Year 4 Health – Term 1 (WA Curriculum): Growing Up and Staying Safe

What this unit covers

In Term 1, Year 4 Health in the WA Curriculum centres on the unit “Growing Up and Staying Safe”.

Students explore physical and emotional changes during puberty, develop strategies to manage these changes, and learn protective behaviours to stay 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. Understanding How Our Bodies Change as We Grow
2. Recognising Emotional Changes During Growing Up
3. Everyone Grows at Their Own Pace
4. Asking Questions About Growing Up
5. Using Positive Self-Talk During Changes
6. Being Assertive When We Need Help
7. Recognising Safe and Unsafe Situations
8. Using Protective Strategies to Stay Safe

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.