PE Week

Physical Education is important every week, but Term 4, Week 5 is the week to celebrate it - save the date for 2025!

Physical Education Week promotes and highlights the importance of Health & PE in the Australian Curriculum to the learning and development of children and young people. All students have a right to receive quality physical education teaching and learning programs. In 2024, 173 schools and 61,873 students registered their involvement in PE Week.

Registrations for 2025 will open in Term 3 - registering your School's participation is FREE and you will receive the free ACHPER SA PE Week Activities Booklet (valued at $59.95) as a thanks for registration. 

Registration Link - Opening Term 3, 2025


How Can Schools Participate?

ACHPER SA have made celebrating easy:

  • Own School Activities
  • Theme Days
  • Free PE Week booklet
  • Physical Education Week Dinner & Awards Night


Theme Days

Our theme days make it easy for you to celebrate Physical Education Week. Each theme day has easy to implement activities, and you can access them for free by registering your School's involvement for Physical Education Week. 2025 theme days will be announced closer to the week. The 2024 theme days were:

  • MINDFUL MONDAY
  • TRADITIONAL GAMES TUESDAY
  • WHEELS WEDNESDAY
  • THROWBACK THURSDAY - Celebrating 40 years
  • FUNDAMENTAL FRIDAY

                          

Physical Education Week Dinner & Awards Night

2025 date to be announced. 

ACHPER SA invites you to a night of networking, food, drinks and good company to celebrate the 2025 Physical Education Week. A night to celebrate active and healthy living with a 3 course meal and drinks package. 

A great way to network; come by yourself, with a colleague/partner or why not book a table and come with your faculty to celebrate all your hard work!

Registration Link - Opening Term 3, 2025

Congratulations to the 2024 major award winners:

- Norma Jenner Memorial Award (Primary Excellence in HPE): Nicole Pfeiffer

- Howard Mutton Memorial Award (Secondary Excellence in HPE): Andrew Mittiga

- Janet Harper Memorial Award (Spirit of ACHPER SA): Russell Brown


Supporters

These events are only made possible through the support of our partners. We value our key alliances, and without these partnerships, ACHPER SA could not run this event annually. Special thanks to our ACHPER SA partners - Credit Union SAFootsteps Dance CompanySACPSSATennis AustraliaTriSkills Australia and Victor Sports (formerly IDM Sports).

Also thanks to our PE Week partner Mt Lofty Spring Water.