Health & Physical Education, Camps and Swimming

Health and Physical Education

At Sunshine Harvester Primary School, Health and PE are delivered as separate Specialist classes within the Specialists Program. Students participate in each class for one hour per week. Lessons are targeted and focused on the students' points of need and align with the current Victorian Curriculum. In HPE classes, various activities along with sports and games are learned with the purpose of enhancing and developing sports and life skills.

In Year Foundation, One and Two, students are primarily focused on developing their fundamental motor skills through targeted activities and games in PE lessons. Throwing, catching, running, bouncing and kicking are emphasised as key fundamental motor skills for development. In Health sessions, various topics such as water and sun safety, hygiene, nutrition, the human body and how it changes, are key themes.

Our Year Three, Four, Five and Six students are introduced to a wide variety of sports and games. These sports and games continue the refinement of fundamental motor skills and allow for developing personal and social characteristics such as fairness, teamwork and a growth mindset, along with increasing fitness, endurance and sports knowledge. As a part of the Health curriculum, students learn, review and discuss various initiatives and safety messages, different community centres and groups that promote health, revisit Sunsmart and Water Safety, investigate the effects of medicines, drugs, smoking and alcohol, and research the various systems of the human body.

In addition to the Year Six PE curriculum, students participate in various interschool sports as a part of the Sporting Schools Victoria competition.

The interschool sports that are learnt in class and played against other local schools are:

Term One

• Basketball
• Soccer

• Tennis

• Cricket

Term Two

• Australian Rules Football
• Tee Ball
• Netball
• Newcomb
• Cross Country Running

Term Three

• Athletics

Camps

Students can attend school camps from Year Three to Year Six. At these camps, there is an emphasis on outdoor education, using and developing a range of interpersonal and social skills in an unfamiliar setting with a wide range of peers and staff. Camp settings vary from year to year. Camps have provided our students with a great opportunity to develop their independence and sense of responsibility. Students take part in various activities. These may include canoeing, giant swing, flying fox, low ropes course, mountain biking amongst many others.

Swimming

The swimming program at Sunshine Harvester Primary School runs during Term One. The Year Three to Six students attend near the beginning of Term One, while the Year Foundation, One and Two students attend towards the end of Term One. Students have access to one full week of 45-minute swimming lessons.