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follow rules to promote fair play in a range of physical activities (AC9HPFM04)

Elaborations
  • identifying and describing actions that would constitute fair and unfair play while participating in minor games
  • demonstrating how to play fairly in a range of minor games and play situations
  • discussing rules of different games that relate to safety, boundaries and appropriate use of equipment
General capabilities
  • Ethical understanding Ethical understanding
  • Personal and social capability Personal and Social capability
ScOT terms

Games,  Physical activity,  Fair play

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Work sample Foundation Year Health and Physical Education: Rolling rally

  • TLF-IDA008029
  • Learning areasHealth and physical education
  • Year levels F
  • Updated13/05/2026
  • AC version 8
  • AC version 9

This work sample demonstrates evidence of student learning in relation to aspects of the Health and Physical Education achievement standards for Foundation. In this video, two students select and mark boundaries of the playing area and identify that the markers form the boundary of the game. They perform two-handed strikes ...

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‘Physical Education – Essential skills for primary teachers’ online course

  • TLF-IDA002994
  • Learning areasHealth and physical education
  • Year levels F; 1; 2; 3; 4; 5; 6
  • Updated11/05/2026
  • AC version 8
  • AC version 9

The aim of this online refresher course is to enhance the confidence and competence of generalist primary school teachers in delivering purposeful and engaging PE. The course aims to improve student learning in schools by addressing critical challenges. It tackles the decline in physical education and the rise of sedentary ...

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Tag Games

  • TLF-IDA007111
  • Learning areasHealth and physical education
  • Year levels F; 1; 2; 3; 4; 5; 6; 7; 8; 9; 10
  • Updated29/04/2026
  • AC version 8
  • AC version 9

This resource consists of a suite of downloadable tag games. Each game focuses on different skills, such as teamwork, throwing, catching, balance and coordination. A visual model of each game is provided, as is an outline of what equipment is required and how to set the game up. There are also simple instructions on how ...

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Protect the Pin

  • TLF-IDA007106
  • Learning areasHealth and physical education
  • Year levels F; 1; 2; 3; 4; 5; 6; 7; 8; 9; 10
  • Updated29/04/2026
  • AC version 8
  • AC version 9

This game focuses on coordination and teamwork. The aim of the game is for players to knock over the other team’s pins, whilst protecting their team’s pins. The resource includes an outline of what equipment is required and how to set the game up, with an accompanying visual. There are simple instructions on how to play ...

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Crab football clearout

  • TLF-IDA007105
  • Learning areasHealth and physical education
  • Year levels F; 1; 2; 3; 4
  • Updated29/04/2026
  • AC version 8
  • AC version 9

This game focuses on coordination and teamwork. With the playing area divided into two areas (“beaches”), and soft balls evenly scattered across them, students must move like a crab to protect their beach and clear the balls into the other team’s beach. The resource includes an outline of what equipment is required and ...

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Dragon Tails

  • TLF-IDA007100
  • Learning areasHealth and physical education
  • Year levels F; 1; 2; 3; 4; 5; 6
  • Updated29/04/2026
  • AC version 8
  • AC version 9

This game focuses on movement and strategy. Players work individually to protect their “dragon tails” (bibs) from others, and at the same time take other players’ tails. The resource includes an outline of what equipment is required and how to set the game up, with an accompanying visual. There are simple instructions on ...

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Traffic lights

  • TLF-IDA007099
  • Learning areasHealth and physical education
  • Year levels F; 1; 2
  • Updated29/04/2026
  • AC version 8
  • AC version 9

This game focuses on movement and following rules. Students respond to called-out instructions, performing various movements. The resource includes an outline of what equipment is required and how to set the game up, with an accompanying visual. There are simple instructions on how to play and differentiate the game. This ...

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Five easy to play yard games for young students - ABC Education

  • TLF-IDA006112
  • Learning areasHealth and physical education
  • Year levels F; 1; 2
  • Updated26/11/2024
  • AC version 8
  • AC version 9

This resource outlines five outdoor games for young students: 'Fruit Salad,' 'Jump in, Jump out,' 'Scarecrow Tiggy,' 'Astronauts vs Aliens,' and 'Memory Tag.' Each game is designed to encourage active breaks and uses minimal equipment. The games come with simple instructions, variations, and management tips for teachers. ...

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Yulunga: wirrwuyu

  • TLF-IDM006591
  • Learning areasHealth and physical education
  • Year levels F; 1; 2; 3; 4; 5; 6; 7; 8; 9; 10; 11; 12
  • Updated07/05/2026

As in various other cultures, stone skipping (throwing) along a surface of water was played by Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. On Dunk Island in Queensland, the throwing of cuttle-fish (krooghar) bones was observed. The bones were thrown along the surface of the water like ‘skipping stones’ and ...

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Yulunga: inkanyi

  • TLF-IDM006572
  • Learning areasHealth and physical education
  • Year levels F; 1; 2; 3; 4; 5; 6; 7; 8; 9
  • Updated07/05/2026

Although not a universal activity, athletic events were common. In a part of central Australia the children would have running races together. The race was a cooperative effort. According to age, running speed and fitness levels, runners started at different distances and all players attempted to finish together. This activity ...

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Yulunga: tarnambai

  • TLF-IDM006573
  • Learning areasHealth and physical education
  • Year levels F; 1; 2; 3; 4; 5; 6; 7; 8; 9; 10; 11; 12
  • Updated07/05/2026

Although not a universal activity, athletics-type events were common. On Tiwi (Bathurst) Island the children collected the seed heads of the ‘spring rolling grass’ (Spinifex hirsutis) that grew on the sand hills near the coast. These were taken to the beach and released. The children allowed these to be blown along by the ...

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Yulunga: turi turi

  • TLF-IDM006574
  • Learning areasHealth and physical education
  • Year levels F; 1; 2; 3
  • Updated07/05/2026

In the northwest-central area of Queensland, the Maidhargari children made a type of skippingrope (turi turi) from the long roots of the Bauhinia (Queensland bean tree), or white-gum, which grew near the water’s edge. A vine rope was used in the same way by Wogadj children on the Daly River in the Northern Territory. This ...

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Yulunga: brajerack

  • TLF-IDM006566
  • Learning areasHealth and physical education
  • Year levels F; 1; 2; 3
  • Updated07/05/2026

Many different types of hide-and-seek games were played in Australia and the Torres Strait Islands. A game played in one part of Victoria in the latter part of the 1800s was called brajerack (the wild man). It was essentially a game of hide and seek whereby a player would hide in a wombat hole and would need to be dug out ...

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Yulunga: wana

  • TLF-IDM006553
  • Learning areasHealth and physical education
  • Year levels F; 1; 2; 3; 4; 5; 6
  • Updated07/05/2026

The young Noongar girls in the southwest of Western Australia played many skill games. In one of these a short stick was placed on the ground and girls attempted to hit the stick while one girl defended it using her wana (digging stick). Players use an underarm throw to hit a target, which is defended by the player with ...

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Yulunga: koabangan

  • TLF-IDM006560
  • Learning areasHealth and physical education
  • Year levels F; 1; 2; 3; 4; 5; 6
  • Updated07/05/2026

A game called koabangan was a finding-object game observed being played in the early 1900s by the Kokominni boys of north Queensland. The object commonly used was a goanna claw, but other objects were also used. A player hides an object in a designated area and the other players attempt to find it. The Yulunga: Traditional ...

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Yulunga: wabbyn

  • TLF-IDM006564
  • Learning areasHealth and physical education
  • Year levels F; 1; 2; 3
  • Updated07/05/2026

The Injibandi people of Western Australia had many guessing games. Wabbagunja kambong, wabbyn, ngabbungee jenarnung, kambugenjin were some of the names of their guessing games. Guessing games were often played around the campfire after the day’s hunting was over. Women might also play these guessing games among themselves ...

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Yulunga: thirring-nunna

  • TLF-IDM006568
  • Learning areasHealth and physical education
  • Year levels F; 1; 2; 3; 4; 5; 6
  • Updated07/05/2026

This hide-and-seek game was described as being played by the Aboriginal children in an unidentified part of Queensland. It was called thirring-nunna (Where are we?). It is a hide-and-seek game where all players hide from a player who looks for them. The Yulunga: Traditional Indigenous Games resource was developed to provide ...

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Yulunga: mer kolap

  • TLF-IDM006587
  • Learning areasHealth and physical education
  • Year levels F; 1; 2; 3; 4; 5; 6; 7; 8; 9; 10; 11; 12
  • Updated07/05/2026

This object-throwing game was observed being played in the Torres Strait on Mer Island in the nineteenth century. More recent versions have been observed. This version of an object-throwing game is a relay event. The Yulunga: Traditional Indigenous Games resource was developed to provide all Australians with a greater understanding ...

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Yulunga: sanbaing

  • TLF-IDM006597
  • Learning areasHealth and physical education
  • Year levels F; 1; 2; 3; 4; 5; 6; 7; 8; 9; 10; 11; 12
  • Updated07/05/2026

In parts of Papua New Guinea and the Torres Strait Islands players of both genders were observed playing a game of sand-ball throwing. It required a great deal of expertise to perform successfully and was often played all day. Players make ‘bombs’ out of sand and throw (lob) them into the water. The Yulunga: Traditional ...

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Yulunga: yiri

  • TLF-IDM006598
  • Learning areasHealth and physical education
  • Year levels F; 1; 2; 3; 4; 5; 6; 7; 8; 9; 10; 11; 12
  • Updated07/05/2026

A spear game was recorded being played by the boys at Ulladulla in New South Wales. Small spears were thrown at pieces of wood, which were placed into running water. On Dunk Island in Queensland the boys used wood chips and pieces of bark floating on the water, or threw at small fish. This is a throwing-practice game played ...

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