Health and Physical Education

Students in all year levels participate in Health and Physical Education for a minimum of 1.5 hours each week. Children engage in physical activities primarily to have fun, learn new skills and interact with others and to experience thrills and excitement in play. St. Mary's Physical Education Program is a unique health and movement education program that utilizes the physical activity domain to develop the whole child. Our school strives to offer physical activity in an environment rich and rewarding for all participants, with the aim of promoting health for body and mind.
Health and Physical Education aims to develop the knowledge, understanding and skills to enable students to:

• access, evaluate and synthesise information to take positive action to protect, enhance and advocate for their own and others’ health, well being, safety and physical activity participation across their lifespan
• develop and use personal, behavioural, social and cognitive skills and strategies to promote a sense of personal identity and well being and to build and manage respectful relationships
• acquire, apply and evaluate movement skills, concepts and strategies to respond confidently, competently and creatively in a variety of physical activity contexts and settings
• engage in and enjoy regular movement-based learning experiences and understand and appreciate their significance to personal, social, cultural, environmental and health practices and outcomes
• analyse how varied and changing personal and contextual factors shape understanding of, and opportunities for, health and physical activity locally, regionally and globally.