HPE



Health and Physical Education focuses on the complexity of, and interrelationships between the psychological, biomechanical, physiological and sociological factors which influence individual and team performances, and investigates the wider social attitudes to physical activity and health issues, from a social perspective, within the community.

In most schools it would be expected that you could teach Health and Physical Education for years 8 – 10 in addition to teaching across an integrated unit. At the senior level (years 11-12) teachers would be expected to teach Physical Education where knowledge in the key content areas; acquiring motor skill, physiological parameters for physical activity and the socio-cultural foundations of physical activity are crucial. Teachers of HPE may well be asked to teach Physical Recreation/Recreation in years 11 and 12.

Details about senior syllabi in QLd can be found at: []; year 10 at: [] and years 8 - 9 at [].

Meet your online mentor: Marion Head
I completed my Bachelor of Education externally in 1987 and followed this with a Bachelor of Business in 1997. I have taught at Centenary Heights (3), Harristown (1) and Toowoomba State High School for the past 20 years. During this time I have experienced part time teaching, Year Co-ordinating, Sport Co-ordinating and the role of House Master. I have had the opportunity to Act as a Head of Department for a period of 15 months. Teaching is a valuable and very rewarding occupation. It has given me many opportunities. I have thoroughly enjoyed meeting people (students and teachers); and travelling to neat places (Canada, Melbourne, Maroon Dam). I am lucky to be a teacher. ||
 * [[image:secondarymentoring/Marion.jpg width="199" height="280"]] || I graduated from Kelvin Grove College of Advanced Education in 1983, at which time I was posted to Quinalow State School and Secondary Department. The complexities of teaching Year 1 and Year 10 in the same day certainly baffled me in those early days.