Background
In 2024, a large co-educational high school on the Gold Coast was tasked with an all too familiar task: rewriting their Years 7–10 Health and Physical Education (HPE) curriculum to align with Version 9.0 of the Australian Curriculum.
While the leadership team recognised the importance of updating their HPE program, teachers quickly found themselves falling back on outdated resources - simply because they lacked the time to create something new. Despite the curriculum shift, the reality in classrooms hadn’t changed: staff were relying on old textbook-driven lessons and static student workbooks that failed to engage the modern learner.
The Challenge
The school’s HPE department was passionate but stretched. With limited planning time and increasing admin pressure, teachers were still using outdated materials that didn’t reflect current health topics, online realities, or the social challenges students were actually facing.
They had access to other resource providers, but those tools came up short. Most were just a textbook and a generic student workbook - no engaging presentations, no real world relevance, and no support for delivering lessons that truly connected with students. Teachers were still spending hours adapting content just to make it usable, or dealing with behavioural problems because of the lack of engagement from students.
The Go Teach Solution
In late 2024, the school signed on for full access to Go Teach Australia’s all-inclusive secondary HPE program. They needed more than a resource - they needed a fully mapped, ready to deliver solution aligned to the new curriculum and relevant to the world their students live in.
Go Teach provided:
- Complete units for Years 7–10, mapped to Version 9.0
- Lesson presentations, student workbooks, assessments, exemplars, exams, exam answers, unit outlines, scope and sequence, all planning documents.
- Engaging, up-to-date content on topics like digital wellbeing, respectful relationships, and current health issues.
- Consistency across classes, while still allowing flexibility for teachers
- A simple platform where everything was in one place, ready to teach
Implementation & Results
Teachers were able to hit the ground running in Term 1, 2025. The impact was immediate:
- Lessons were no longer dry or outdated - students were finally engaged
- Staff reported significant time savings on planning, prep and resource creation
- Early career teachers gained confidence through structured support
- The Head of Department had complete oversight of content delivery and curriculum alignment
Teacher Feedback
"We were trying to meet the Version 9.0 requirements but stuck using resources that just didn’t reflect our students’ lives. Go Teach changed that. Now our students are engaged and we finally feel ahead, not constantly catching up."
— Head of Department, HPE
Looking Ahead
The school is now part of Go Teach’s 2026 Portal pilot, set to launch in Term 3. After seeing the results in just one term, they’ve committed to embedding Go Teach Australia across all year levels for the next three years, ensuring consistency, engagement and curriculum confidence for years to come.
