PDHPE in primary schools teaches students important lifelong skills through physical activity, nutrition, safe living, and self-identity lessons. It gets students moving and informed about exercise, healthy eating, safety, and relationships. PDHPE aims to encourage active, safe, and inclusive living that promotes both physical and mental well-being.

1. PDHPE in Primary
Schools

2. Why is it important?
• PDHPE teaches students a variety of skills
that students can carry with them
throughout their life.

3. Physical Activity
• PDHPE gets students involved in a large
variety of activities that get them moving
and outside.
• It informs students about the importance
of exercise and shows how exercise can
be fun, inclusive and challenging.

4. Nutrition
• Students learn about healthy living and
that by eating healthy and taking care of
their body they can feel good.

5. Safe Living
• It also teaches student about how to stay
safe both personally and in a variety of
different situations.

6. Self and Others
• But that’s not all, students also learn about
their own identity and self and their
relationships with others.