Early Years: Health and Physical Education
The following are the Queensland Studies Authorities Health and Physical Education Key Learning Areas for the Early Years:
- Enhancing personal development
- Promoting the health of individuals and communities
- Developing skills and concepts for physical activity
- Making healthy choices
Children build a sense of wellbeing by making choices about their own and others health and safety with increasing independence
| Becoming Aware |
Exploring |
Making connections |
Applying |
| With explicit support, the child participates in discussions about how to be healthy and safe in the learning environment. |
With support, the children participates in identified practices to be healthy and safe in the learning environment. |
With prompts the child chooses safe and healthy practices and demonstrates an awareness of how these choices may affect them. |
The child makes choices from an identified range of practices to keep themself and others healthy and safe in familiar situations. |
Gross motor Children build a sense of wellbeing by using and extending gross-motor skills when integrating movements and using equipment
| Becoming Aware |
Exploring |
Making connections |
Applying |
| With explicit support, the child joins in movement experiences that make use of familiar equipment, copying movements and gestures. |
With support, the child explores different ways to move, and to use familiar equipment. |
With prompts, the child tries out ways to use and combine movements, with or without equipment, for different purposes with developing confidence. |
The child combines and coordinates familiar movements with developing control and strength, and increasing confidence, including when using equipment. |
Fine Motor Children build a sense of wellbeing by using and extending fine-motor skills when integrating movements and manipulating equipment, tools and objects
| Becoming Aware |
Exploring |
Making connections |
Applying |
| With explicit support, the child experiments with equipment, materials, tools and objects in the learning environment. |
With support, the child explores new ways to move, and to use equipment, materials, tools and objects for personal use. |
With prompts, the child uses manipulative skills appropriate to the selected equipment, materials, tools and objects to achieve a task. |
The child combines and coordinates movements with developing control and strength, and increasing confidence, when manipulating equipments, tools and objects. |
Reference: http://www.qsa.qld.edu.au/syllabus/573.html
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