Physical Education
Shared responsibility, accountability and collaboration
Students in Prep and to Grade 6 students will participate in Physical Education once a week.
The Physical Education Program will develop the knowledge, understanding and skills to enable students to:
- Become physically active across their lifespan by participating in activities, sports and games that are learned with the purpose of enhancing and developing sports and life skills
- 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
- Have targeted lessons focusing on the students’ point of need and align with the current Victorian Curriculum
- Foster students’ awareness, understanding and passion for physical activity
- Improve, build and refine upon student’s knowledge on fundamental movement skills (P-4), as well as specialised movement skills (5/6)
- Allow for personal and social development of characteristics such as fairness, teamwork and growth mindset, along with increasing fitness, endurance and sports knowledge.
Expectations:
To support the Physical Education Program all students are to:
- Wear runners, have short nails and hair tied up
- Have a go at participating in the lessons
- Try their best
- Bring a labelled water bottle
- Respect their peers and all staff members
- Use sports equipment safely
Sport
All students will participate in our annual Sunshine North Primary School athletics day.
The Grade Six students partake in various interschool sports as a part of the Sporting Schools Victoria competition.
The interschool sports learnt in class and played against other local schools are:
- Australian Rules Football
- Soccer
- T-Ball
- Netball
- Basketball
- Tennis
- Newcomb
- Cricket
- Cross Country
- Athletics