Students learn about:

• Physical preparation
  • Pre-screening
  • Skill and technique
  • Physical fitness
  • Warm up, stretching and cool down
• Sports policy and the sports environment
  • Rules of sports and activities
  • Modified rules for children
  • Matching of opponents, eg growth and development, skill level
  • Use of protective equipment
  • Safe grounds, equipment and facilities
• Environmental considerations
  • Temperature regulation (convection, radiation, conduction, evaporation)
  • Climatic conditions (temperature, humidity, wind, rain, altitude, pollution)
  • Guidelines for fluid intake
  • Acclimatisation
• Taping and bandaging
  • Preventative taping
  • Taping for isolation of injury
  • Bandaging for immediate treatment of injury.

Students learn to:

• Analyse different sports in order to determine priority preventative strategies and how adequate preparation may prevent injuries
• Critically analyse sports policies, rules and equipment to determine the degree to which they promote safe participation, eg heat rules, rugby union scrum rules
• Evaluate strategies an athlete could employ to support the body’s temperature regulation mechanisms
• Analyse the impact of climatic conditions on safe sports participation
• Demonstrate taping and bandaging techniques, including taping the ankle, wrist and thumb
• Evaluate the role taping plays in both the prevention and treatment of injury.

Extract from PDHPE Stage 6 Syllabus. © 2009 Board of Studies NSW.