PDHPE (Personal Development, Health and Physical Education) teaches primary school children about nutrition, healthy eating habits, physical activity, and developing responsible behaviors. It aims to help children understand why a balanced lifestyle is important. Statistics show many children consume too much saturated fat and don't meet activity guidelines. PDHPE encourages a healthy lifestyle and decreasing issues like obesity by educating children to value themselves and make safe decisions. Parents and teachers working together can further emphasize the importance of PDHPE for children's well-being.

1. PDHPE
Rationale
Outlining the importance of PDHPE in
primary schools
Miss Trikas 6T class

2. Importance of PDHPE
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It is vital for primary school children to learn about the importance of
nutrition, the goal is to help children to understand why having a healthy diet
is so important, and to teach children about developing healthy eating
habits.
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PDHPE teaches our children to be happy and healthy. It is important for our
children to learn how to be responsible people in our society.
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Learning PDHPE will develop general and relevant knowledge and skills.
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PDHPE encourages students to value themselves and to respect others.
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PDHPE is an important subject because it teaches children to make safe
decisions about being healthy.
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Importantly PDHPE allows students to learn about being physically active, to
have fun and to learn how to work together as a group and as a person in a
society.

3. Getting The Statistics
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Research has shown that a large amount of children don’t meet the basic
healthy eating recommendations.
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Over the last 25 years, rates of obesity have risen in many countries around
the world, including Australia.
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The 2007 Australian National Children’s Nutrition and Physical Activity
Survey showed About one in four boys and girls (23%) were classified as
overweight or obese.
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Many children consumed an excessive amount of saturated fat, which is a
risk factor for cardiovascular disease.
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On the days surveyed, over half of the boys (55%) and two-thirds of the girls
(66%) aged between five and eight years met the number of pedometer
steps recommended by the Presidential Council on Fitness and Sport 2002.

4. Encouraging A Healthy Lifestyle
• PDHPE places an importance on a
healthy lifestyle for children.
• Learning about being healthy will
encourage children to live a balanced and
healthy lifestyle.
• Decreasing problems such as obesity and
issues related with illness.

5. What Can Parents Do?
• Importance is lacking on PDHPE, parents
and teachers can work together to
educate their children about living a
healthy and active lifestyle.
• Making PDHPE an important and valued
part of our children’s lives will benefit them
in a positive way.

6. Thank You!

7. Thank You!