Year 1 Health – Term 3 (WA Curriculum): Building Safe and Respectful Communities

What this unit covers

In Term 3, Year 1 Health in the WA Curriculum centres on the unit “Building Safe and Respectful Communities”.

Students explore how health messages are shared, learn to create safe environments, and develop skills for respectful interactions within their community.

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. Spotting Health Messages Around Us
2. Understanding What Health Messages Tell Us
3. Moving Safely in Our Classroom and School
4. Following Rules to Keep Everyone Safe
5. Sharing Fairly and Taking Turns
6. Using Kind Words and Actions
7. Solving Problems with Friends
8. Building Our Caring Community

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 3

WA terms run roughly 9–11 weeks, and in 2026 Term 3 runs from Monday 20 July to Friday 25 September — 10 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.