ACHPER is pleased to announce the awards of ACHPER Australia Life Members and Fellows. This year, we welcomed Craig Fosdike LMACHPER, President of ACHPER SA, as a Life Member, based on an outstanding nomination from SA's Board. ACHPER QLD nominated Glenn Amezdroz FACHPER, former Vice President of ACHPER Australia, for the National award of ACHPER Fellow, and ACHPER NT also successfully nominated Carolyn Knutsen FACHPER , current NT President, as a Fellow. You can read more about their history of service here and learn more about what outstanding members of AC ..read more

The ACHPER Australia AGM is being held on 31 May 2022. The Board invites eligible nominations for: Director Positions on the ACHPER Australia Board - 1, 2 and 3 year term positions available, including National President. National Awards - Life Member, Fellow, National Honour and National Service awards. Get involved today! Nominate yourself or someone you know. All nominees must be current financial or Life Members of ACHPER, meet the appropriate specified eligibility criteria and have their nominations endorsed by the relevant ACHPER State Branch. See criteria and further details in the no ..read more

As schools go back across the country and in the approach to a federal Election, we urgently need to do more to keep our kids safe on the roads and to get them and their families moving more.    To drive this change, ACHPER has joined an alliance of 13 health, transport, education and climate organisations in presenting the Three Transport Priorities to the federal member for Wentworth, Dave Sharma MP, the Shadow Asst Minister for Treasury, the Hon. Dr Andrew Leigh MP and the Member for Indi, Dr Helen Haines MP at a presentation in Parliament on Monday 14th February. All three a ..read more

With much sadness, we share that a truly inspirational gentleman, HPE educator and our current ACHPER SA Co-President, Craig Johncock, passed away on Boxing Day after a long battle with illness. A passionate long term member and supporter of ACHPER, Craig was awarded the prestigious National Fellow Award in 2019, for his outstanding engagement with the HPE community, leadership of the profession and commitment to the Board of ACHPER SA and National ACHPER representative forum.   A most respected and admired leader of Sport and Physical Education including for 18 years at St John’s Grammar ..read more

We are delighted to bring you the first ACHPER Advocate for 2022 with all the optimism and energy that the New Year brings – the Year of the Tiger. 2022 is meant to be a messy but promising year, as professional associations like ours continue to design, adapt and deliver services to the HPE and sport community and to you, our cherished ACHPER members, under ever-changing COVID guidelines.   As you’ve read in our opening story, we have lost an amazing member of the ACHPER family, Mr Craig Johncock, who served as ACHPER SA’s President and co-President until he passed away on Boxing Day las ..read more

We had 120 schools and estimated 55,000+ students take part in National HPE Day on 1 September 2021. Whilst this number was lower than previous years, we understand the toll that extended home schooling has taken on the teaching of HPE and sport. Despite this, we had some amazing entries from schools who celebrated HPE Day in lockdown and congratulate them on the sensational videos they created and shared on their school and centre pages with the hashtag #HPEday and #HPEday2021. After much agonizing and consideration by our Directors on National Board, we have awarded the following ..read more

As 2021 draws to a close, we look back over the year that was – the year we though COVID19 would be behind us – and can only shake our heads in wonder in that all of ACHPER managed to pivot and adapt their services to you and the wider community under continuing challenging circumstances. It was heart-breaking (again) to see that some professional learning events around the States were postponed or cancelled, but also amazing to see the online and on-demand PD alternatives that have emerged in this context. As we send this to you in November, we see the adaptations on offer via the Teachers in ..read more

The ACHPER Active & Healthy Schools Committee recently changed its name to the ACHPER Health Promoting Schools Committee to align with the WHO Health Promoting Schools guidelines and to assist existing HPS networks here in Australia. The overall role of the ACHPER HPS Committee is to: Advise ACHPER on strategies to extend ACHPER’s connectedness with teachers who work in the health education sector, and with prospective members in this sector; Identify opportunities to extend ACHPER’s profile within health education and particularly the teacher education sector; Develop contributions in th ..read more

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