PDHPE is important for promoting healthy lifestyles and physical activity in kids. It also encourages self-understanding and understanding of others. The main focus of PDHPE is to help students develop self-confidence, self-acceptance, and the ability to act in their own and others' best interests through physical, social, cognitive, and emotional growth. PDHPE also guides students on how to build positive relationships and make good health and safety decisions.

1. Why is PDHPE important?
 PDHPE is important because it promotes a healthy
lifestyle.
 It helps kids in maintaining a physically active lifestyle.
 PDHPE encourages an understanding of oneself and
also an understanding of others.
 Helps students to see the importance of decision
making that leads to effective and responsible actions.

2. Main Focus of PDHPE
 The study of PDHPE aims to help students with their self-
confidence and self-acceptance and also the ability to act in the
best interest of themselves and also others. This is the
physical, social, cognitive and emotional growth and development
patterns of PDHPE.
 PDHPE also guides students in the appropriate way to interact
with their family, peers and teachers in order to help with their
feeling of belonging and also to help form relationships.
 The development of understanding and coping with conflict
resolution, negotiation, roles, responsibilities and community
expectations. These are all apart of the development and
maintenance of positive interpersonal relationships.

3. Main Focus of PDHPE
 The importance of making good health decisions and
how making the wrong health decision can impact you.
 Getting good guidance in terms of appropriate health
attitudes and behaviors. These are all factors
influencing personal health choices.
 Helping students to recognise situations where their
personal safety may be at risk and how they can
prevent these situations from happening or how to
protect themselves. This is living and learning in a safe
secure environment.

4. PDHPE helps to …
The study of PDHPE helps to maintain a healthy balanced
lifestyle through Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs. It helps to
guide students through their:
• Physical
• Mental
• Emotional
• Spiritual
• Social
• Intellectual health.
These are all crucial aspects to helping children live a happy,
healthy life.

5. Most importantly PDHPE
helps children to have fun
while learning at the same
time about the core values of
life and being happy and
healthy!