The PDHPE faculty have had a very busy, productive and enjoyable year to date. Overall, students have been keen and enthusiastic, working well in both practical and theory lessons. The PDHPE team is motivated and excited for the remainder of 2024.
Across semester one, all students in Years 7-10 PDHPE enjoy a wide variety of learning experiences in their theory and practical lessons.
Practical
Practical 7-10 PDHPE classes have focused on a variety of units this semester, including Fundamental Movement Skills (Y7), Hitting Skills (Y8), Throwing and Catching games (Y9) and Court Games (Y10). During these units, students have demonstrated some outstanding coordination and transferral of movement skills in a variety of contexts, including: volleyball, hockey, racquet sports, oz tag, ultimate frisbee, netball and basketball.
Term 2 will see all years complete the Athletics and Dance units of work, perfecting their skills and techniques in a range of track and field events, dance styles and genres.
Theory
In semester one, Year 7-10 PDHPE classes examine a range of key health and wellbeing issues in their theory units of work. These include ‘health, wellbeing and identity’ in Year 7, ‘positive relationships and online safety’ in Year 8, ‘the impact of digital/social media on our health and wellbeing’ in Year 9 and ‘determinants of health and epidemiology’ in Year 10. Students have really engaged in lessons and thought critically about health issues relevant to their lives.
Elective Courses
PDHPE electives have once again been very popular. These include: Y8 Analysing Sport/Human Movement, Y9 Physical Activity and Sport Studies (PASS) and Y10 PASS.
Year 9 and 10 PASS classes have experienced a variety of engaging and practical-based learning activities that expand on the traditional 7-10 PDHPE programs and lead students into some exciting topics such as: Body Systems/Anatomy, Australia’s Sporting Identity and Nutrition and Physical Activity.
The Year 9 PASS cohort have recently completed their Body Systems Assessment Task, with many achieving commendable results. Whilst the Year 10 cohort have been challenged by planning and delivering a coaching session in a sport of their choice. In this task they were required to coach their fellow peers in a training session they had designed. It was certainly very interesting to see how the students dealt with the “shoe being on the other foot”!!
Swimming Carnival 2024
The forecast and weather conditions did not deter our students as they turned up in numbers to participate in our 2024 Swimming Carnival. Again, we showed why Newcastle High is known for it's swimming ability, with some seriously competitive times! Well done to everyone who attended!!