K-6 Educational Resources — Board of Studies, New South Wales, Australia
Primary Matters
Primary Matters
From Board Bulletin, December 1998 – Vol 7 No 9 and 10
PDHPE K-6 Update
The final PDHPE K-6 Syllabus, scheduled for release in Term 2 next year, will include minimal change from the draft syllabus released in 1992. New aspects trialled in the Physical Activity for Health and Fitness support document (1997) will be integrated into the final document.
A key change from the draft syllabus is the development of a new set of outcomes that will include outcomes for Early Stage 1. The syllabus project team has drafted a set of 52 knowledge and understandings and skills outcomes covering Early Stage 1 to Stage 3. There are also six values and attitudes outcomes, which apply across all stages. The outcomes are currently being trialled by teachers across the educational sectors. Representative groups of teachers have been providing feedback on the draft outcomes since August, with particular reference to the:
- sequencing of outcomes;
- standard described by the outcomes.