Primary physical and health education (PDHPE) is important to teach in schools for several reasons. It encourages students to develop a healthy and active lifestyle, helps students gain knowledge and skills needed to live fulfilling lives, and promotes physical activity, self-understanding, and informed decision making. PDHPE also teaches students about physical, social, and emotional growth, maintaining relationships, and factors influencing health choices. The classes provide important lessons on safety, adopting active lifestyles, fundamental movement, and skills for better health and movement. As teachers and parents, supporting PDHPE is essential for students' wellbeing and health.

1. The importance of teaching
PE in Schools
Melissa Rolph

2. Why it’s important!
• Teaching PDHPE throughout primary schools
are essential for many reasons
• It is important to encourage kids to live a
healthy and active lifestyle
• Primary PDHPE helps students develop
students knowledge, understanding
skills, values and attitudes needed to live
healthy, active and fulfilling lives

3. • PDHPE helps encourage an understanding and
value of the self and others, promotes physical
activity, emphasises informed decision making
leading to effective and responsible actions

4. • As teachers it is important we teach students
physical, social, cognitive and emotional
growth and development patters, the
development of maintenance of positive
interpersonal relationships and the factors
influencing personal health choices

5. • It is also important that students learn about
living in a safe and secure environment, the
adoption of an active lifestyle, fundamental
movement patterns and coordinated actions
of the body and skills that enable action for
better health and movement outcomes

6. • It is extremely important as parents and as
teachers that we support the importance of
PDHPE in schools for the health and physical
wellbeing of the students
• A positive experience
in PDHPE in primary school
supports positive attitudes
for the future!