Health and physical education / Year 3 and 4 / Personal, Social and Community Health / Being healthy, safe and active

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Curriculum content descriptions

Identify and practise strategies to promote health, safety and wellbeing (ACPPS036)

Elaborations
  • identifying how medications and other substances can be stored safely in the home and at school
  • examining their own eating patterns by researching The Australian Guide to Healthy Eating and identifying healthier food choices
  • proposing changes they can make to their daily routines to reduce sedentary behaviour and increase physical activity levels
  • identifying and practising ways of behaving in the playground that ensure the safety of themselves and others
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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