Co-Curricular and Camps
Year 1 and 2 physical education Year 1-3 sport
Year 1 and 2 classes attend three, 52 minute lessons of
Physical Education per fortnight. The focus of this program is
on fundamental movement skills including body control skills,
locomotion skills, and object control skills. Students will develop
a vocabulary for movement and apply concepts dealing with
space and body awareness as well as hand/foot-eye coordination.
Students will be engaged in activities that develop basic levels
of strength, endurance, and flexibility. In addition, students will
learn to work safely in group and individual movement settings. Activities are selected in order to ensure that they are covering a
broad range of fundamental movement skills and are developing
overall athleticism in students. Activities currently being offered
include:
A major objective is to present activities in a setting of simple
games that complements the student’s natural inclination to view
physical activity as challenging and enjoyable. This will create
multiple and numerous opportunities to practise the skill or
strategy that is the learning intention for the lesson with technical
instruction being delivered in short, targeted discussions or in a
discrete manner. Students will also get the opportunity to perform and compete
on an individual level during targeted swimming, athletics and
cross country running carnivals.
Year 3 and 4 physical education
Year 3 and 4 classes attend three, 52 minute lessons of Physical
Education per fortnight. Year 3 and 4 PE continue to build on
fundamental movement skills in a similar manner to the Year
1 and 2 programs. Students in Year 3 and 4 progress to using
these fundamental movement skills in minor and modified game
situations.
• Gymnastics (Ed-Gym)
• Athletics (Run, Jump, Throw Program)
• Dance (Edu-Dance)
• Soccer (Year 1 and 2)/Tennis (Year 3).
Year 4 sport
Year 5 and 6 physical education
Year 5 and 6 classes attend three, 52 minute lessons of Physical
Education per fortnight. The focus of this program is on game
strategies within the context of modified games and modified
sports categorised into invasion games, net and wall games,
striking and fielding games as well as target games. The aim of
this is to create a bank of transferrable skills and strategies for
students to draw on as they improve their game knowledge and
physical literacy.
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This program operates in a lightning carnival format with short
periods of instruction (6-8 training sessions) leading up to the
carnival for each particular sport. This program utilises the
expertise of former students as well as external and Senior School
student coaches to prepare for the carnivals and provide a sample
of each JPSSA sport.
Students will also get the opportunity to perform and compete
on an individual level during targeted swimming, athletics and
cross country running carnivals.