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Physical Education Stage 2
Subject outline

Version 4.0 - For teaching in 2024.
Accredited in November 2017 for teaching at Stage 2 from 2020. 

Stage 2 | Subject outline | Content | Focus Area 2: Through movement

Focus Area 2: Through movement

Education ‘through’ physical activity is about students using movement for personal, intellectual, and social competencies. Such competencies will allow students to engage more purposefully in physical activity. Students use physical activity contexts as the vehicle for developing their competencies to reflect on and critique their learning in order to enhance participation and performance outcomes.

 

 

Key ideas
Considerations

Social psychology
  • group dynamics
  • team‑building strategies — communication, leadership, norms, rules
  • personal well‑being — growth mindset, character strengths


Psychology of sporting performance

  • neurochemical balance
  • perception of effort (PoE)
  • strategies to improve an athlete’s relationship with PoE
  • goal‑setting strategies — process goals, outcome goals, and performance goals
  • mental‑rehearsal strategies — mental rehearsal of the entire performance, visualisation of one aspect of skill execution prior to performance, and internal and external perspectives of imagery 
  • positive self‑talk strategies including using positive cue words and positive emotions to create self‑belief 
  • self‑confidence strategies — identifying how thoughts can affect self‑confidence, e.g. situation, thoughts, emotions and reactions, using affirmations to change personal reactions to situations


Barriers and enablers to physical activity

  • personal strategies, e.g. enabling choice of activities to suit personal preference; acknowledging individual attitudes, values, and beliefs
  • social strategies, e.g. grouping and team selection, performance environment modifications, manipulation of rules and constraints in physical activity
  • cultural strategies, e.g. community promotion and engagement related to physical activity, media and marketing strategies, rules, policies, and procedures, risk assessment within a school setting


Collaboration for physical activity purposes

 

  • application of collaborative skills to suit the physical activity context, e.g. communication, building shared understanding, collectively contributing, regulating behaviour.
  • utilising collaborative strategies to achieve common goals related to physical activity


Evidence of participation or performance in physical activity

 

  • types of data
  • validity and reliability
  • quantitative and qualitative evidence
  • comparative analysis, e.g. causation versus correlation, positive and negative trends, percentage change