PDHPE plays an important role in teaching children about healthy eating, physical activity, and safety. It emphasizes the importance of a balanced diet, staying hydrated, living an active lifestyle, and being safe. Through lessons and activities, children learn how their bodies work, the benefits of exercise and water, and precautions to take in different environments. Most importantly, PDHPE shows that maintaining wellness can be enjoyable.

1. PDHPE RATIONALE
PDHPE plays a vital role in a
child’s learning. It teaches
children the importance of
healthy eating, physical
activity and safety.

2. Eat Healthy
•PDH encourages children to eat healthy. It
emphasises how important healthy eating is in
order to keep fit. It teaches children about how
their body works and its nutritional needs.
•Throughout PE lesson students are encouraged to
just drink water throughout the game and are
given many water breaks, emphasising the
importance of drinking water!

3. KEEP ACTIVE
• Children are taught to live a healthy active
lifestyle as they are shown how important it is
to keep active. They are taught many fun
sporting games that keep them fit but are
also enjoyable at the same time. Being active
is all about having fun!

4. BE SAFE
•Children are taught how to be safe in the
outdoors and other places by taking
precautions and always making sure an
adult is with them.
•They are taught about Road safety, swim
safety and many more.

5. IT’S ALL ABOUT
HAVING FUN !! 
Being active is all about having fun. PDHPE teaches
them that it’s all about enjoying themselves and
having fun.
It brings children together as they share a common
interest when playing warm up or invasion games.