March 2025

ACHPER is turning 70!

It's our 70th birthday this year!

Starting out as the Australian Physical Education Association (APEA) in 1955, we became the Australian Council for Health, Physical Education and Recreation, the name ACHPER which we all know and trust today.

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National President’s Update

I am very proud to be your President as we reach this amazing milestone of 70 years as Australia's oldest and most trusted professional association for health, physical education and recreation! It is you, our members, partners and community, who benefit from the celebrations that will be happening over 2025 as we roll out an ever-growing calendar of professional learning events, products and professional services across Australia.

It is a great time to join ACHPER Inc as we celebrate 70 years! The ACHPER AGM is fast approaching in May. Calls for nominations through branches for Life Member, Fellow, and National Service awards are out now as well as the call for nominations to National Board. Please check out the call for elected and casual national board nominations here.

Be sure to check out the latest issue of Curriculum Studies in Health and Physical Education. There are two open access articles in this edition, meaning you don't have to be logged on through a subscription portal to read them. As always, if you would like to get access to every article in every volume with special, member-only deals, please email us on ceo@achper.org.au.

As always, free to share the ACHPER Advocate with your networks. We welcome new members, readers and supporters at any time. Click below for what's coming up in your state:

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Associate Professor Sue Whatman

President and Chair of the National Board of ACHPER Australia.

2025 Subscriptions to Curriculum Studies in Health and Physical Education

Time to renew!

If you have been receiving exclusive member access to ACHPER's flagship journal - Curriculum Studies in Health and Physical Education - it's time to renew. Please go to this link to update your membership and contact details to start or continue with online journal access through the Taylor and Francis portal.

Renew here

Tennis Australia - Tennis for Primary Schools Survey

How to know what Quality RRE looks like

Knowing the policy drivers of quality Respectful Relationships Education

Teaching RRE has long been a part of the Health and Physical Education (or PE or HE or PDHPE) curriculum around Australia. But do you know where the policy drivers are coming from?

This article illustrates the relationships between international, national and state policies, and other influences, in shaping the RRE curriculum. It it, we show you how ACHPER can help you make sense of these influences and design something that works for your school and community.

Check out ACHPER's latest podcast

What is Creative PE ?

Professor John Quay and Abbey Boyer from the University of Melbourne chat with Sue Whatman about a holistic pedagogical framework called Creative PE. This framework draws on aspects of various pedagogical models in PE, including foundational movement skills, teaching games for understanding, sport education, and taking personal and social responsibility, to offer a way to plan and teach units that supports meaningful engagement with PE.

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Latest Issue in Curriculum Studies in HPE

Student engagement is important in relation to educational outcomes and overall student wellbeing. Specialist sport programs (SSPs) have several benefits relating to academic outcomes and development of life skills. This mixed methods study aimed to assess whether a relationship existed between enrolment in an SSP and overall engagement in years 7–10, as well as the benefits of being enrolled.

National School Drug Education Survey

For Principals and Educators

We invite Principals, Senior School Staff (e.g., Vice Principals and Head of Year Levels), Teachers, Wellbeing Staff and Educators. Your survey response will help the NSW Ministry of Health and NSW Department of Education, along with researchers from Monash University, Turning Point, RMIT University, Deakin University and the National Centre for Education and Training on Addiction, to inform up-to-date and evidence-based resources to support adolescents in Australia.

Take the survey now

Bookshop under construction! But you can still order with us!

ACHPER Bookshop

UNDER CONSTRUCTION! We are migrating our bookshop to a new website. Stay tuned for an announcement when the Bookshop is back! If you would like to manually order something from our bookshop, please email us on ceo@achper.org.au.

See what Professional Learning Events are coming up close to you or online!

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ACHPER Australia is proud to nationally partner with Tennis Australia and the Australian Sports Commission as a Play Well Affiliate.

ACHPER Australia recognises the Traditional Owners of the lands upon which we live and work and pays respect to their Elders, past, present and emerging. We extend that respect to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, especially within our ACHPER membership, schools and HPE communities, partners and staff.

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