Physical Education

HEALTH and PHYSICAL EDUCATION

Our Health & Physical Education program is focussed on enhancing the health, safety, wellbeing and participation in physical activity in a variety of contexts for all students at our school.

All classes from Prep to Year 6 attend a one-hour specialist session each week with an emphasis on Fundamental Motor Skill Development. These include throwing, catching, kicking, dodging, leaping, jumping, striking, running and ball bounce. These skills are introduced and taught in a sequential order throughout all year levels which are incorporated into minor and major games.

Essential to these sessions is the awareness and actioning of our school’s RUIn values of Respect, Understanding and Integrity. This occurs through physical activity and games, resulting in the modelling of fair and respectful conduct in sports, to be gracious in both winning and losing, as well as celebrating these successes.

To complement this, students are also provided with opportunities to develop knowledge, understanding and skills to assist them in making healthy, safe and active choices to enhance their personal and others’ wellbeing.

House Sports

Students in Years 3-6 engage in our annual Swimming, Cross Country and Athletics carnival events. Points are earned for their respective House Teams which helps to build a sense of deeper community across the school. All competitors are encouraged to strive for their personal best. We welcome our school community to attend, witness and cheer our students on.

From these events students also have the opportunity to progress from district to division and then onto state level competition.

Interschool Sport

We are also part of the Ringwood District Sports Association and our Year 5 and 6 students compete in interschool competition with other local schools.  These rounds are undertaken in Terms 1 and 2 as Summer and Winter programs and a range of team sports are offered for the students to select from.