PDHPE is important because it promotes healthy lifestyles and physical activity in kids. It also helps students develop self-confidence and understanding of themselves and others through physical, social, and emotional growth. The main focus of PDHPE is to guide students in building positive relationships and making 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. Overall, PDHPE is a fun and
exciting way to get kids active
and promote a healthy
lifestyle!