Year 5 Health – Term 2 (WA Curriculum): Staying Safe in Our Community

What this unit covers

In Term 2, Year 5 Health in the WA Curriculum centres on the unit “Staying Safe in Our Community”.

Students develop critical thinking skills to make informed safety decisions, learn consent strategies, create emergency action plans, and explore how to maintain safe, healthy lifestyles in their community.

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. Identifying Reliable Health and Safety Information Sources
2. Evaluating Online Health Information for Safety Decisions
3. Understanding Consent: Asking and Responding Effectively
4. Communicating Your Intentions: Verbal and Non-Verbal Cues
5. Practising Consent in Different Situations
6. Creating Emergency Action Plans for School and Home
7. Comparing Food Labels to Make Healthy Choices
8. Recognising Mental Health and Building Community Wellbeing

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 2

WA terms run roughly 9–11 weeks, and in 2026 Term 2 runs from Monday 20 April to Friday 3 July — 11 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.