communicate and collaborate in physical activities

  • Participate in and explain how regular and frequent physical activity enhances fitness and wellbeing

  • Understand and negotiate roles and responsibilities in physical activities

  • Collaborate to create physically active games, incorporating rules and scoring systems that are fair and inclusive

  • Refine and apply skills and strategies in target, net and court, striking and fielding, and territory games and sport

  • Transition between movement skills and select strategies to pass and receive a ball in games and sport

  • Transfer defensive and offensive strategies to different movement situations

  • Participate in Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander games and activities and explain how the movement skills can be applied in other contexts

  • Participate in sports from around the world and research how the Olympic Games, Paralympic Games and international sporting events provide opportunities for unity

  • Investigate and engage in physical activities to increase enjoyment and motivation to be physically active in the community

  • Investigate physical activity opportunities in Australia that cater for the diverse ways in which people move

Refining fundamental movement skills enhances health and wellbeing

  • Transition between static and dynamic balances with control

  • Refine fundamental movement combinations with control and precision in games, sport and physical activities

  • Catch to maintain possession or gain advantage in games and sport

  • Throw underarm or overarm to maintain possession or gain advantage in games and sport

  • Kick a ball to maintain possession or gain advantage in games and sport

  • Strike to strategically propel an object at different levels towards a target or space using an implement in games and sport

Complementary content for Refining fundamental movement skills enhances health and wellbeing

  • Demonstrate posture that is personally challenging in a range of contexts

  • Combine movements with control and precision for various purposes, including games, sport or physical activity

  • Move the lower body to enhance mobility, posture and stability for various purposes, including games and sport

  • Receive and maintain possession of objects for various purposes, including games and sport

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

  • Propel an object at different levels towards a target or space in games and sport

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