
2025 PDHPE Award winners
2025 PDHPE Award winners ACHPER NSW is pleased to announce winners and highly commended for our 2025 PDHPE Teaching Awards. As always, it’s fantastic to receive a range of nominations

2025 PDHPE Award winners ACHPER NSW is pleased to announce winners and highly commended for our 2025 PDHPE Teaching Awards. As always, it’s fantastic to receive a range of nominations
Beyond PD: Why ACHPER NSW collaborates to make learning stick One-off incursions can be inspiring. They can also fade by recess. As a not-for-profit, ACHPER NSW exists to help teachers

Imagining Tomorrow’s Health: ACHPER NSW Silver Sponsor of the Future Health Symposium 2025 ACHPER NSW is proud to be a silver sponsor of the 2025 Future Health Symposium, a landmark

Bringing Big Data to Life in the HMS Classroom Big data is more than a technological trend or buzzword, it is transforming how we understand, prevent, and treat disease, as

Discover how the menstrual cycle impacts performance, participation and wellbeing — and practical ways teachers can support students in PE and beyond.

Rethinking CAFS assessment in 2025? Here’s what the NESA changes actually mean—and why the IRP still matters for research skills and HSC success.

Discover how NESA’s new rules for Stage 6 Health and Movement Science impact assessment. Practical task ideas, timelines, and compliance tips for 2025.

New NESA guidelines mean IRP, CI & DS are now optional. Learn what’s changed — and why these tasks still matter in HMS and CAFS.

Masterclass 1: Empowering Students Through Health Promotion: Real-World Strategies for Today’s Classrooms In our Term 2 Masterclass, Health Promotion in Action: Equipping Teachers with Real-World Case Studies and Practical Ideas,

What Teachers Said: A Look Back at ACHPER NSW Term 2 Professional Learning At ACHPER NSW, we believe the best professional learning is practical, relevant, and teacher-driven. That’s why every

Masterclass 3: Impactful Teaching About Digital Technologies and Social Media in PDHPE Presented by Karley Beckman – University of Wollongong | Hosted by ACHPER NSW What does it really mean

Celebrating ACHPER NSW Success: National Award Recipients ACHPER NSW is proud to celebrate three of our outstanding members who were recognised at the ACHPER National Awards held in Adelaide earlier

NSW Child Studies 7–10 Syllabus (2025): What’s Changed and How Teachers Can Prepare NESA has officially released the new Child Studies 7–10 Syllabus (2025) — set for implementation in all

Connection, Confidence & Classroom Strategies: Highlights from the ACHPER NSW Early Career Teachers Conference As part of this year’s ACHPER NSW Early Career Teachers Conference, we invited participants to reflect

Beyond the Game: Mastering Social Impact in Physical Education What does it take to create meaningful change in a PE classroom? For Associate Lecturer Sonja Maric, it starts with rethinking

Early Career Teacher Conference: A Day of Learning, Connection and Inspiration More than 30 passionate new PDHPE teachers gathered in Sydney on 6 June for the ACHPER NSW 2025 Early

Record of Changes – NESA update to CI requirements A significant amendment has been made to the assessment requirements of the collaborative investigation. Initially, the syllabus (page 22) stated

Pause. Pivot. Progress: Reclaiming Time in Year 11 HMS June 2025 We’ve reached the halfway point of the new Year 11 Health and Movement Science (HMS) course—a milestone worth acknowledging.

In April 2025, NESA revised two key verbs in its Glossary of Key Words, offering clearer direction on the level of thinking students are expected to demonstrate

Did you know the National Drug Education Principles haven’t been reviewed since 2009? That’s over a decade of change in classrooms, communities, and student needs. To ensure drug education remains relevant and impactful, Monash University is currently leading a national review of the principles.

Navigating the HMS Curriculum Together: Key Insights & Planning Support Last week, we hosted our first HMS Q&A session—a dedicated forum for teachers to collaborate, share insights, and navigate

By Brooke Garland – Kandos High School From Naive Enthusiasm to Classroom Reality As I enter my fifth year of teaching and move into the final phase of being an

Australia’s health 2024 – Get the Resource Pack As a Year 11 and 12 Health and Movement Science (HMS) teacher, staying abreast of the latest health data is crucial for
2024 in review As we wrap up for another momentous year, it’s incredible to reflect on the achievements of ACHPER NSW. We have delivered the largest number of events in
Thank you to our 2024 presenters December 2024 Thank you to our generous presenters this year. Their time, energy and insights are invaluable. Check out the image gallery below. Every
2024 PDHPE Conference Wrap up Over 310 PDHPE teachers and professionals attended the annual ACHPER NSW K-12 PDHPE conference in Sydney in late November. “The PDHPE community were fully engaged

ACHPER NSW is looking for a Professional Learning Officer to join the team.

ACHPER NSW invites academics and researchers from around Australia to submit an Expression of Interest to present a PDHPE Masterclass on the latest research informing school-based HPE programs.

Announcing the winners of our 2024 PDHPE Teacher Awards. Congratulations to both winners and highly commended.

NESA has released the new 7-10 PDHPE syllabus. We give you an overview of key syllabus content updates.