Year 5 Health – Term 3 (WA Curriculum): Building Respectful and Healthy Communities

What this unit covers

In Term 3, Year 5 Health in the WA Curriculum centres on the unit “Building Respectful and Healthy Communities”.

Students explore health messages and develop skills to establish and maintain respectful relationships within their communities.

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 Reliable Health Messages in Our Community
2. Evaluating Health Information from Different Sources
3. Understanding What Makes a Respectful Relationship
4. Building New Friendships with Confidence
5. Recognizing and Responding to Bullying Behavior
6. Challenging Disrespect and Discrimination
7. Managing Changing Relationships as We Grow
8. Creating a Action Plan for Healthy Community Relationships

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.