HPE Week 2021 -  Monday 1  - Friday 5 March

HPE WEEK 2021

Monday 1 March - Friday 5 March

HPE Week is a week that celebrates the role of Health & Physical Education in schools and communities. The aim is to promote the importance of HPE in the Australian Curriculum and highlight the importance of HPE to the learning and development of children and young people.

This year, HPE Week will run from Monday 1 March - Friday 5 March. We will have a program of activities to follow or schools are very welcome to develop their own activities.  

Register Here

Sign in to your ACHPER QLD profile to sign up for HPE Week! Please make sure your profile has your school listed and use the "proceed to checkout" button to complete your registration. Registration is free and there are some great prizes to be won.

To be in the draw simply tag your photos on social media with #HPEWeek or send a picture or program of your HPE Week to us at ACHPER QLD.  HPE week is a fantastic opportunity to showcase the importance, value and fun of physical activity in school communities. Search #HPEWeek to see the amazing photos from our previous programs. You can also watch the highlights from HPE Week 2020 below.

Daily Activities and Extra Ideas

Download the ACHPER QLD Daily Activities and Extra Ideas below. Schools can use some or all of the activities or are very welcome to make up their own! We also have an activity from Speedminton that can be accessed here. Remember to tag and social media posts with #HPEWeek so we can see how your school is celebrating!

Proudly supported by

World of Sport has over a period of 30 years built up an unsurpassed range of sporting equipment and sports clothing with the capability to brand products to individual customer needs in a broad range of the products. This year World of Sport are donating five, $200 sporting equipment vouchers for HPE Week 2021. 

World of Sport is a preferred supplier to QLD Department of Education and Training (DET65864), and would welcome the opportunity help with your equipment or sports clothing needs. Simply visit www.wos.com.au or contact the friendly sales team sales@wos.com.au. 

Sport aerobics is one of the fastest growing sports in Australian schools.  It is an inclusive sport that combines elements of aerobics, dance and fitness into a fun fitness routine. It is suitable for boys and girls of all ages and abilities, and thrives on bringing school students together with their peers to participate in an activity that is both active and exciting! It also requires little-to-no equipment or facilities. FISAF Australia is the national body responsible for the for the development, promotion, and regulation of the sport aerobics competition in Australia.  The FISAF School Stream has been designed exclusively for school students to enable them to participate in the sport in a simplified way. It also provides students with an opportunity to be involved in the FISAF competitions by competing amongst their peers. This year FISAF Australia have donated two packs to the HPE Week prize pool, one for primary and one for secondary levels. FISAF's pre-choreographed sport aerobics packages enable schools to easily deliver a sport aerobics program to students.  The packages include age-appropriate routines via step-by-step video and written instruction, as well as professionally-mixed music for each routine, making it possible for anyone in the school community to use them to teach students aerobics.

Speedminton’s unique format evolved from a desire to play shuttle sports outdoors. It engaged social distancing by design, well before this term became a way of life. Whilst official Speedminton match courts are 12 metres apart, shifting racket sport learning to the school oval lifted constraints from students developing the fundamental striking movement. Speedminton are donating two fantastic prize packs to two of this year's HPE Week participants.
Students have the space and time to learn how to hit and to swing a racket with effect, at their own pace. Eliminating the fear of error or point loss, instils a freedom of movement. Spreading from a court to open spaces invites imaginative game creation and skill challenges, for both individuals and groups. It is particularly effective with junior students, where the mechanics of setting up drills becomes simpler, safer and achieves high levels of participation. Combined with the user-friendly nature of the equipment, this free-style play has produced outstanding racket sport outcomes in over 3500 Australian schools. Speedminton delivers a safe, compliant and easily supervised racket sport activity, with games and drills for all age, skill and enthusiasm levels. Contact Geoff Bannister for more information and a special ACHPER HPE WEEK Speedminton Ten Racket Intro Offer.

Tenpin Bowling Association of QLD has a variety of opportunities for schools and school students to get involved in Tenpin Bowling. The opportunities have been designed to link together to provide a logical pathway for students to learn the sport of Tenpin bowling. Students and teachers absolutely love using the equipment, and the Roll ‘n Strike program provides the perfect opportunity to teach skills that students want to learn! Tenpin are donating a prize pack to HPE Week that includes pins, ball, a carry bag and teacher's manual and lesson plans.
Tenpin activity also includes access to our new digital competition to schools called the Interschool Challenge!  After learning to bowl at school they take their skills to the lanes at the local centre and record their scores against many other kids from a variety of different schools all across QLD and win cool prizes along the way – casual bowlers welcome no experience necessary! The Tenpin Bowling Roll ‘n Strike equipment and program is available to Queensland primary schools free of charge through Tenpins State office, TBAQ.  To receive more information on the Roll ‘n Strike and the Interschool Challenge please visit our website (http://www.tbaq.org.au/schools/) and click on the schools tab to find out more information on how you can include your school with the most inclusive sport today!

Over 55 schools participated in the 2020 HPE Week celebrations. It was an incredible week and ACHPER QLD looks forward to sharing some of the best practice examples gathered across the five days.

Schools could either follow the ACHPER QLD daily activities or put their own program together. It was fantastic to see the emphasis on mindfulness and mental resilience, see below for our first highlighted program from Palm Beach Currumbin SHS. Clothes races, tug-o-wars and giant dance-offs were were some of the most engaging activities amongst many schools.

As always, we were hugely impressed with the enthusiasm and commitment of the participating schools, HPE Week is a highlight of the year for ACHPER QLD. We are very pleased to announce the winners of the World of Sport $200 equipment vouchers and ACHPER QLD Professional Development prizes.

The winners of the World of Sport $200 Vouchers are: Blackwater State School, William Ross State High School, Mackay State High School, St Francis Xavier's and Emerald State High School.

The winners of the free registration to an ACHPER QLD Professional Development Event are: Yarrabilba State School, Windaroo Valley State High School, St Eugene College, St Moncia's College and Woodlinks State School. Winners will be contacted via email with instructions on claiming prizes.

Thank you so much to all schools who participated this year, this is a vital message of health and well-being to our communities across Queensland.

Participating Schools in 2020

Thank you to our Queensland Schools who registered and shared their 2020 HPE Week programs with us!