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| 2015 Professional Learning | |
Upcoming professional learning events being held by your ACHPER State/Territory Branch:
10 August 2015
13-14 August 2015
4 September 2015
11 September 2015
11 September 2015
23-24 November 2015
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| Resource writers: Call for EOI | |
ACHPER National is seeking expressions of interest from ACHPER members and the wider community to be part of a pool of resource writers to write education resource content as required on a contract basis.
Knowledge and understanding of the learning outcomes from the Australian Curriculum: Health and Physical Education would be essential.
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| Save 20% on this daily HPE resource for primary schools |
The Developing Daily: Foundation Body Movements resources for Years 3, 4 and 5 (set of three books) is made up of activities chosen to stimulate children to move daily while at the same time being very beneficial for their health, learning, thinking and self-confidence.
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| 2015 ACHPER Membership | |
Not an ACHPER Member? JOIN TODAY!
Join ACHPER in 2015 and become part of a vibrant professional community committed to promoting active and healthy living for all Australians.
Discounted PL and resources are just one of the many benefits!
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| 2014 Annual Report | |
View a snapshot of key facts and figures from ACHPER National's 2014 Annual Report.
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| Celebrating 60 years | |
2015 holds a particular significance for ACHPER, celebrating 60 years of being a national organisation, with its beginnings going back to the Australian Physical Education Association.
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| Partners & Supporters | |
ACHPER National acknowledges and appreciates the support of the following organisations:
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National Health and Physical Education (HPE) Day, to be held on Wednesday September 9 2015, is a day of celebration and recognition of your contribution and commitment to the learning area of HPE.
The theme for this year's nationwide advocacy event, Good for Schools, builds on last year's celebration of why HPE is Good for Children and will scaffold 2016's focus on why HPE is Good for Communities.
Our Ambassadors for this year, former athlete and HPE teacher Steve Moneghetti, President of the Australian Primary Principals Association Dennis Yarrington, Executive Director of the Australian Secondary Principals Association Rob Nairn, and youth advocate and triathlete Holly Ransom, all understand the important role HPE plays in the learning and development of children and are passionate believers in the benefits of movement, HPE and sport.
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| National HPE Day: Good for Schools | | 
Teachers and Principals are encouraged to get involved in National Health and Physical Education (HPE) Day celebrations on Wednesday September 9 2015 by holding activities or events on the day to demonstrate how much your school values this important learning area in the curriculum. Parents are also urged to get involved and commit to a 'Parent Pledge' to see them encouraging physical activity at home.
Resources for teachers and parents will be made available on the National HPE Day website, which will be launched mid-August.
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| Schools to host Mini NWC! | | 
World sporting events provide us with an opportunity to celebrate the participation and achievements of the best athletes and teams on the planet. One such sporting event is the Netball World Cup Sydney 2015.
Between the 7-16 August, the tournament has the 16 best netball nations in the world battle each other to become world champions. Best of all, you and your students can be part of it, through the Mini Netball World Cup 2015.
Whilst the spectacular netball on display will forge unprecedented interest in the game, this Year 5 and 6 program will provide you with a unique opportunity to drive learning in your school and community, and enhance general capabilities in your students.
The Mini Netball World Cup 2015 is a 21st century schools program that consists of three standalone integrated units of work (English, Maths and HPE) as well as optional lessons to help build teamwork. Learn more about the resource here. |
| EXCLUSIVE Professional Learning opportunity in Singapore in January 2016 for ACHPER members | |  Extend your professional learning network and expand your expertise by joining this immersive study program to Singapore from 10-23 January 2016 that integrates a diverse blend of HPE learning opportunities.
This unique program, led by an ACHPER National representative, consists of meeting with local expertise in the HPE curriculum area, attendance at seminars and lectures focusing on current educational issues and latest pedagogy, school immersion opportunities, a tour of sporting research facilities, and a workshop at Singapore's leading institutions. All participants will receive a certificate with the targeted AITSL Professional Learning standards. This opportunity is exclusively for ACHPER members only.
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| Why children need to move throughout the school day | | 
It is time to stand up for our children! Children spend more than 70% of their waking hours sitting, and much of this happens at school.
Alfred Deakin Professor Jo Salmon outlines the research being undertaken at the Centre for Physical Activity and Nutrition Research (C-PAN) to break up and reduce the volume of sitting children are doing throughout the day to encourage them to be more physically active.
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| BOUNCE ED - The ultimate new curriculum resource for schools | | 
Bounce Ed is a contemporary, fun and safe new curriculum resource and program that promotes active participation, regardless of skill level. Combining fundamental movement skills, such as locomotion and kinaesthetic awareness, with the efficient and effective exercise benefit of rebound activities, Bounce Ed is the ultimate new schools program that both students and teachers will love.
BOUNCE is a safe and secure "trampoline universe" with over 100 interconnected trampolines. BOUNCE sporting facilities offer a unique learning environment for students to participate in skill based developmental programs. Since 2012, BOUNCE has hosted more than 700 school groups. BOUNCE is the ultimate destination for encouraging participation, developing skills and growing confidence, whilst expanding movement and health knowledge.
For more information and to be the first to receive the new Bounce Curriculum Resource, please register your interest at www.bounceinc.com.au/schools.
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| What is the impact of sweating out HPE in top-end NT schools? | | 
School children undertaking Health and Physical Education (HPE) outdoors in the 'top end' of the Northern Territory are regularly exposed to an extreme climate of environmental heat and intense humidity, which can cause students to be 'listless' or 'restless' and voice negative feelings about physical activity.
Dr Brendon Hyndman from Charles Darwin University looks at strategies that could be considered to ensure more comfortable engagement in outdoor HPE, despite such environmental heat.
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| 10 Links we Like | | 
With about a quarter of Australian children now overweight, it's about time schools started delivering the mandated hours of PE and sport, as well as teaching health literacy.
Read more about why HPE must be seen as an investment in the future health and well-being of our youth in this article from the Brisbane Times, as well as other links we like, below.
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| Game-based learning and using Visible Thinking Routines - asking meaningful questions | | 
The use of game-centred approaches like Teaching Games for Understanding (TGfU) and Game Sense, and the use of Visible Thinking Routines offers a model that extends our students thinking and creates spaces to communicate effectively and collaborate in teams to solve real problems, all of which are important tools for our students as they move into the workplace and into the global community.
In the latest Active & Healthy Magazine special issue on game-based learning and teaching in HPE, this article by Mel Hamada from Yokohama International School in Japan includes a mix of factual, debatable and conceptual questions to engage our learners in the work that they are doing.
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| Participation in the 2015 Associations Matter Study | |  ACHPER is participating in a landmark research project into association membership across Australasia. The 2015 Associations Matter Study will investigate the reasons members belong to associations, and the importance of the activities performed by associations to provide practical information. This study is being conducted by Survey Matters so you can be sure that the research is being conducted to the highest standard.
ACHPER members, please keep an eye out for this correspondence next week and take the opportunity to contribute to this vital sector research by telling us what matters to you!
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