Resources Distributed to Schools

Units of work in PDHPE for K-2 which facilitate the systematic learning of skills and understandings which counter violence. Set of three books.

A fair go for all is designed to assist schools in effective teaching and learning about positive relationships and personal safety. It is a set of materials for students from Kindergarten to Year 10.

Units of work provide learning experiences for students which develop the following:

• personal safety skills
• co-operative learning
• comunication
• tolerance
• positive emotional expression
• conflict resolution.

The reviews in this resource are designed to assist teachers, other professionals working in the area of drug education, and parents to select appropriate resources to support drug education in schools. Additionally, the bibliography can serve as a guide for professional development and for self-education in the area of drug education.

The range of resources, while not exhaustive, has been selected from the most relevant of recent and currently available materials. Fiction has been included in response to requests from teachers wanting to use literature as a medium for the delivery of drug education as part of the PDHPE and English syllabuses.

Designed to assist schools to address many of the findings of the NSW schools fitness and physical activity survey and to implement the PDHPE syllabus. Information sheets and professional development activities are included.

This resource gives practical advice on ways they can take a health promoting school approach to physical activity.

It provides the latest information about physical activity in children and youth, as well as professional development activities, school case studies and teaching strategies. It addresses and builds on many of the finding of the NSW Schools Fitness and Physical Activity Survey, 1997.

This resource contains information, videos and professional development activities relating to fundamental movement skills.

The resource, Get skilled: Get active, has been developed to help support teachers improve the fundamental movement skills of primary students.

It introduces twelve fundamental movement skills. These skills are considered to be essential if students are to participate successfully in the many physical activities, games and sports offered in our community.

Participation in a safe environment provides opportunities for students to enjoy the experience of physical activity, to develop skills, interact socially and achieve personal goals. This document will assist schools promote quality participation in physical activity through safe and enjoyable activities.

Guidelines for the safe conduct of sport and physical activity in schools has been produced to inform and support school communities in the planning and implementation of safe sport and physical activity. It draws together advice from current NSW Department of Education memoranda which has an impact on the supervision and welfare of students engaged in physical activity, and strengthens existing safety guidelines and standards for specific sport and outdoor recreation activities. It also describes best practice in injury prevention.

The guidelines contained in this document can be applied for any occasion where planned physical activity is to occur. This includes activity undertaken as part of the school sport or Personal Development, Health and Physical Education programs and excursions.

Developed to support the implementation of drug education within school PDHPE programs. Seven units of work are provided, linked to the relevant outcomes and content strands of the PDHPE K-6 syllabus. Teacher resource book.

This resource has been developed to support the implementation of drug education within school PDHPE programs. Seven units of work are provided, linked to relevant outcomes and strands of the PDHPE K-6 syllabus.

The content strands from PDHPE which relate specifically to drug education and provide students with knowledge, attitudes and skills that will enable them to understand the harms associated with drug use are:

• growth and development
• interpersonal relationships
• personal health choices
• safe living.

The units of work are divived into a series of lessons. The activities within the lessons may need to be modified according to the needs and interests of students and school community. They may be taught as discrete units, or lessons from them may be integrated into existing lessons or units of work.

Road safety education resources for Stage 1, Stage 2 and Stage 3. Each pack contains a teacher resource booklet, which lists teaching and learning experiences that are further supported by audio tapes for shared books, a video tape and photographs.

This road safety education resource consists of three resource packs, one for each learning stage in primary school. Each pack contains a teacher resource booklet which provides learning experiences based on the student outcomes of the Board of Studies K-6 Syllabus.

The booklet also contain road safety education messages for teachers, parents and students and ideas for involving families.

Teaching and learning experiences are further supported by audio tapes for shared books, a video tape and photographs.

Resources for teaching and learning activities about body image and gender in primary school PDHPE and English programs.

Over recent years there has been widespread community concern about the incidence of eating disorders among adolescent girls, and more recently, boys. This concern is not just focused on those young people who develop the clinically diagnosed disorders of anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa, but extends to a much wider group of young people who engage in behaviours such as excessive dieting and exercise which prevent them from leading healthy lives.

This resource provides teachers with a series of teaching and learning activities which they incorporate into Stage 3 programs. It includes two units of teaching and learning activities designed to help boys and girls gain a greater understanding of their body image and the social issues which impact on their eating behaviours.

An information brochure for parents and the community used in conjunction with Fitness and Physical Activity: A Resource to Support School Communities.

Road safety education seeks to develop positive attitudes and safe behaviours in children and adolescents as present and future road users.

Schools can play an important role in the development of safe road use behaviours through the provision of coherent, sequential road safety education from early childhood through to senior years of schooling.

This policy statement is designed to support NSW government schools in implementing effective road safety education as part of a whole school program.

A document that gives practical advice to schools wishing to become health promoting schools.

This document has been designed to complement the NSW Board of Studies' syllabuses in PDHPE from Kindergarten to Year 12. It takes the concept of the health promoting school outlined in the syllabuses and elaborates on ideas for implementing this concept in schools.

You can use this document in a number of ways:

• to consolidate your understanding of the concept of the health promoting school
• to support and enhance existing school programs
• to assist in raising awareness within the school community
• to provide a basis for planning to help your school community become a health promoting school
• to gain ideas from other school case studies

In response to concerns about youth smoking, the New South Wales Department of Education and Training has developed Smoke screen: a smoking prevention resource. The resource supports the NSW Personal Development, Health and Physical Education K-6 and Years 7-10 Syllabuses and has been distributed to all NSW government schools.

As smoking is generally adopted during the early to mid-teens, the late primary and early secondary school years are clearly a crucial time for intervention. For this reason the resource targets Stage 3 (Years 5-6) and Stage 4 (Years 7-8).

Smoke screen aims to provide young people with knowledge relating to the effects of smoking and the skills to advocate against smoking. The resource also assists students to critically examine marketing strategies. Particular attention is given to product placement in movies / television and cigarette packaging used to recruit young people, especially females.

The resource includes activities addressing three themes. These themes are:

Physical consequences of smoking
Classroom activities in this theme address facts on tobacco, addiction and the contents of a cigarette.

Attitudes to smoking
In this theme students examine tobacco-marketing strategies and practise refusal skills.

Advocating against smoking
These activities focus on the costs of smoking, advocacy strategies, developing their own anti-smoking campaigns and using appropriate refusal techniques.

If you want any more information or have any queries please contact the NSW Department of Education and Training's Drug Education Unit on 02 9886 7165.

Developed to provide teachers with practical curriculum support in the effective use of computer-based technologies in teaching and learning. It is especially targeted at classroom teachers, including those with little or no experience of computer-based technologies, and aims to provide advice and ideas to enhance student learning.These documents were distributed to all NSW government primary school teachers in 1997.

The full report of the survey carried out across schools in NSW.

The purpose of this survey was to provide reliable scientific data on the body composition, health-related fitness, physical activity habits and mastery of fundamental movement skills among primary and high school students in New South Wales.

A summary of the comprehensive survey conducted in NSW. Intended for teacher information and as a valuable resource for schools and their communities.

This report has been prepared for the specific use of school communities. It summarises the information contained in the main report of the NSW Fitness and Physical Activity Survey, 1997.

This summary report describes the methods and the main findings of the survey, and also makes suggestions on ways in which schools can make use of the findings to encourage all students to participate in lifelong physical activity.