Year 4 Health – Term 2 (WA Curriculum): Staying Safe in Our Community

What this unit covers

In Term 2, Year 4 Health in the WA Curriculum centres on the unit “Staying Safe in Our Community”.

Students develop critical thinking skills to make safe decisions at home and school, learn permission strategies, and explore healthy lifestyle choices that promote safety and wellbeing.

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. Identifying Safe and Unsafe Situations at Home
2. Making Smart Safety Decisions at School
3. Understanding When and How to Ask for Permission
4. Learning to Say No and Set Boundaries
5. Reporting Unsafe Situations and Getting Help
6. Staying Safe Online and Digital Permission
7. Sun Safety and Physical Activity for Health
8. Creating Our Class Safety Action 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 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.