Physical Education A

Content

This course provides opportunities to learn a range of authentic sports, theme-based games, laboratories, fitness and recreational activities. These activities are negotiated based on class size, student interest and availability of facilities. Students explore movement concepts and strategies through physical activities, promoting participation and performance outcomes. These movement concepts and strategies may include body awareness, movement quality, spatial awareness, relationships, executing movement, creating space, interactions and making decisions.

Students apply their understanding of movement concepts to evaluate aspects of their own or others’ physical activity and reflect on strategies to improve participation and performance. Technology is used to collect, collate and analyse data such as video footage, heart rates, fitness tests and game statistics. Students apply their understanding of movement concepts to evaluate the data and reflect on strategies to improve performance and participation.

Assessment

Engine room analysis  50% 

• During this practical unit, students explore, reflect on, and analyse the performance of one identified student. The analysis of the performance of movement concepts and strategies for the individual may include spatial awareness, decision-making, game understanding and/or movement strategies. Students present an engine room analysis of the individuals’ performance (e.g. a sports commentator style analysis) and reflect on how performance improvement could be achieved - 1500 words or 9-minute multimodal.

• Students explore a chosen sport's personal, social or cultural barriers and enablers. Through participation and research, they identify and explore the characteristics that are inclusive or exclusive toward certain groups of participants and propose strategies to combat the identified barriers - 1500 words or 9-minute multimodal.

Additional Information

Practical participation is an essential element of the curriculum. Students who cannot participate due to medical or health reasons require notes from parents or carers.