Year 9 HPE Syllabus
Year 9
Year level description
In the middle adolescence phase of schooling, teaching and learning programs encourage students to develop an open and questioning view of themselves as active participants in their society and the world.
Health and Physical Education provides opportunities for students to refine their understanding of how they can contribute to individual and community health and wellbeing. Students have frequent opportunities to participate in physical activities, including in outdoor settings, to value the importance of active recreation as a way of enhancing their health and wellbeing throughout their lives.
In Year 9, students take into consideration the influence of external factors on their ability to make safe and informed choices, which may impact their capacity to achieve a healthy lifestyle. They continue to develop knowledge, skills and understandings in relation to respectful relationships, with a focus on skills that promote positive interactions and resolving conflict. Students examine effective strategies that may be implemented in situations where the giving or denying of consent is required.
Students focus on elements of speed and accuracy in different movement environments, while continuing to develop the efficiency of movement skills. They explore ways to evaluate performances, through analysis of skills and movement, and measure a number of the body’s responses to physical activities. They transfer previous knowledge of outcomes in movement situations to inform and refine skills, strategies and tactics to maximise success. Opportunities are provided for students to refine and consolidate skills and strategies for effective leadership and teamwork, and consistently apply ethical behaviour across a range of movement contexts.
Year 9 Achievement standard
By the end of the year:
Health Education
Students identify and apply relevant criteria to determine the effectiveness of various strategies that may be used to enhance health and wellbeing. They determine the appropriateness and reliability of health information and whether it is suitable for use in a particular context. Students examine a range of characteristics of respectful relationships. They describe and apply appropriate skills and strategies to resolve and manage conflict within different environments.
Physical Education
Students select and use individual movement skills and sequences that increase in complexity and perform them with increased speed and control and improved accuracy. They implement tactics and adapt them in response to previous performances. Students measure a number of the body’s responses to physical activity. In competitive contexts, students participate ethically and demonstrate leadership and ways to build motivation. They encourage teamwork in various contexts toward inclusive, lifelong participation.
Content descriptions
Personal identity and change
Factors that shape personal identities and adolescent health behaviours
WA9HEHPP1
Strategies for managing changes and transitions
WA9HEHPP2
Staying safe
Skills to determine the appropriateness and reliability of online health information
WA9HEHPS1
Skills to deal with challenging or unsafe situations:
- refusal skills
- initiating contingency plans
- acting assertively
WA9HEHPS2
Actions and strategies to enhance health and wellbeing in a range of environments
WA9HEHPS3
For example:
- the use of complementary health practices to support and promote good health
- responding to emergency situations to administer first aid, such as Danger, Response, Send, Airway, Breathing, Compression, Defibrillation (DRSABCD)
- identifying and managing unsafe situations
- safe blood practices
Strategies are examined, such as communicating choices, seeking, giving and denying consent, and expressing opinions and needs that can support the development of respectful relationships, including sexual relationships
WA9HEHPS4
For example:
- describing strategies that enhance the safety and wellbeing of sexual partners, such as communicating feelings of each party, respecting boundaries and choices, gaining affirmative consent, assertive communication and respecting individuals’ rights
- investigating the Western Australian legal requirements in relation to seeking, giving, refusing and accepting the refusal of consent, and considering how these laws relate to relationships with friends, colleagues, strangers and intimate partners, in both online and offline interactions
Healthy and active communities
Impact of external influences on the ability of adolescents to make safe and informed choices relating to:
- sexual health behaviours
- alcohol, drugs or other harmful substance use
- risk-taking
WA9HEHPH1
Implications of attitudes and behaviours on individuals and the community
WA9HEHPH2
For example:
- prejudice
- marginalisation
- homophobia
- discrimination
Interacting with others
Characteristics of respectful relationships and how these can prevent violence and abuse
WA9HEHPI1
For example:
- respecting the rights and responsibilities of individuals in the relationship
- communication
- respecting gender equality
- respecting personal differences and opinions
- empathy
Managing emotional responses and resolving conflict in family or social situations
WA9HEHPI2
For example:
- coping with rejection
- negotiation skills
Movement skills
Movement skills and sequences within different physical activity contexts and settings reflecting:
- increased speed and accuracy
- improved efficiency
- increased complexity
WA9HEPMM1
Skills, strategies and tactics in new or challenging movement situations and the impact of each on movement outcomes
WA9HEPMM2
Lifelong physical activities to enhance health, fitness and wellbeing, including moving in natural environments
WA9HEPMM3
Understanding movement
Measurement of the body’s response to physical activity:
- flexibility
- strength
- balance
- endurance
WA9HEPMU1
Use of games, recreational activities and outdoor pursuits to improve components of health, fitness and wellbeing
WA9HEPMU2
Interpersonal skills
Skills and strategies for effective leadership, including teamwork and motivation
WA9HEPMI1
For example:
- setting goals
- establishing roles
- communication
- time management
Characteristics of fair play and application of fair and ethical behaviour in physical activity
WA9HEPMI2
Strategies for decision-making when working in groups or teams that demonstrate leadership and collaboration skills
WA9HEPMI3