In Health and Physical Education, students learn how to enhance their own and others' health, safety, wellbeing and physical activity participation in varied and changing contexts. The Health and Physical Education curriculum offers students an experiential curriculum that is contemporary, relevant, challenging, enjoyable and physically active.

Sacred Heart College students in Year 7-10 engage in a wide range of movement and sports and throughout the curriculum. They also take part in beach fitness lessons and individual fitness testing.

The Health and Physical Education curriculum provides opportunities for students to develop, enhance and exhibit attitudes and values that promote a healthy lifestyle.

In Year 8, the content provides opportunities for students to further examine changes to their identity and ways to manage them. They continue to develop and refine decision-making skills and apply them to a range of situations, as well as in online environments. They investigate health-promotion activities that aim to improve the health and wellbeing of young people and continue to develop critical health literacy skills, including the ability to distinguish between credible and less credible sources of health information.

Students continue to broaden their repertoire of specialised movement skills and knowledge of sophisticated tactical thinking skills, and apply these to an expanding array of physical activity contexts. They build on skills to analyse their own and others' performance and use basic terminology and concepts to describe movement patterns and suggest ways to improve performance outcomes. Students continue to reflect on, and refine, personal and social skills that support inclusive participation and fair play, and contribute to positive team cohesion.

Students will be assessed according to the national Achievement Standards in the following strands:

Health
Personal, social and community
Being healthy, safe and active
Communicating and interacting for health and well being contributing to healthy and active communities.

Physical Education
Movement and physical activity
Moving our body
Understanding movement
Learning through movement

The sports covered in Year 8 are:

Mod-crosse
Badminton
Soccer
Basketball

Folk Dancing
Self Defense
Cricket