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Hiking

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TEEC offers a variety of hikes. Below are links to descriptions of our most commonly used hikes. This Centre can assist in planning other hikes of various lengths and difficulties. These can include a number of additional activities eg. abseiling, down river canoe trips, mountain biking etc. For further information on these please contact us.

Australian Curriculum: 

During the course of this activity it may be possible to target a number of the "Content Descriptions" across year levels four upwards.

 

Year 4

Health and Physical Education
Personal, social and community health

Being healthy, safe and active

  • Explore how success, challenge and failure strengthen identities.
  • Explore strategies to manage physical, social and emotional change.
  • Describe and apply strategies that can be used in situations that make them feel uncomfortable or unsafe.
  • Identify and practise strategies to promote health, safety and wellbeing.

Communicating and interacting for health and wellbeing

  • Describe how respect, empathy and valuing diversity can positively influence relationships. 
  • Investigate how emotional responses vary in depth and strength.

Contributing to healthy and active communities

  • Describe strategies to make the classroom and playground healthy, safe and active spaces.
  • Participate in outdoor games and activities to examine how participation promotes a connection between the community, natural and built environments, and health and wellbeing. 
Movement and physical activity

Moving our body 

  • Practise and refine fundamental movement skills in a variety of movement sequences and situations. 
  • Practise and apply movement concepts and strategies with and without equipment. 

Understanding movement 

  • Examine the benefits of physical activity to health and wellbeing.
  • Combine the elements of effort, space, time, objects and people when performing movement sequences.

Learning through movement 

  • Adopt inclusive practices when participating in physical activities.
  • Apply innovative and creative thinking in solving movement challenges.
 
 
 

Year 5/6

Health and Physical Education
Personal, social and community health

Being healthy, safe and active

  • Examine how identities are influenced by people and places.
  • Plan and practise strategies to promote health, safety and wellbeing.

Communicating and interacting for health and wellbeing

  • Practise skills to establish and manage relationships. 
  • Examine the influence of emotional responses on behaviour and relationships 

Contributing to healthy and active communities

  • Investigate the role of preventative health in promoting and maintaining health, safety and wellbeing for individuals and their communities.
  • Explore how participation in outdoor activities supports personal and community health and wellbeing and creates connections to the natural and built environment. 
Movement and physical activity

Moving our body

  • Practise specialised movement skills and apply them in a variety of movement sequences and situations. 
  • Propose and apply movement concepts and strategies with and without equipment. 

Understanding movement

  • Participate in physical activities designed to enhance fitness, and discuss the impact regular participation can have on health and wellbeing. 
  • Manipulate and modify the elements of effort, space, time, objects and people to perform movement sequences.

Learning through movement 

  • Participate positively in groups and teams by encouraging others and negotiating roles and responsibilities.
  • Apply critical and creative thinking processes in order to generate and assess solutions to movement challenges.

 

 

Year 7/8

Health and Physical Education
Personal, social and community health

Being healthy, safe and active

  • Practise and apply strategies to seek help for themselves or others. 
  • Investigate and select strategies to promote health, safety and wellbeing.

Communicating and interacting for health and wellbeing

  • Investigate the benefits of relationships and examine their impact on their own and others' health and wellbeing. 
  • Analyse factors that influence emotions, and develop strategies to demonstrate empathy and sensitivity.

Contributing to healthy and active communities

  • Plan and implement strategies for connecting to natural and built environments to promote the health and wellbeing of their communities. 
Movement and physical activity

Moving our body 

  • Use feedback to improve body control and coordination when performing specialised movement skills in a variety of situations.. 
  • Practise, apply and transfer movement concepts and strategies with and without equipment.

Understanding movement 

  • Participate in physical activities that develop health-related and skill-related fitness components, and create and monitor personal fitness plans. 
  • Demonstrate and explain how the elements of effort, space, time, objects and people can enhance movement sequences.

Learning through movement 

  • Practise and apply personal and social skills when undertaking a range of roles in physical activities. 
  • Evaluate and justify reasons for decisions and choices of action when solving movement challenges.
 
 

Year 9/10

Health and Physical Education
Personal, social and community health

Being healthy, safe and active

  • Evaluate factors that shape identities and critically analyse how individuals impact the identities of others.
  • Propose, practise and evaluate responses in situations where external influences may impact on their ability to make healthy and safe choices.

Communicating and interacting for health and wellbeing

  • Investigate how empathy and ethical decision-making contribute to respectful relationships. 
  • Evaluate situations and propose appropriate emotional responses and then reflect on possible outcomes of different responses.

Contributing to healthy and active communities

  • Plan and evaluate new and creative interventions that promote their own and others; connection to community and natural and built environments. 
Movement and physical activity

Moving our body 

  • Perform and refine specialised movement skills in challenging movement situations through providing and applying feedback. 
  • Develop, implement and evaluate movement concepts and strategies for successful outcomes with and without equipment.

Understanding movement 

  • Analyse the impact of effort, space, time, objects and people when composing and performing movement sequences.

Learning through movement

  • Devise, implement and refine strategies demonstrating leadership and collaboration skills when working in groups or teams. 
  • Transfer understanding from previous movement experiences to create solutions to movement challenges. 
 
 

Year 11/12

Physical Education

Acquiring

  • Demonstrate through physical responses an understanding of safety, rules, learned and rehearsed skills, tactics and strategies.
  • Identify, describe, recall and comprehend facts, definitions, terminology and principles as they relate to various contexts through the study, observation of, and engagement in, physical activity.

Applying

  • Apply and integrate information in the performance of physical responses.
  • Analyse and apply performance strategies as individuals, and in groups and teams.
  • Select, interpret, analyse and manipulate information related to the focus areas and performance in physical activities.

Evaluating

  • Modify physical responses based on informed reflective decision making in varying physical performance environments.
  • Initiate change and demonstrate solutions in team and group physical performance.
  • Evaluate, predict and justify probable and possible outcomes of actions, plans and decisions.
  • Make decisions about strategies to communicate ideas.

Attitudes and Values

  • Experience the enjoyment, challenge, self-expression and social interaction that is possible through engagement and informed performance in physical activity.
  • Recognise the aspects of involvement in physical activity that provide personal enjoyment and satisfaction.
  • Acknowledge the range of values and attitudes surrounding performance in physical activities.
  • Develop personal esteem through involvement in physical activity.
  • Value collaborative and shared learning in physical activity.
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Last reviewed 12 February 2020
Last updated 12 February 2020