{"id":1496,"date":"2025-10-14T09:52:52","date_gmt":"2025-10-13T23:22:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/curric.theheights.sa.edu.au\/?page_id=1496"},"modified":"2025-10-14T09:57:40","modified_gmt":"2025-10-13T23:27:40","slug":"year-8-health-and-physical-education","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/curric.theheights.sa.edu.au\/?page_id=1496","title":{"rendered":"Year 8 \u2013 Health and Physical Education"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Length:&nbsp;Full Year<br><br><strong>Course Description<\/strong><br><br>Year 8 students study Health and Physical Education for the full year. Student learning is focused in two main areas: Personal, Social and Community Health, and Movement and Physical Activity.<br><br>Learning topics covered in Year 8 include, but are not limited to the following:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Invasion Sports &#8211; Tactics and Gameplay<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Mental Health and Wellbeing<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Fitness Principles<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Adolescent Food and Nutrition<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Net and Wall Sports Skill Improvement<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Risk and Safety &#8211; Drugs and Alcohol<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Relationships and Sexual Health<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Cultural Games and Sports<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><br><strong>Assessment<\/strong><br><br>Year 8 Students are assessed according to the HPE Achievement Standards outlined in the Australian Curriculum, with A-E Grades used for reporting. Assessment is based on a variety of tasks completed in class time and for homework.<br><br>Assessments in Movement and Physical Activity-based topics will be from an assessment task, where active participation in lessons will contribute to being able to successfully complete these tasks.&nbsp;<br><br><strong>Leads To<\/strong><br><br><a href=\"https:\/\/curric.theheights.sa.edu.au\/?page_id=143\">Year 9 Health and Physical Education<\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/curric.theheights.sa.edu.au\/?page_id=96\">Year 9 PE Elective<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Length:&nbsp;Full Year Course Description Year 8 students study Health and Physical Education for the full year. Student learning is focused in two main areas: Personal, Social and Community Health, and Movement and Physical Activity. Learning topics covered in Year 8 include, but are not limited to the following: Assessment Year 8 Students are assessed according [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1496","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/curric.theheights.sa.edu.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1496","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/curric.theheights.sa.edu.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/curric.theheights.sa.edu.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/curric.theheights.sa.edu.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/curric.theheights.sa.edu.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1496"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/curric.theheights.sa.edu.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1496\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1501,"href":"https:\/\/curric.theheights.sa.edu.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1496\/revisions\/1501"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/curric.theheights.sa.edu.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}