Health and Physical Education (HPE) focuses on ensuring students build the knowledge, skills and confidence to be healthy, safe and active through learning about movement, wellbeing, relationships and personal and community health.
Sports Extension Squad (SES) at Clontarf Beach State High School is an elite, selective program designed to accelerate the development of high-potential athletes. With a strong focus on advanced training, transferable athletic skills, and performance excellence, students access high-level coaching, targeted strength and conditioning, and competitive opportunities that support growth across multiple sports. The program also develops leadership, discipline, and resilience, providing a clear pathway into senior school sport and preparing students to perform confidently in high-performance and competitive environments.
Year 7 HPE - Students engage in a variety of physical activities focusing on throwing, catching, kicking, striking, athletics, team-building and leadership skills. They also learn about personal identity, risk taking and being safe.
Year 8 HPE - Students engage in learning experiences focused on understanding adolescent health and wellbeing by investigating physical activity levels, sleep patterns and screen time in relation to government guidelines, while exploring practical strategies to increase participation in physical activity within their local community. They also develop personal and social skills by analysing stereotypes, respect, empathy and diversity, and by applying movement skills with a focus on inclusion, fair play, collaboration, assertive communication and protective behaviours in both relationships and online contexts.
Year 9 HPE - Students will seek to define and understand the current health issues that drugs and alcohol (in particular vaping and e-cigarettes) and mental health pose to adolescence. Students will engage in a variety of net and court as well as invasion games to improve their skills and movement.
Year 10 PTR (Personal Training and Rec) - Term 1 and 3 focuses on Personal Fitness Training. This allows students to explore the professional practices, skills, and responsibilities of exercise instructors within contemporary fitness facilities. Through practical and theoretical learning, students examine the full client pathway, from first contact, communication and rapport-building to facility tours, matching client needs to the services they require. They will then be conducting pre-exercise health screening, creating fitness programs according to fitness guidelines and then implement these programs to suit client needs.
Sport and Recreation is held in term 2 and 4. Students will be conducting tournaments and investigating emerging trends in sport and recreation. Practical leadership skills will be developed through team building activities and delivering fun sport and recreation activities to peers.
Year 10 HPE – (Health and Physical Education) – During Year 10 Health and Physical Education, students develop an understanding of motor learning and sports psychology, while also exploring mental health, the GEM framework, and the systems of the human body. Learning is supported through active participation in a range of physical activities, including volleyball, touch football, Pilates, and gym-based training.
Year 10 Early Childhood Studies (ECS) – The Year 10 Early Childhood Studies program explores child development and well being. Students explore play, relationships, safe environments, and the importance of building strong bodies and being healthy. They will develop an understanding of how positive experiences, nutrition, physical activity, and wellbeing support children's growth and development. This unit lays the foundation for senior Early Childhood Studies.
Physical Education - CBSHS's Senior PE program develops students as physically educated learners through movement, exploring performance about, through and in physical activity. Students participate in a range of physical activities to develop movement sequences and movement strategies, applying body and movement concepts to optimise engagement and performance. They use the scientific bases of biophysical, sociocultural and psychological concepts and principles to investigate, analyse and evaluate performance and support pathways into further study and careers in sport, health and movement-related fields.
Senior Sport and Rec - Students will learn practical and leaderships skills through sport and recreational activities. Units studied over the 2 years include Officiating and Coaching, Community Sport and Recreation, an Aquatics unit which includes learning Live Saving skills and Kayaking and an Adventure in the Outdoors unit culminating in a 3 day camp.
Cert III Health Services Assistance - Connect n Grow's Certificate III in Health Services Assistance provides an entry-level pathway into the health sector, building practical workplace skills to support clients and healthcare teams in settings such as hospitals, aged care and community services. The course typically covers safe work practices (including infection control), communication and teamwork, basic client support tasks, and understanding health workplace procedures—helping learners become job-ready for assistant/support roles while gaining a nationally recognised qualification
Cert III Fitness - The Certificate III in Fitness (through Binnacle Training) prepares students for entry-level work in the fitness industry, developing the knowledge and practical skills needed to work as a gym or fitness instructor or group / team trainer. It typically encompasses anatomy and physiology fundamentals, health screening and safe exercise prescription, delivering group exercise sessions, coaching gym-based programs, and providing basic nutrition and healthy lifestyle advice within scope of practice. Students also learn industry-relevant communication, customer service, risk management and WHS, with structured workplace learning to build real-world readiness.
Early Childhood - Senior Early Childhood Studies program explores play and creativity, literacy and numeracy, wellbeing, and indoor and outdoor learning environments. Students explore how children grow, learn, and thrive through play-based experiences, supportive relationships, and safe, engaging environments, while developing an understanding of practices used in early childhood education settings.
