School Sport Unit

Some students with physical disabilities may need support with movement, coordination, and balance. Some may require the use mobility aids such as a walking frame or a wheelchair. Other students may need support with focus and concentration during activities.

However, it is possible to deliver fun and inclusive physical activity opportunities. The SSU has developed a range of resources to engage all students in being active and to support the implementation of whole-school physical activity programs and initiatives such as the 10wC. Many of these resources can be found on the Teaching and learning resources webpage. The most relevant resources include: 

• Sports ability playing cards and Sports ability playing cards 2 which provide information on ways to modify elements of each activity to ensure that every child is able to participate. Cards also provide practical assistance with planning and preparing the activity space. Inclusive activity cards are designed to develop children's skills, confidence and motivation for sports-based activities.
• 10@10 Classroom energisers which are short bursts (5-10 minutes) of 'huff and puff' activity. 10@10 HIIT Workouts are presented in video format and can be easily implemented into daily school routines. All 30 workout videos offer closed captioning. Presenters demonstrate movements clearly. Modifications are encouraged as the teacher deems fit.
• NEW Thinking while Moving (TwM) in Maths and English and Learning to Lead (L2L) programs that have been created to support students to be active whilst learning in curriculum areas. This includes handy, downloadable PDF task cards which are available for digital display or print for use as visual aids.

• Competitive sport - the representative school sport pathway is open to all students, aged between 8 and 19 years. It offers students the opportunity to compete and progress from a school level through to international competition, commensurate with their abilities. Most sports require students to have a disability classification (assessment of disability category). At swimming, athletics and cross country the events for students with disabilities are known as 'multi-class' events. 
• Participation opportunities - the School Sport Unit offers a variety of opportunities for students with disability. These include Boccia, Come-and-Try Athletics, Multi-Sport days and Tenpin Bowling. For more information and 2026 registration details, please see the Disability and inclusion participation opportunities webpage. 
• Professional learning opportunities - school staff can enrol in the Inclusive and adaptive practices in sport and physical activity to learn more about delivering quality sport and physical activity lessons for all students, including those with disability. Participants will learn to use research-based frameworks to modify and adapt sport and physical activity lessons and identify resources available to enhance the delivery of inclusive sport and physical activity.

Teachers and support staff can choose how they wish to record their support student's participation and involvement in the 10wC. As students and classes are unique, it is strongly recommended that the decision on how this is done is made by each class teacher. 

During PSC registration, any class identified as a 'support team' have the OPTION to receive 10wC worksheets. These have simplified activity tracking with the focus is on doing activity every day, not on logging minutes of activities. 

If teachers wish to use 10wC logbooks (3-6 or 7-12) that track weekly activity minutes with their support students, they can:

• download / print logbooks from the 10wC resources page - under 'Recording the challenge'
• contact the PSC team to have printed logbooks sent to their school.

The 10wC activity tracker web app  is also available to support students (in Years 3-12) to track their activity (minutes of activity). Please see the 'Using the PSC 10wC activity tracker web app' (PDF 2200 KB) guide.

If teachers don't want to use worksheets they can be opted out of, and instead teachers can use the PSC team calendar to acknowledge daily activity done by the class.

Please note: Activity tracking methods can vary among students within a team or class. For example, some students may use a logbook or the 10wC tracker app, while others may not log their activities at all.

All teachers can access their school's 10wC e-Wall charts to update their student participants weekly awards in the PSC Tracker by logging in through the '10wC organisation login' - see your PSC Facilitator for the school's login details - 'username' and 'password'. You an easily assign an award level for the whole team for a week or give participants individual award levels. 

10wC final awards default to a bronze level if e-Wall charts are unfilled. Teachers can edit and submit final awards through the e-Wall chart (green button on top right of page). As support students may not have tracked their minutes of activity, teachers can edit their class or student's award levels as appropriate. See the 'Submitting final awards for the 10wC' (PDF 807 KB) guide.