Sport & Recreation

Year 12 Sport & Recreation have been completing their Event Management unit, exploring motivation strategies to increase participation of players for future events they will manage. Strategies include the use of fun equipment (like squeaking rubber chickens), costumes, team celebrations and music. Our student community will benefit by getting to participate in some of their fun events they have been busy planning as they implement them over the next couple of weeks.

11 Sport & Recreation are completing a community recreation unit which sees them visit and participate in a wide variety of activities our wonderful community has to offer. Students have investigated activities such as Park Run, the Skate Park, our outdoor gym and walking paths. They also did a virtual tour of Mt Marlay mountain bike trials and over the next few weeks will participate in activities at the Y fitness centre. Their assessment will see them take one of these community activities and adapt it to appeal to a teenage audience.

Senior Physical Education

Last term in Senior PE, students delved into sport psychology, exploring strategies like motivation, confidence, and arousal control, which students applied during our engaging badminton lessons. Through their FA1 and IA1 folio tasks, students demonstrated thoughtful reflection and a genuine commitment to improving their performance. This term, focus has shifted to equity and access in physical activity, where students are examining important social, environmental, cultural, and personal factors that impact participation in sport.

Health and Physical Education

Year 10 HPE students are exploring and learning about different training types to support specific fitness goals. This research then supports their assessment where they are to design personalised fitness plans to improve their chosen components of fitness for touch football training.

Year 9 Students will be investigating the role that the community plays in promoting and encouraging sustainable health. Students will investigate and evaluate community facilities in Stanthorpe to determine how they can positively impact the health of individuals and their alignment to the goals of the Queensland Plan. Based off this evaluation, students will create proposals to improve alignment to the Queensland Plan. Practically, students will be working on their knowledge of the rules and tactics of racquet sports and futsal, whilst improving and preforming skills with speed, accuracy and fluency.

Year 8 HPE students are currently hard at work in movement and health lessons to develop their understanding of whole-body fitness in athletics. This is explored through the teaching and testing of components of fitness from flexibility to speed. They are also developing the ability to train these components to improve them and have recently created fun class fitness routines (based around a deck of cards!) they will complete later this term.

Year 7 students are participating in athletics this term in preparation for the Interschool Athletics Carnival at the end of term. Each week they will try a new athletic event to build on their skills. Additionally, students are playing a range of minor games that involve a variety of select skills to support their assessment where in groups they design and test a newly created minor game that considers inclusivity and diversity within the school context.