PDHPE is important because it encourages students to live happy, healthy, responsible, and productive lives by enhancing their overall health and wellbeing. It teaches students to value themselves and others, make informed life decisions, and obtain lifelong involvement in physical activity. PDHPE covers different strands that link to being healthy across physical, mental, social, interpersonal, and spiritual dimensions.

1. Why is PDHPE important?
Personal development, health & physical
education encourages students to live
happy, healthy, responsible & productive
lives enhancing their overall
health & wellbeing.

2. PDHPE Teaches students to:
• Value themselves & others
• Make valuable & informed life decisions
• Obtain lifelong involvement in
physical activity

3. Physical
Personal Development,
Health & Physical
Education Mental Health Spiritual
•Is a KLA requirement
•Covers all the different
strands which link to being
healthy Social

4. Interpersonal Decision
The Primary PDHPE Active Lifestyle
Relationships Making
program educates
children on a Growth & Personal Child
Development Health Choices Protection
wide variety of
topics & issues.
Games &
Here are just a few... Sports
Safe Living Sexuality

5. PDHPE is a fundamental subject for all
students as it teaches them vital
skills which are relative to
life situations.