Physical Education

At Grahamvale Primary School all students participate in a one-hour PE lesson taught by a specialist teacher.

The PE and sports program provides a fun, engaging and stimulating learning environment with a focus on maximum participation and physical activity, catering for all students’ needs and on developing healthy lifelong habits and attitudes towards physical activity.

Students move and use their bodies to develop, practise and refine motor skills, balance, strength and coordination. Through minor games and activities, students are challenged to practise skills, including social skills, in simple game situations.

Fundamental movement skills address the development of fundamental movement skills that provide the foundation for competent and confident participation in a range of physical activities which include:

• locomotor and non-locomotor skills- rolling, balancing, sliding, jogging, running, leaping, jumping, hopping, dodging, galloping and skipping.
• object control skills- bouncing, throwing, catching, kicking, striking.

Challenge and adventure activities address how individuals participate in a variety of physical activities designed to challenge them physiologically, behaviourally and socially in diverse contexts and environments.

Challenge and adventure activities include initiative games, movement challenges (as individuals and in teams or groups), recreational activities and navigational challenges.

Lifelong physical activities address how participation in physical activity can enhance health-related fitness and wellbeing across the lifespan and includes individuals and group fitness activities and active recreation activities.

Health benefits of physical activity address the influence and impact regular physical activity participation has on individual and community health and wellbeing. The curriculum supports students to develop knowledge, understanding and skills to make active choices and to explore the range of influences on physical activity participation and choices.

Our Physical Education classes develop students’ skills to a high standard and in a wide range of sports and activities. Students have numeraous opportunities to participate in extra events and activities including our whole school athletic carnival and cross country.