Health and physical education / Year 3 and 4 / Personal, Social and Community Health / Contributing to healthy and active communities

View on Australian Curriculum website Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority
Curriculum content descriptions

Describe strategies to make the classroom and playground healthy, safe and active spaces (ACPPS040)

Elaborations
  • identifying how regular physical activity promotes health, and recognising and accessing opportunities to be active while they are at school
  • creating promotional posters to display around the school containing positive health and physical activity messages
  • establishing a small fruit and vegetable garden for the class that can be used to create healthy lunches or snacks
  • exploring and developing responsible and sustainable classroom practices such as recycling, composting and energy saving
General capabilities
  • Literacy Literacy
  • Critical and creative thinking Critical and creative thinking
  • Personal and social capability Personal and social capability
ScOT terms

School safety,  Health promotion

Refine results by

Year level 3-4
Resource type
Learning area Health and physical education

Refine by source


      Refine by topic

      Related topic

      0 direct matches to ACPPS040

      Teacher resource

      Student Wellbeing Hub

      • TLF-IDM013091

      This website, based on the National Safe Schools Framework, offers resources to ensure Australian schools provide a safe and supportive learning environment for all students, free from harassment, aggression, violence and bullying. The site addresses the emerging challenges of cybersafety and cyberbullying and focuses on ...

      View detailsView resource
      Teacher resource

      TrackSAFE Education Primary School Resources: Year 3, Year 4 Health & Physical Education

      • TLF-IDM025089

      This unit of work focuses students on becoming aware of unsafe situations and using self-talk to keep themselves safe. Students identify strategies to avoid unsafe situations and communicate their understandings by creating comic strips, role plays and games. Finally students are challenged to identify an idea that could ...

      View detailsView resource
      Teacher resource

      Alcohol and other drugs: professional learning module

      • TLF-IDM024868

      This professional learning module focuses on building teachers’ understanding of alcohol and other drugs and of current, evidence-informed approaches to drug and alcohol education in schools. It offers links to quality resources for teaching students the skills to build resilience and to make informed choices when they ...

      View detailsView resource
      Interactive Resource

      Legendairy every day interactive

      • TLF-IDM020381

      This is a digital interactive animated resource showing the dairy food group that is one of the five food groups that are important for good health. It features the five food groups and describes the number of serves a 4-8 year child should eat every day. The nutritional components and health benefits of consuming serves ...

      View detailsView resource
      Teacher resource

      National Safe Schools Framework: a focus on student wellbeing and student ownership

      • TLF-IDM013947

      This is a web resource to promote student involvement in creating a safe school environment. It describes four characteristics of students' contributions to a safe school and includes key practices and effective actions to enhance student wellbeing, ownership and decision-making. The resource provides a video about approaches ...

      View detailsView resource
      Teacher resource

      National Safe Schools Framework: engagement, skill development and safe school curriculum

      • TLF-IDM013946

      This is a web resource about features of learning and teaching in a safe school environment, describing five characteristics of student engagement, a safe school curriculum and cooperative and relational skills. These descriptions include key practices and effective actions to enhance student engagement, establish cooperative ...

      View detailsView resource
      Teacher resource

      Kids on the Move - Public Transport

      • TLF-IDM025081

      Module 4 is one of a series of modules on a web page. It is a sequence of learning focuses on public transport safety for middle primary students in Victoria. Students investigate the environmental and health benefits from using public transport, plan a journey using their local public transport and explore safety issues. ...

      View detailsView resource
      Teacher resource

      National Safe Schools Framework: partnerships with families and community

      • TLF-IDM013949

      This is a web resource about forming partnerships with families, community organisations and the justice system to facilitate a consistent approach to safety and wellbeing in schools. It describes four characteristics of these partnerships and includes key practices and effective actions for working with families, local ...

      View detailsView resource
      Mobile app

      Ready, Set, All Systems Go

      • TLF-IDM025295

      This mobile app consolidates health education messages about how the body systems work and factors that influence their functions such as nutrition and physical activity. It includes exploration of five body systems (nervous, circulatory, respiratory, excretory and digestive) each with a labelling exercise and an interactive ...

      View detailsView resource
      Teacher resource

      National Safe Schools Framework: leadership commitment to a safe school

      • TLF-IDM013941

      This is a web resource supporting effective leadership for building a safe school environment. It describes ten key characteristics of leadership commitment to a safe school and includes a school audit tool for assessing the extent to which schools have created and maintained a safe and supportive learning environment. ...

      View detailsView resource
      Teacher resource

      National Safe Schools Framework: policies and procedures

      • TLF-IDM013943

      This is a web resource supporting the development and implementation of clear policies and procedures, drafted, refined and reviewed in collaboration with teachers, parents, carers and students, for creating a safe school environment. The resource describes nine key characteristics of these policies and procedures and also ...

      View detailsView resource
      Teacher resource

      National Safe Schools Framework: early intervention and targeted support

      • TLF-IDM013948

      This is a web resource about identification of 'at risk' students, early intervention and targeted support to help create a safe school environment. It describes three key characteristics of this approach and includes key practices and effective actions to identify 'at risk' students and provide early intervention and support. ...

      View detailsView resource
      Teacher resource

      National Safe Schools Framework: a supportive and connected school culture

      • TLF-IDM013942

      This is a web resource promoting development of a supportive and connected school culture, an important aspect of safe schools. It describes nine characteristics of a supportive and connected school culture and includes key practices and effective actions that contribute to a safe school. The resource includes an introductory ...

      View detailsView resource