Hocking Primary School Expected Standard: C Grade Descriptor –
Physical Education
Expected Standard: C Grade Descriptor – Health and Physical Education Year 1
Skills for Physical Activity
By the end of Year 1, through regular and active participation in physical activity, students
are able to demonstrate a range of fundamental movement skills in structured and creative
play environments. These include:
• Body
management skills.
skills.
• Locomotor
Students are developing object control skills.
Expected Standard: C Grade Descriptor – Health and Physical Education Year 2
For Year 2, refer to the descriptors for the year levels above and below.
Expected Standard: C Grade Descriptor – Health and Physical Education Year 3
Skills for Physical Activity
By the end of Year 3, through regular and active participation in physical activity, students
are able to demonstrate a wide range of fundamental movement skills in structured play and
skill development environments. These include:
• Body
management skills and spatial awareness with controlled movements in isolation
and/or with equipment.
• Locomotor skills that comprise controlled combinations of speed, shape and direction.
• Object control skills whilst stationary and moving, including the use of targets.
Students apply simple combinations of locomotor, body management and object control skills. They
follow instructions and routines in physical activity and simple games.
Expected Standard: C Grade Descriptor – Health and Physical Education Year 4
For Year 4, refer to the descriptors for the year levels above and below.
Expected Standard: C Grade Descriptor – Health and Physical Education Year 5
Skills for Physical Activity
By the end of Year 5, through regular and active participation in physical activity, students
begin to extend their fundamental movement skills. They are developing specialised skills
and ideas and apply them to minor games and physical activities. These include:
• Object
control skills such as kicking a stationary ball or throwing and catching a small ball
with correct technique.
• Maintaining possession and control; demonstrated through sending and receiving objects
and/or ways of moving.
• Developing
• Applying
an awareness of other participants and the use of space.
balance and stability and adjusting forces and motion to perform a movement.
Expected Standard: C Grade Descriptor – Health and Physical Education Year 6
For Year 6, refer to the descriptors for the year levels above and below.
Expected Standard: C Grade Descriptor – Health and Physical Education Year 7
Skills for Physical Activity
By the end of Year 7, through regular and active participation in physical activity, students
begin to incorporate specialised skills, techniques and ideas within controlled environments
and a variety of modified games and physical activities. These include:
• Object
control skills such as dribbling, hitting a moving target.
• Strategies for maintaining possession and control such as on and off the ball movement.
• Creating and using space and beginning to demonstrate the ability to ‘read the game’.
• Applying balance and stability and adjusting forces and motion to impact on the quality of
the movement.