Health and physical education / Year 5 and 6 / Movement and Physical Activity / Understanding movement

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Curriculum content descriptions

Participate in physical activities designed to enhance fitness, and discuss the impact regular participation can have on health and wellbeing (ACPMP064)

Elaborations
  • creating and participating in a fitness circuit designed to improve health-related fitness components
  • demonstrating and describing safe stretching activities which maintain and develop flexibility
  • examining the benefits of physical activity to social health and mental wellbeing
  • participating in a range of physical activities and exploring their health, skill and fitness benefits
  • examining and describing health-related and skill-related components of fitness
General capabilities
  • Literacy Literacy
  • Personal and social capability Personal and social capability
ScOT terms

Wellbeing,  Physical fitness

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