ACHPER SA Awards

  

ACHPER SA Win Innovative Association Award

On World Teachers Day 2021 (October 29, 2021) ACHPER SA received the highest Association Honour at the Educators SA World Teachers Day Awards, held at the iconic Wine Centre. ACHPER SA were awarded the 2021 Innovative Association Award, which recognises ACHPER’s innovative and creative professional learning structures and opportunities. ACHPER SA is so proud that across a network of 60 professional educator associations, and a community of 15,000 educators in SA, we were awarded this honour for the work we do to support our ACHPER members and all Health & PE (HPE) professionals to be the best educator they can.

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Excellence in Health & Physical Education Awards

ACHPER SA, with the support of Credit Union SA, are pleased to provide 2 Excellence in Health and Physical Education Teaching Awards:

  • Norma Jenner Memorial Award – Primary School HPE Excellence teacher
  • Howard Mutton Memorial Award – Secondary School HPE Excellence teacher

These awards recognise and reward South Australian teachers who:

  • model outstanding pedagogical practices
  • build the capacity of their colleagues as HPE professionals 
  • develop healthy and physically active learners.

Teachers from Government, Catholic and Independent sectors are encouraged to apply.

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Spirit of ACHPER Award

‘Spirit of ACHPER –The Janet Harper Award’ is in recognition of a true champion of ACHPER. This award, first presented in 2016, is in memory of our dear ACHPER friend and dedicated PE Week Chairperson for 18 years, Janet Harper, who sadly passed away from Cancer in 2016.  Janet, an ACHPER Fellow was a major contributor to ACHPER’s vision, mission and objectives through a significant number of areas since 1992. She encouraged people to join ACHPER, attend conferences and was always recognised at the annual PE Week dinner. Janet was always so passionate about young children, ACHPER, PE Week and her colleagues.

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