PDHPE is a key learning area in primary school that focuses on physical, mental, social, and spiritual health. It teaches students about their body, healthy lifestyle choices, and encourages respect for oneself and others. PDHPE helps students lead active, healthy lives by providing knowledge on nutrition, relationships, growth, and safe living. It also develops important life skills and promotes lifelong commitment to health and physical activity.

1. Personal Development, Health
and Physical Education

2. PDHPE
• PDHPE is one of the 6 key learning areas in the
primary school curriculum
• It focuses on all areas of health including:
physical, mental, social and spiritual.
• It encourages respect for both yourself and
others
• It promotes knowing how to be safe in your
environment and making informed decisions
• It teaches students about the body, how it
works, how it changes etc.

3. Why is PDHPE important?
• Students don’t only learn about
getting active but also how to lead a
fully healthy lifestyle.
They learn about nutrition,
interpersonal relationships, healthy
choices, growth and development,
personal identity and safe living.

4. Benefits of teaching PDHPE
PDHPE helps student not only with leading an
active and healthy lifestyle, but also teaches
them valuable skills that they will use in
everyday life.
PDHPE teaches:
Communaicton
Interacting
Moving
Problem solving
Decision making

5. Get Active
PDHPE is also just FUN! It gets students out
of the classroom enjoying themselves and
thinking about their bodies. PDHPE provides
the framework for a life long commitment to
valuing health and physical activity.