Health and physical education / Year 5 and 6 / Personal, Social and Community Health / Being healthy, safe and active

Curriculum content descriptions

Plan and practise strategies to promote health, safety and wellbeing (ACPPS054)

Elaborations
  • scripting and rehearsing how to refuse drugs they may be offered, such as medication, tobacco product or alcohol
  • comparing product labels on food items or nutritional information in recipes and suggesting ways to improve the nutritional value of meals
  • proposing and implementing opportunities to increase their physical activity levels at school and at home
  • selecting and practising appropriate responses to promote safety in different situations, including water- and traffic-related situations
General capabilities
  • Critical and creative thinking Critical and creative thinking
  • Personal and social capability Personal and social capability
ScOT terms

Safety,  Wellbeing,  Health promotion

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TrackSAFE Education Primary School Resources: Year 5, Year 6 Health & Physical Education

This webpage includes a unit, students work collaboratively to develop definitions of the word 'safe' and apply their understanding by identifying strategies and design solutions to enhance safety and bring attention to the negative influences that impact young people's safety around train tracks, stations and platforms. ...

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Enhancing Student Resilience through Creating Butterfly Gardens

This resource consists of three workshops designed to engage primary students in landcare activity. Using a holistic approach, the program aims to improve wellbeing and resilience as a response to disasters by creating a butterfly garden within their school setting. The workshops take students through design and development ...

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Years 5 and 6: Resilience, rights and respectful relationships

This resource explores eight topics of social and emotional learning across Levels 5 and 6 of schooling. The topics are emotional literacy; personal and cultural strengths; positive coping; problem-solving; stress management; help-seeking; gender and identity; and positive gender relations. Each topic includes background ...

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Good citizenship

In this lesson, students will become aware of how their background and experiences affect the way they view the world and interact with other people. Students will identify and practice the behaviours of a “Good Digital Citizen”.

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Fire in ceremony

Many aspects of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander traditional ceremonies are an important part of expressing cultural beliefs. Students will explore the use of fire and plants in smoking ceremonies, and how traditions combine ritual with skill and knowledge of traditional medicine to promote connections to community ...