YEAR 8

ENGLISH

LITERACY SUPPORT – YEAR 8

CORE SUBJECT – TWO SEMESTERS

N.B. This subject is by invitation only. Only students identified by the College as having significant Literacy Learning Support needs will be offered a place in this subject .

Learning Focus:

The Year 8 Literacy Support group has been developed for students who find some difficulty with writing and interpreting text. As an alternative to a Languages subject, the curriculum is designed to support understanding of text and also improve the students’ ability to express their thoughts in writing.

Victorian Curriculum Strands:

The program has a focus on grammar, spelling, listening and writing skills to enhance the students’ learning and self-expression.

Initially the program is English-based, but then progresses into other subjects like Science and Humanities in which the language-specific vocabulary may be confusing and complex.

The students are taught to decode the information in the text books and gain a better understanding of the course content being taught in these classrooms. This supports their learning in the subjects studied so they are able to achieve better outcomes across a range of curriculum areas.

HEALTH & PHYSICAL EDUCATION

HEALTH & PHYSICAL EDUCATION – YEAR 8

CORE SUBJECT – TWO SEMESTERS

Learning Focus:

In Year 8, students continue to develop their skills through the Sport of Hockey, Gymnastics, Softball and Australian Rules. They will also have the opportunity to learn and practice specialised skills in once-off lessons through the Sports Education Program. Students will participate in physical activities that develop health related and skill related fitness components and, create and monitor personal fitness plans.

Health and Physical Education in Year 8 allows students to refine a range of specialised knowledge, understanding and skills in relation to their health, safety, wellbeing. They develop specialised movement skills and understanding in a range of sports such as Lacrosse and European Handball. They analyse how body control and coordination influence movement composition and performance and learn to transfer movement skills and concepts to a variety of physical activities. Students explore the role that games, and sports, outdoor recreation, lifelong physical activities and rhythmic and expressive movement activities play in shaping cultures and identities.

Victorian Curriculum Strands at Level 8:

The Health and Physical Education discipline is organised into two strands, each with their own 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

• Moving the body • Understanding movement • Learning through movement

Unit Focus Areas

In Year 8 Health & Physical Education students will study a full year of Physical Education in both Semester One & Two

Semester One: • Practical Units • Topic 1: Fitness • Topic 2: Hockey • Topic 3: Gymnastics (ropes, beam, bar, trampoline/vault and rings) • Topic 4: Sport Education

Theory Units • Topic 1: Moving with Skill • Topic 2: Building Successful Teams • Topic 3: Influences during adolescence