In Health and Physical Education, students learn how to enhance their own and others’ health, safety, wellbeing and physical activity participation in varied and changing contexts.
Pre-Primary to Year six students participate in Physical Education as a specialist learning area with Mrs Rona Gartner. Students also do fitness and other physical education sessions with their class teachers. In the early primary years the focus is on Fundamental Movement skills. In middle and upper primary classes fundamental game skills are taught.
Spearwood Primary School participates in a variety of sport clinics with a number of different sporting associations visiting the school to provide free skills sessions to develop interest in a variety of sporting disciplines.
All students from pre-primary to Year 6 participate in Department of Education funded, in-term swimming lessons which develop water safety and skills critical in our climate and water oriented lifestyles.
Each year students also participate in a whole school dance and fitness program, Edu dance. Edu dance is a creative dance program designed for Primary school students developed in Perth, Western Australia. It provides all primary school age children with the opportunity to be part of a fun and energetic dance program within their own school community.
Spearwood students compete at school and interschool sports including:
- The Faction athletic carnival
- interschool athletics competition
- Winter Lightning Carnival
- Cross Country
In 2021 at the Interschool Lightning Carnival the much younger and smaller soccer team were told that sportsmanship and fun were their aim for the day. They came back with the ‘Fair Play’ trophy for sportsmanship and knew we would be so proud. In 2022, the school received an email from a competing school about how kind and what great sportsmanship our students demonstrated.
Spearwood Primary School students are always well-presented, perform competitively and display outstanding team skills and good sportsmanship.
Protective Behaviours
Protective Behaviours provides resources to empower children, young people and adults to promote safety as keeping children safe is the responsibility of the whole community.
Although every child has the right to feel safe at all times, each year thousands of children across Australia experience abuse. It is estimated that 1 in 4 girls and 1 in 7 boys will be subject to some form of unwanted sexual activity before the age of 18 (Australian Institute of Criminology, 1993).
All school staff must implement protective behaviours education under the Child Protection in Department of Education policies and procedures. Protective Behaviours education aligns across all phases of schooling.
The Protective Behaviours program teaches and promotes two overarching themes.
- We all have the right to feel safe at all times.
- We can talk with someone about something no matter what it is.
By sharing protective behaviours, this program helps to develop lifelong skills of assertiveness, self-confidence, problem solving, communication, resilience and help seeking.
Protective Behaviours activities and discussions are simple and presented in a fun, child-friendly way, designed not to frighten children but inform them of some of the vital skills of personal safety.
Protective Behaviours resources can be found on the school website to support parents and families to work together with classroom instruction.
If you wish to discuss the content and purpose of the Protective Behaviours program, please contact your child’s classroom teacher.
