1. Rationale for advocating teaching Personal
Development, Health and Physical
Education (PD/H/PE) in Primary Schools
Personal Development, Health and physical Education is one of the six key learning
areas in the NSW primary curriculum. The PD/H/PE curriculum formulates an
extraordinary contribution to the overall school curriculum, this is because it is precisely
involved with encouraging the development of the learner as an entire human being.

2. Learners need to be encouraged to be more active and as a result partake in regular physical
activity. Regular physical activity is a crucial component for the development and
preservation of the best possible health.
•It can improve cardiovascular efficiency
•Can aid efforts to reduce risk factors of coronary heart disease.
•It is critical for enhancing bone development
•Controlling obesity
•Improving psychological health and immune status.
Furthermore physical activity is as well significant in contributing to the excellence of life.
Additionally involvement in dynamic recreation can be a pleasant, innovative and a social
means that has the prospective to foster self esteem.

3. Students who comprehend and appreciate themselves as persons and as associates of a
group are:
•Able to implement additional control over their personal lives
•Able to recognize and suitably convey an assortment of feelings
•Able to appreciate the way they think influences the way they feel
•Open to learning more optimistic ways of reacting to circumstances
As a result of this students are capable of making more measured choices and are less
shaped by immediate situations and reactions. Thus this significant learning field offers
prospects for learners to develop optimistic outlooks about themselves and others, to
correspond successfully and thus to act jointly, and lastly to build on and uphold
constructive interactions.
•Encourages an understanding and valuing of self and others

4. •Emphasises informed decision making
leading to effective and responsible action:
•Schools can assist learners to make educated conclusions in regards to aspects that may
perhaps obstruct or encourage the welfare of themselves and others.
• Schools are also a great method of fostering decision making skills and the prospect of
learning by the means of behavioural rehearsal.
• Furthermore school programs are able to help learners become more attentive of the
procedure that is taking place when conclusions are being completed, hence that has the
ability to enhance their acquaintance of alternatives that are obtainable to the student
and as a result are able to foresee probable outcomes.
•Learners are expected to utilize approaches developed and cultured in the school
setting more probable in their everyday lives if they have been developed and practised
over an episode of time.

5. PD/H/PE is all encompassing
PD/H/PE is a significant key learning area; this is because it plays an exceptional part in
the growth of the learner’s knowledge, comprehensions and practical skills that as a result
show the way to better health.
PD/H/PE plays an important role in promoting the health and wellbeing of every
individual.
Personal development, health and physical education is a KLA which is all about having
FUN.....