PDHPE is an important but overlooked part of the curriculum that deserves more prioritization. Physical education and health are invaluable for teaching children vital life skills, but the small amount of time allocated weekly needs to be used efficiently. Health and personal development covers integral life skills like decision making and problem solving that should be embedded into all learning experiences.

1. PDHPE Rationale

2. PDHPE is an extremely important and often overlooked element of the curriculum.

3. Physical education is an invaluable part of a child’s schooling and should be valued and prioritised.

4. Due to the fact that there is only a small portion of time in the school week allocated to Physical Education and Health it needs to be made the most of.

5. Health and Personal Development covers a huge amount of integral life skills for students and should be imbedded into all learning experiences…

6. …especially the key PDHPE skills of decision making, communicating, problem solving, interacting and moving.