Overview
About Health
Health provides students with a contextualised strengths-based inquiry of the various determinants that create and promote lifelong health, learning and active citizenship.
Subject summary
| Subject type | Assessment | QCE credits | Contributes to ATAR |
|---|
| General | Internal assessment (75%)
External assessment (25%) | Up to 4 | Yes |
What will students learn?
In studying Health, students will learn about:
- resilience as a personal health resource
- peers and family as resources for healthy living
- community as a resource for healthy living
- respectful relationships in the post-schooling transition.
How will students be assessed?
Students will complete the following assessments:
- investigation — action research (25%)
- examination — extended response (25%)
- investigation — analytical exposition (25%)
- examination (25%).
Where can Health lead?
Studying Health can lead to:
- health science
- public health
- health education
- allied health
- nursing
- medical professions.
More information
Email HPEandTech@qcaa.qld.edu.au or phone (07) 3864 0444.
