Year 2 Health – Term 3 (WA Curriculum): Building Healthy and Safe Communities

What this unit covers

In Term 3, Year 2 Health in the WA Curriculum centres on the unit “Building Healthy and Safe Communities”.

Students explore how health messages influence choices, learn safety actions, and develop skills to understand others' feelings for respectful community relationships.

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. Spotting Health Messages Around Us
2. How Ads Try to Change Our Choices
3. Making Smart Health Decisions
4. Keeping Our Bodies Safe and Healthy
5. Sun Safety Heroes in Our Community
6. Reading Faces and Feelings
7. Understanding Body Language Clues
8. Building Respectful Friendships

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 3

WA terms run roughly 9–11 weeks, and in 2026 Term 3 runs from Monday 20 July to Friday 25 September — 10 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.