Year 8 Health – Term 3 (WA Curriculum): Building Healthy and Active Communities

What this unit covers

In Term 3, Year 8 Health in the WA Curriculum centres on the unit “Building Healthy and Active Communities”.

Students explore health promotion initiatives targeting youth issues and develop strategies for managing changing relationships within their communities.

Lesson sequence (10 lessons)

The unit breaks down into the following lesson-by-lesson sequence — each title below is a teachable lesson, in order:

1. Identifying Health Issues That Impact Young People in Our Community
2. Analyzing Effective Health Promotion Campaigns for Youth
3. Understanding How Peer Relationships Change During Adolescence
4. Developing Communication Strategies for Family Relationship Changes
5. Exploring Community-Based Mental Health Support Programs
6. Creating Peer Support Networks for Health and Wellbeing
7. Investigating Anti-Bullying Initiatives in Schools and Communities
8. Managing Conflict in Changing Family Dynamics
9. Designing a Health Promotion Campaign for Your Community
10. Building Inclusive Communities Through Positive Relationships

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 10 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.