Students learn how important health and wellbeing is to themselves and to families, communities and the nation. Students explore the complex interplay of sociocultural factors that support and improve an individual's health and wellbeing. They develop a capacity to respond to health information, advertising and other media messages, enabling them to put strategies into action to promote health and wellbeing in both personal and community contexts.

Students explore how the musculoskeletal and cardiorespiratory systems work together to produce movement. Through practical activities students explore the relationships between the body systems and physical activity, sport and exercise, and how the systems adapt and adjust to the demands of the activity. Students investigate the role and function of the main structures in each system and how they respond to physical activity, sport and exercise.

Students examine some of the ways in which humans understand and relate to nature through experiences of outdoor environments. The focus is on individuals and their personal responses to, and experiences of, outdoor environments. Students focus on the characteristics of outdoor environments and different ways of understanding them, as well as the impact of humans on outdoor environments.