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This task covers aspects of Middle childhood: Health and Physical education.

Within this area children are to develop:

Interpersonal skills such as communication, building and nurturing relationships, preventing and managing conflict, cooperating and collaborating with peers, and leading initialising and facilitating; ways to encourage others when faced with a challenge (Australia, 2007). These skills are primarily demonstrated through group discussions as they have to; communicate- children are required to talk about their topic and exchange information, build and nurture relationships- children are able to form healthy relationships with peers, prevent and manage conflict- if there are disagreements with in a group they are able to identify the problem and work through it, cooperate and collaborate with peers- children learn how to work sensibly and responsibly in groups, and lead, initialise and facilitate- children will experience leadership roles such as, learn how to be supportive. Children will also develop skills for physical activity such as skills to gain and maintain control and possession; ways to combine skills, balance and stability, and forces and motion; ways to adjust force and speed to perform a movement (Australia, 2007). These skills are shown through physical movement as the children are required to demonstrate particular activities that are apart of the Olympics games such as long jump, high jump, discus, long distance running ect..


 * Below are some links to the Australian curriculum alignment for health and physical education:**

The Department of Education - Curriculum: [] Scope and Sequence - Health and physical education: [|Scope and Sequence.pdf]


 * References**

Australia, D. o. E. a. T. W. (2007). Middle childhood: Health and Physical education/Chance and data scope and sequence Retrieved 15/05/2012, from http://det.wa.edu.au/curriculumsupport/k10syllabus/detcms/navigation/health---physical-education/?page=2&tab=Main#toc5