Pre-Primary Health – Term 1 (WA Curriculum): Knowing My Body and Staying Safe

What this unit covers

In Term 1, Pre-Primary Health in the WA Curriculum centres on the unit “Knowing My Body and Staying Safe”.

Students explore personal identity through understanding their body parts and develop protective behaviours to keep themselves safe.

Lesson sequence (8 lessons)

The unit breaks down into the following lesson-by-lesson sequence — each title below is a teachable lesson, in order:

1. Learning About My Body Parts
2. Understanding Private Body Parts
3. Knowing Who Can Help Me Stay Safe
4. Recognising My Warning Feelings
5. Understanding Safe and Unsafe Secrets
6. Learning About Surprises vs Secrets
7. Practising How to Move Away from Unsafe Situations
8. Creating My Personal Safety Plan

Curriculum codes in this unit

Content codes:

Reading the codes: WA codes (the ones starting with WA) pack the year level, learning area, strand and content number into one string, while the national Australian Curriculum v9 uses a different anatomy that starts with AC9 — same content family, different labels. Our complete WA Curriculum guide decodes both, character by character.

Planning notes for Term 1

WA terms run roughly 9–11 weeks, and in 2026 Term 1 runs from Monday 2 February to Thursday 2 April — 9 weeks for WA public schools. With 8 lessons in this unit, that leaves breathing room for assessment, moderation and the weeks that disappear to carnivals, camps and public holidays — plan the assessable work to land two to three weeks before the end of term rather than in the final week.