Curriculum+Level+8+Health+and+Physical+Education

Curriculum levels

=Level Eight Health and Physical Education=

Development
Students will:

Personal growth and development
• Critically evaluate a range of qualitative and quantitative data to devise strategies to meet their current and future needs for well-being.

Regular physical activity
• Critically examine commercial products and programmes that promote physical activity and relate this to personal participation in programmes intended to meet their current well-being needs.

Safety management
• Critically analyse dilemmas and contemporary ethical issues that infl uence their own health and safety and that of other people.

Personal identity
• Critically analyse the impacts that conceptions of personal, cultural, and national identity have on people’s well-being.

Movement Concepts and Motor Skills
Students will:

Movement skills
• Devise, apply, and evaluate strategies to improve physical activity performance for themselves and others.

Positive attitudes
• Devise, apply, and appraise strategies through which they and other people can participate responsibly in challenging physical situations.

Science and technology
• Critically analyse and experience the application of scientifi c and technological knowledge and resources to physical activity in a range of environments.

Challenges and social and cultural factors
• Devise and apply strategies to ensure that social and cultural needs are met in personal and group physical activities.

Relationships with Other People
Students will:

Relationships
• Critically analyse the dynamics of effective relationships in a range of social contexts.

Identity, sensitivity, and respect
• Critically analyse attitudes, values, and behaviours that contribute to conflict and identify and describe ways of creating more harmonious relationships.

Interpersonal skills
• Analyse and evaluate attitudes and interpersonal skills that enable people to participate fully and effectively as community members in various situations.

Healthy Communities and Environments
Students will:

Societal attitudes and values
• Critically analyse societal attitudes and practices and legislation influencing contemporary health and sporting issues, in relation to the need to promote mentally healthy and physically safe communities.

Community resources
• Establish and justify priorities for equitable distribution of available health and recreational resources and advocate change where necessary.

Rights, responsibilities, and laws
• Demonstrate the use of health promotion strategies by implementing a plan of action to enhance the well-being of the school, community, or environment.

People and the environment
• Critically analyse the interrelationships between people, industry, technology, and legislation on aspects of environmental health.