Name
E.15 Creating opportunities for meaningful anti-racist education in ‘Personal, Social and Community Health’
Date & Time
Friday, November 21, 2025, 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Description

Health and physical education teachers engaging with the Victorian Curriculum 2.0 are meant to create safe spaces where students can move, connect and grow when interacting with others whilst addressing and preventing racism meaningfully in their classrooms. This is incredibly complex, nuanced and difficult human leadership. Generic worksheets just will not cut it and in fact can often make things worse. It is also a whole school challenge and not the responsibility of a singular subject. Anti-racist is an active term, to be anti-racist is about action, thus anti-racist education is active pedagogy in the classroom and school. Anti-racist education is also care work which must include not only student wellbeing but also teacher wellbeing. This is a practical, guided workshop about how to meet your students at their point of need whilst balancing the context specific needs of your school and the curriculum. 

Learning Objective
You will identify the specific school context and issues that arise for HPE at your school and workshop possible solutions with your peers. You will identify the curriculum links in HPE , discuss strategies for collaboration with other subject areas in your school and how this may inform school based planning relevant for your school. You will identify areas with which you may require support and where you can access them.
Curriculum Level
F - 10
Presentation Type
Interactive Workshop (classroom)