LITERACY SUPPORT

Practical: Semester One:

• Topic 1: Fitness • Topic 2: Skills Testing • Topic 3: Practical Core Skills: Develop and apply the core basketball skills of shooting, dribbling, passing and footwork

Semester Two:

• Topic 1: Fitness • Topic 2: Skills Testing • Topic 3: Practical Core Skills: Develop and apply the core basketball skills of offensive rebounds and team offence

Theory Semester One:

Theory Units • Topic 1: Nutrition for Good Health, Chapter 11 • Topic 2: Promoting Healthy Communities, Chapter 8

Semester Two:

Theory Units • Topic 1: Safety, First Aid and Sports Injury Management, Chapter 6 • Topic 2: Participation, Teamwork and Fair Play, Chapter 2 • Topic 3: Practical Core Skills: Develop and apply the core basketball skills of offence, game sense, tactics and defense

Victorian Curriculum Strands

Personal, Social and Community Health

• Being healthy, safe and active • Communicating and interacting for health and well being • Contributing to healthy and active communities

Movement and Physical Activity

• Core Skill Acquisition: The students work in small groups (< 5), concentrating on improvement of individual skills, e.g. shooting, dribbling, passing, and footwork. • Game Skill Training: Through the themes of Offence, Defence and Tactics students will develop an awareness of the main moments in a game. • Squad Skill Training: Core group working together on fundamental movement principles, team philosophy, skills and game simulation. • Fitness training and conditioning: Learn the specific fitness components related to basketball and about the human body and its physiological functions and how training affects an individual’s performance.