Kindergarten – Grade 2
Running, jumping, throwing, catching, balance, rhythm and cooperative games.
Arts, Health & Wellbeing
Physical Education & Sport
Grade bands served: Kindergarten through Grade 12
Physical Education develops motor skills, fitness, sportsmanship and lifelong activity habits. Early grades focus on fundamental movement, coordination and cooperative games; middle grades introduce organised sport, rules, strategy and personal fitness tracking; high-school learners take responsibility for personal fitness planning, officiating, coaching younger learners and understanding exercise science basics.
Why this subject matters
Physical activity improves health, concentration and discipline, and sport builds teamwork and resilience that transfer to work and study.
Overall learning goals
- • Develop fundamental and sport-specific movement skills.
- • Maintain personal fitness.
- • Play fairly and cooperatively.
- • Understand the body's response to exercise.
- • Adopt lifelong activity habits.
Core competencies & skills
- • Motor skills
- • Fitness and endurance
- • Teamwork and sportsmanship
- • Strategy and rules
- • Safety and injury prevention
Scope by grade band
Grades 3–5
Skill development in football, athletics and other sports, rules, fitness circuits and fair play.
Grades 6–8
Team sports and tactics, personal fitness testing and goal setting, and officiating basics.
Grades 9–12
Fitness planning, exercise science basics, leadership through coaching and organising, and competitive and recreational sport.
Typical learning activities
- • Skill drills
- • Team games and tournaments
- • Fitness circuits
- • Athletics events
- • Officiating practice
Project examples
- • Personal fitness plan with tracked progress
- • Organise an inter-class tournament
- • Coach a younger team
- • Sports-day event management
Assessment methods
- • Skill performance assessment
- • Fitness progress tracking
- • Participation and sportsmanship
- • Leadership in organising events
Real-world & career connections
- • Coaching and sports management
- • Physiotherapy and fitness
- • Event organisation
- • Teaching
FutureTech & AI integration
Learners track activity data, analyse simple performance statistics and study how data is used in modern sport.
Expected learner outcomes
- • Graduates maintain and can plan personal fitness.
- • Graduates lead or officiate organised sport.