Health and Physical Education

PHYSICAL EDUCATION SEMESTER 2

Vision for PE at Romsey Primary School:

Being active in a range of games and activities

Students will be exposed to a range of sports

Skills be taught through a direct teaching approach and games based approach

Specialised coaching

Learning skills can be challenging but will help build resilience and persistence

Learn the importance of working as an individual and in team sports

Victorian Curriculum:

Movement and Physical Activity

Moving the body

Understanding movement

Learning through movement

Foundation 

TERM 3 

Students will be involved in the following activities: Gymnastics/Dance, Co-operative games, Net Set Go and Aussie Hoops. Net Set Go is the modifided version for netball and will focus on the fundamental skills of throwing and catching. During the Aussie Hoops (modified basketball program) students will focus on the fundamental skills of ball bounce and dodging.

TERM 4 

Students will focus on the fundamental skills of one and two hand strike through cricket and the hot shots program (tennis). There will also be units working on knowledge and understanding of games with and invasion or target flavour.

Year 1 and 2 

TERM 3 

Students will participate in the following activites: Minor games, Net Set Go and Aussie Hoops. During the Net Set Go and Aussie Hoops program students will continue to build their skills and knowledge developed in their foundation year.

TERM 4

Students will continue to build upon their skills and knowledge of the fundamental skills of one and two hand strike through activities using cricket and hot shots tennis as the main sport.

Year 3 and 4

TERM 3

During this term, students will focus on building knowledge and skills that apply to invasion games. Invasion games require the skills to move into an opponent's space and try and score against them. Games will include: basketball, thunderhoc and buroinjin.

TERM 4

Students will participate in striking and fielding activities such as cricket, rounders kickball. These games have a team trying to develop skills and strategy around scoring while their opponents are developing the understanding of how to stop scoring from happening.

Year 5 and 6

TERM 3

Students will be participating in games with an invasion flavour. This is to build upon knowledge and understanding developed during year 3 and 4. The activities that they will participate in will be basketball, field hockey and speedball. 

TERM 4

In term 4, students will continue to enhance their skills and knowledge of striking/fielding games that they begun learning about in the previous two years. The games that will be the focus are: cricket, t-ball and softball.