Online safety: Health and Physical Education

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Health and Physical Education

The Australian Curriculum: Health and Physical Education (HPE) provides opportunities for students to develop abilities to access, evaluate and synthesise information and take positive action to protect, enhance and advocate for themselves and others. Students are supported to build, engage with, and manage online environments, through the development of personal, behavioural, social and cognitive skills and strategies, to promote a sense of personal identity and wellbeing.  

As media continues to transform our lives and change the way we communicate, students will continue to require, acquire and use critical inquiry skills to research, analyse and understand the influences on their own and others’ health, safety and wellbeing.

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Communicating and interacting for health and wellbeing

Content descriptions with elaborations:

Evaluate situations and propose appropriate emotional responses and then reflect on possible outcomes of different responses (ACPPS094)

  • proposing strategies for managing emotional responses and resolving conflict in a family or social situation or online environment
  • evaluating situations where an individual may react with extreme emotion and reflecting on the impact that this response may have on the situation and/or their relationships
  • analysing interactions where emotional responses may not be immediately apparent and reflecting on the possible consequences of not recognising emotions involved

Communicating and interacting for health and wellbeing

Content descriptions with elaborations:

Evaluate situations and propose appropriate emotional responses and then reflect on possible outcomes of different responses (ACPPS094)

  • proposing strategies for managing emotional responses and resolving conflict in a family or social situation or online environment
  • evaluating situations where an individual may react with extreme emotion and reflecting on the impact that this response may have on the situation and/or their relationships
  • analysing interactions where emotional responses may not be immediately apparent and reflecting on the possible consequences of not recognising emotions involved

Being healthy, safe and active

Content descriptions with elaborations:

Propose, practise and evaluate responses in situations where external influences may impact on their ability to make healthy and safe choices (ACPPS092)

  • critiquing images and messages in the media that portray what it means to have a good time and be fun to be around, and evaluating how these images can be interpreted
  • evaluating the influence of personal, social, environmental and cultural factors on decisions and actions young people take in relation to their health, safety and wellbeing

Communicating and interacting for health and wellbeing

Content descriptions with elaborations:

Evaluate situations and propose appropriate emotional responses and then reflect on possible outcomes of different responses (ACPPS094)

  • proposing strategies for managing emotional responses and resolving conflict in a family or social situation or online environment
  • evaluating situations where an individual may react with extreme emotion and reflecting on the impact that this response may have on the situation and/or their relationships
  • analysing interactions where emotional responses may not be immediately apparent and reflecting on the possible consequences of not recognising emotions involved

Being healthy, safe and active

Content descriptions with elaborations:

Propose, practise and evaluate responses in situations where external influences may impact on their ability to make healthy and safe choices (ACPPS092)

  • critiquing images and messages in the media that portray what it means to have a good time and be fun to be around, and evaluating how these images can be interpreted
  • evaluating the influence of personal, social, environmental and cultural factors on decisions and actions young people take in relation to their health, safety and wellbeing

Communicating and interacting for health and wellbeing

Content descriptions with elaborations:

Evaluate situations and propose appropriate emotional responses and then reflect on possible outcomes of different responses (ACPPS094)

  • proposing strategies for managing emotional responses and resolving conflict in a family or social situation or online environment
  • evaluating situations where an individual may react with extreme emotion and reflecting on the impact that this response may have on the situation and/or their relationships
  • analysing interactions where emotional responses may not be immediately apparent and reflecting on the possible consequences of not recognising emotions involved