Year 1 Health – Term 1 (WA Curriculum): Growing and Staying Safe

What this unit covers

In Term 1, Year 1 Health in the WA Curriculum centres on the unit “Growing and Staying Safe”.

Students explore how their bodies change as they grow and develop protective behaviours and help-seeking strategies to keep themselves safe.

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. How I Have Grown Since I Was a Baby
2. My Body Parts and What They Do
3. Changes I Can See as I Grow Older
4. Private Body Parts and Personal Boundaries
5. Recognizing Safe and Unsafe Feelings
6. My Body's Warning Signals
7. Who Can Help Me Stay Safe
8. Creating My Personal Safety Network

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 1

WA terms run roughly 9–11 weeks, and in 2026 Term 1 runs from Monday 2 February to Thursday 2 April — 9 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.