Year 1 Health – Term 2 (WA Curriculum): Staying Safe and Healthy

What this unit covers

In Term 2, Year 1 Health in the WA Curriculum centres on the unit “Staying Safe and Healthy”.

Students learn essential safety strategies, permission-seeking skills, and healthy lifestyle choices to keep themselves and their community safe and well.

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 to Say Yes and No
2. Using Our Body Language to Communicate
3. Recognising Safety Signs Around Us
4. When to Call for Help - Emergency 000
5. Finding Trusted Adults in Our Community
6. Playing Fair and Respectfully with Everyone
7. Foods That Make Our Bodies Strong
8. Moving Our Bodies to Stay Healthy

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 2

WA terms run roughly 9–11 weeks, and in 2026 Term 2 runs from Monday 20 April to Friday 3 July — 11 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.