Students at Good Samaritan engage in Physical Education/Sport each week. All students participate in the School Athletics and Cross Country Carnivals. Eligible students participate in the Swimming Carnival. After these carnivals squads are chosen to represent the School at Regional and Diocesan Carnivals. Students can then be selected to compete at MacKillop and State levels. Good Samaritan has a clear policy regarding student participation in sporting gala days and representation at competitive sports. Parents are asked to become familiar with this policy. 

This term in  PE, (Physical Education) Year 4  will be engaging in: 

PE - Get Active

Students will perform and apply critical and creative thinking to generate, create and access solutions to movement challenges and refine movement skills in a variety of situations. The students will focus on throwing and catching, AFL and Volleyball skills. Cross country running skills will also be developed throughout this unit in preparation for the school Cross Country Carnival. 

This term in PDH Year 4 will be engaging in:

opportunities to develop their self-management and interpersonal skills, including leadership, communication, collaboration, problem-solving, persistence and decision-making through movement and physical activity. 

This term in PDH, Year 4 will be involved in two units that focus on the  content strands of “Health, Wellbeing & Relationships” and “Healthy, safe and active lifestyles”. 

The first unit involves supporting a whole school approach (PB4L) to explicitly teaching the following social and emotional skills as well as skills essential for classroom expectations. 

Topics include: 

Active listening - What do good listeners do, Following teachers instructions

Good communication - What good speakers do, Communicating with teacher/adults, Communicating with peers, the role of Verbal & non-verbal communication, Asking for help

Group work - Think, pair, share class strategy, Partner work, Small group work

Managing challenges - Agreeing and disagreeing, staying on task 

Zones of Regulation - Role of emotions, managing emotions.

Our second unit focuses on Personal Identity/ Relationships/ Mental Health & Wellbeing Students explore how success, challenge and overcoming adversity strengthens identity. They investigate how emotional responses vary in depth and strength and describe how  their own and other’s skills and strategies contribute to healthy and safe outcomes. This is taught through the concept of “Growth Mindset”.

‘Growth Mindset’ is a concept, based on the research of Dr Carol Dweck and is primarily supporting students to develop resilience.  Resilience is an important quality for children to develop if they are going to flourish. According to Carol Dweck’s research, people have two different mindsets: a fixed mindset or a growth mindset. A fixed mindset is the belief that intelligence can't be changed. A growth mindset is the belief that success is the result of practice, effort and hard work.

 PE: Adapting Physical Activity

Students will adapt movement skills to improve accuracy and control in a variety of contexts. Students will participate and use equipment in a variety of games and modified sports including skills needed for participating in AFL and Volleyball. Students will focus on throwing and catching skills and cross country running skills in preparation for the school Cross Country Carnival.