Length: Semester

Recommended background: Successful completion of Year 9 Health & Physical Education

Content:

The Year 10 curriculum supports students to learn to apply more specialised movement skills and complex movement strategies and concepts in different movement environments. They also explore movement concepts and strategies to evaluate and refine their own and others’ movement performances. Students analyse how participation in physical activity and sport influence an individual’s identities, and explore the role participation plays in shaping cultures. The curriculum also provides opportunities for students to refine and consolidate personal and social skills in demonstrating leadership, teamwork and collaboration in a range of physical activities.

Students will complete up to four practical units covering the four categories of sports; fielding & striking, net & wall, invasion and target.

Students will gain an understanding of the systems in our body, including skeletal, muscular and cardiovascular. They will investigate sports nutrition through researching benefits of separate foods and then develop a meal plan to suit an athlete preparing for an event. Students will learn about the basic principles of biomechanics and apply these to create an investigation. They will isolate one factor of a drop punt to check the performance on the skill and use biomechanical terms to justify their results.

Assessment:

Students’ performance will be determined according to the subject’s Achievement Standards as outlined in the framework of the Australian Curriculum. Grades A to E will be used for reporting purposes.