Rob Malpeli is based at The Knox School, Victoria. Rob works across multiple schools throughout Victoria, but also other states and he has been a leading light in senior physical education for over 30 years. His texts and resources are used in Victoria, NSW, Queensland, Western Australia, and New Zealand.

Professor Amanda Telford (PhD) is a teacher and researcher in health and physical education, wellbeing, physical activity and educational leadership within the National School of Education, Faculty of Education and Arts at ACU. Amanda has over two decades experience in senior learning and teaching leadership roles as a former secondary teacher and academic across four universities including: Associate Dean Education (Learning & Teaching) Deputy Head of School (Learning & Teaching), Interim Associate Dean (Partnerships), Course Co-ordinator for the Master of Education and Director/program manager of Health and Physical Education teacher education degrees. Amanda is a multi- award-winning teacher, researcher and author, she has co-authored over 100 learning and teaching publications including over 50 peer-reviewed journal articles and over 50 textbooks and book chapters used nationally and internationally at secondary and tertiary level. Amanda’s has collaborated on more than 45 research projects (over 3 million dollars of grants) with a learning and teaching, physical activity and/or wellbeing focus. As a Cofounder and Codirector of Peak Phys Ed with Rob Malpeli Amanda has been the Conference director of the Discovery Health and Physical Education Conferences since 2009 supporting thousands of teachers nationally.

Claire Stonehouse lectures at Deakin University in Health Education, Student Wellbeing and Sexuality Education in both primary and secondary pre-service education. Claire has worked in many sectors of the community, and has experience writing curricula and educating young people. Her areas of interest include: sexuality education; the educational impact that parents have on their children; and opening up conversations about mental health.

Lee Anton-Hem has over 20 years' experience as a physical education specialist. She currently lectures at RMIT University, Victoria and teaches part-time in schools.

Dr Dean Dudley is a former Health and Physical Education Head Teacher and Director of Sport and now works as a physical education academic at Macquarie University. He is Senior Lecturer and Researcher of Health and Physical Education at Macquarie University, as well as Vice President (Oceania) of the International Federation of Physical Education and Chief Examiner (Personal Development, Health, and Physical Education) for the NSW Board of Studies and Teacher Education Standards. Dean was Expert Consultant on the Quality Physical Education Guidelines for Policymakers published by UNESCO in 2015. His research is focused on the assessment and reporting of physical education and the development of observed learning outcomes pertaining to physical literacy.

Sam Watkins has taught physical, health and outdoor education, in both Melbourne and Perth. He currently teaches at Peter Moyes Anglican Community School, Western Australia.

Emmé Wild has been involved in curriculum planning and writing for the School Curriculum and Standards Authority in Western Australia. Emmé is currently Head of Sport at St Hilda's Anglican School for Girls, Western Australia.

Learning objectives: listed on each chapter opener in clear, accessible language

Wellbeing check-in activities: developed with Clinical Psychologist Dr David Bakker from MoodMission. Each activity introduces students to a specific strategy, based on scientific research, that is designed to improve their wellbeing.

Investigations: scaffold research topics and experiments and allow students to conduct their own investigation into a topic. Students practise their data analysis skills and how to present results.

Case studies: create authentic connections between Health & Physical Education knowledge and real-world applications. Feature perspectives from diverse social and cultural groups, including First Nations peoples.

Face to face: activities designed to be completed in pairs or groups, and provide opportunities for debate and collaboration and improved teamwork skills. Students explore different movement skills and practise games and sports.

Fast facts: short bites of information and data that are designed to engage and interest students while building knowledge and creating real-world connections.

Review, reflect, extend activities provide differentiated summary questions to review student knowledge and explore topics further. Chapter reviews: questions ranging in complexity to further build knowledge and help apply concepts.