Submission on the Year 0 to 10 Draft Curriculum Content – Health & PE

Our submission is based on the rights of the child, and focused on one curriculum area – Health and Physical Education (Health and PE). This is for a variety of reasons including because this area significantly contributes to the role of education articulated in Article 29 of the Children’s Convention.

We recommend that schools are supported to allocate adequate time to Health & PE, that more diversity is included in the ‘Relationships – Self & Others’ knowledge topic including more information about diverse sexualities and gender identities, that resources are included to help children stay safe both online and when not online, that mental health is explicitly included as a knowledge topic, and that schools are granted flexibility in how the curriculum is delivered including allowing adequate time for play and for local curriculum and knowledge.