How our program aligns to the Australian Curriculum
Health and Physical Education (HPE) delivered across Queensland teaches students to develop the skills, understanding and willingness to positively influence the health and wellbeing of themselves and their communities.
In Australia, content studied in HPE is organised under two strands: Personal, social and community health and movement and physical activity. Both strands are interrelated. The StandUp education program aligns with the personal, social and community health strand, which focuses on the knowledge, understanding and skills needed to make healthy and safe choices.
Under this strand, content is organised into three sub strands. The table below demonstrates how the StandUp education program further aligns with the three sub strands of the Australian Curriculum.
Personal, social and community health
- Identities and change: AC9HP10P02
- Interacting with others: AC9HP10P04, AC9HP10P06
- Making healthy and safe choices AC9HP10P08, AC9HP10P09, AC9HP10P10
Content description
Refine, evaluate, and adapt strategies for managing changes and transitions.
Application
- Practicing skills to deal with challenging or unsafe situations, such as refusal skills, communicating choices, expressing opinions, and initiating contingency plans.
- Assessing behavioural expectations in different relationships and social situations, and examining how these expectations can influence decisions and actions.
Content description
Evaluate the influence of respect, empathy, power, and coercion on establishing and maintaining respectful relationships.
Application
- Investigating the characteristics of positive, respectful relationships and the rights and ethical responsibilities of individuals in relationships
- Investigating how the balance of power influences the nature of relationships and proposing actions that can be taken when a relationship is not respectful
Content description
Evaluate emotional responses in different situations to refine strategies for managing emotions
Application
- Proposing strategies for managing emotional responses and resolving conflict in a family, school or social situation, or online environment.
- Reflecting on the possible consequences of not recognising their own or others’ emotions in a range of challenging situations, including responses to rejection, failure, harassment, and violence.
- Evaluating situations where an individual may react with extreme or uncontrolled emotion and reflecting on the impact that this response may have on the situation and/or their relationships.
Content description
Plan, rehearse and evaluate strategies for managing situations where their own or others' health, safety or wellbeing may be at risk.
Application
- Planning and practising responses to emergencies where they may be required to call for assistance.
