Health, Safety and Physical Education in Early Childhood
PostgraduateCUR-MTEC5042025
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Strengthen your understanding of the nutritional and physical support children need during early development. Get a grip on the fundamentals of upper and lower body motor skills. Extend your studies to focus on child protection policies.
- Study method
- 100% online
- Assessments
- 100% online
- Enrol by
- 23 Nov 2025
- Entry requirements
- Part of a degree
- Duration
- 13 weeks
- Price from
- $2,735
- Upfront cost
- $0
- Loan available
- HECS-HELP and FEE-HELP available
Health, Safety and Physical Education in Early Childhood
About this subject
At the completion of this subject students will be able to:
- establish and explain how to support and promote diverse children's nutritional needs and the impact of nutrition on health and wellbeing across the early years and the lifespan
- apply discipline knowledge about health, safety and physical development to the holistic development of children
- appraise and evaluate motor skills, teaching strategies and legislative requirements to support a diversity of children (including with disability) with varied growth and development across the early childhood years
- plan, develop, design and assess motor learning programs to maximise children’s motor control and motor learning through movement, exercise and physical activity interventions
- Nutrition, Health and Holistic Wellbeing
- Exploring Physical Development Across the Lifespan
- Exploring Motor Development: Appraising and Evaluating Motor Skills
- Creating Learning Environments: Planning, Designing and Developing Programs
- Child Safety and Child Health
This subject will enable pre-service educators to develop a sound understanding of the importance of supporting the physical, social and emotional health and wellbeing of young children for their development and learning. The subject explores the characteristics of children's physical development and motor coordination. Using a play-based approach to curriculum and safe and supportive environment, students will be able to plan quality fundamental movement experiences to enhance the outcomes for young children in the early years making links to the relevant National and State curriculum and Frameworks.
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- Analytical essay relating to a specified unit topic (50%)
- Plan for developing Fundamental Movement Skills of a child (50%)
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Entry requirements
Part of a degree
To enrol in this subject you must be accepted into one of the following degrees:
Core
- CUR-MTE-MAS-2025 - Master of Teaching (Early Childhood Education)
Additional requirements
- Other requirements - Access to Microsoft Office or a unit approved alternative. Access to video creation and editing software.
Study load
- 0.125 EFTSL
- This is in the range of 10 to 12 hours of study each week.
Equivalent full time study load (EFTSL) is one way to calculate your study load. One (1.0) EFTSL is equivalent to a full-time study load for one year.
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Student feedback
8 student respondents between 19 Feb - 11 Mar 2024.
100%of students felt the study load was manageable
100%of students felt this subject helped them gain relevant skills
Related degrees
Once you’ve completed this subject it can be credited towards one of the following courses
Master of Teaching (Early Childhood Education)
PostgraduateCUR-MTE-MAS