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Year 9 & 10 Health and Community Care

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The focus of Health Education is understanding of health in the context of society and the mechanisms necessary to develop and promote health for individuals and communities.

Subject description

Studying Health and Community Care allows students to gain an understanding of health issues and how to promote better health for all. This subject is theory-based and focuses on health promotion. By using an inquiry approach, students will investigate, analyze, and apply social justice practices and principles to advocate and promote justified health promotion. 

 Additionally, this subject provides students with the introductory skills and knowledge required for those working in aged care services and community health care industries. Students will consider how to create individualized service plans in residential, home, or community-based environments.

Skills developed

  • Researching and analysis of a range of data sets 
  • Critical thinking and problem solving 
  • Collaboration and Team work 
  • Facilitating the empowerment of older people 
  • Implementing interventions for older people at risk 
  • Safe work practices 
  • Ethical compliance and independence 
  • Supporting relationships with families

Out of class requirements 

It is expected that students will need to complete approximately 1 hour of homework/study each week due to the demands of this subject. 

What’s important for this subject 

A desire to improve health outcomes for people at school, local community, national and global levels

Year 9
Year 10
Unit 1 - Mental Health
Unit 1 - Organ Donation
Unit 2 - Sustainable Health
Unit 2 - Youth Homelessness
Assignment techniques may include supervised exams, research assignments and multimodal presentations.


Year 11 Courses and Pre requisites
General Subjects:
Health – C in English
Physical Education – C in English
Applied Subject for:
Sport and Recreation
Cert II & III in Health Support Services
Cert III in Fitness


Extra-Curricular Opportunities
Involvement in organisation of school wide positive initiatives
District and Regional Sport
Traineeship opportunities in Year 11 & 12



Last reviewed 23 May 2024
Last updated 23 May 2024