Year 8 - Health and Physical Education
Year 8 - Health and Physical Education
OverviewIn Year 8 Health and Physical Education, students learn how to enhance their health, safety and wellbeing and to contribute to building healthy, safe and active communities. Throughout the course, students are involved in practical and theory-based classes where they learn to understand how our body works, changes and challenges of adolescence, movement skills and patterns, drug education and nutrition.
| Units / Topics | Types of Assessment |
|---|---|
| Drugs and Alcohol | Topic Tests |
| Mental Health | Extended Responses |
| Online Safety | Practical Assessment |
| Respectful Relationships | Research Assessment |
| Changes and Challenges | Case Study Assessments |
| Fitness Testing |
Future Directions
This unit leads to Year 9 Health and PE and the options of choosing Year 9 Fitness and Training or applying for the Sport Academies.