HEALTH AND PHYSICAL EDUCATION

We have started 2024 with a bang! Welcoming our new year 7 students to the college has been fantastic. Students have dived straight into PE lessons with a focus on team building and cooperative challenges. Below are some photos from Mr Coghlan’s 7G and Miss Todd’s 7E PE classes having an absolute ball.  

Year 7 Health students will soon experience one of our most cherished programs, that is, Peer Support. Year 10 students from Leadership Development with Mr Uren will be planning and delivering lessons to small groups of our students in Health. The year 10’s will get to know the year 7’s and work with them to better understand a range of topics including Making Friends, Cyber Bullying, How to Seek Help and so much more! We are looking forward to this memorable chapter for our 7’s to begin! Stay tuned for photos. 

Year 8 students have just started their Respectful Relationships unit in Health. In the unit students explore topics such as being a respectful partner, types of violence, being an upstander (calling out negative behaviour). See students in 8A below discussing the characteristics of a respectful relationships. Well done to all students who got involved in the discussions.  

Year 11 students completing VCE Unit ¾ Outdoor and Environmental studies went out exploring on their first excursion last week to the Royal Botanical Gardens. Students got to learn about the historical events of Melbourne and the relationship that this creates with the outdoor environment that currently exists. Students also had the opportunity to make their own Potpourri. Potpourri is a mixture of dried, naturally fragrant plant materials used to provide a gentle natural scent, commonly in residential settings. 

Our wonderful Year 12 students completed their first Health and Human Development SAC for Unit 3 on Thursday. All students are to be commended for their study efforts, leading up to the SAC.  

Stephanie Todd 

HEALTH & PE KEY LEARNING HEAD