Health and Physical Education Highlights

There is a lot happening in our Health and Physical Education classes as always, most importantly our Year 12s have recently been completing their exams. At the time of publication, our Physical Education students and Health and Human Development students completed exams last week, with VET Sport and Recreation to come this Friday. We wish them all well in any exams still to come.

This week our Year 9 Health classes had their incursion workshop with Elephant Ed. Their focus this term is on sex education and healthy relationships, with a workshop topic on ‘Sexual Relationships and Consent’. Elephant Ed delivers engaging sex education workshops that are age-appropriate, evidence-based and aim to empower our young people to make informed, positive and safe decisions about sexuality, relationships and growing up.

We received some lovely feedback from the presenters on the sessions they have delivered so far.

Our Year 10 PE classes have been enjoying a range of activities and sessions run by Proactivity. These programs offer a range of activities such as Boxercise, Aerobics and Yoga, just in time to help calm students before exams.

Some of our Year 7 PE classes have begun doing Bike Education classes. Students will be taking part in learning how to ride the bike, adjust the bike to suit them, be able to ride comfortably, and learn about the appropriate safety equipment to wear, the road rules and how to ride in a group.

The Year 11 PE students attended the St Kilda Football Club in the third week of Term 4 to participate in an Elite Energy session as part of our ongoing partnership with the club. Students were guided through a typical week of a professional footballer to see what is required to reach their peak.

Year 9 Fit For Life have continued their participation in a range of different experiences of physical activity, recently taking part in some classes on golf.

Still to Come

The Year 8 PE classes will be heading down to Mentone Lifesaving Club on Monday 2 December for six sessions of lifesaving skills which are vitally important to our students given our physical environment.

Daniel Kelly

Learning Leader: Health and Physical Education