PDHPE teaches primary school students the skills, values, and attitudes needed to lead healthy, active lives, including topics like road safety, peer relationships, nutrition, and personal identity. Through PDHPE, students develop communication, decision making, problem solving, interaction, and movement skills. PDHPE is an effective subject because its lessons are engaging, informative, and fun while achieving the syllabus objectives and developing cross-curricular skills in a way that encourages fair play.