PDHPE is an essential part of the curriculum as it encourages students to develop knowledge, skills and values to become healthy, happy, responsible members of society. It focuses on understanding oneself and others, making informed life decisions, and promoting lifelong physical activity. The key strands taught include developing an active lifestyle, dance, games and sports, growth and development, gymnastics, interpersonal relationships, personal health choices, and safe living. Parents can help by promoting healthy habits at home and ensuring lessons from school are enforced.
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1. THE IMPORTANCE OF PDHPE
By students developing relevant knowledge, skills
and values they are on their way to becoming
healthy, happy, responsible and productive people
in the current and future society. PDHPE is an
essential key learning area as it:
■ encourages an understanding and valuing of
oneself and others;
■ develops an ability in students to make informed
decisions in their lives;
■ promotes lifelong involvement in physical
activity
2. WHAT ARE WE TEACHING YOUR CHILDREN?
We follow a syllabus prepared for us by the Board of Studies which acts as
a guideline for what we are entitled to teach children of that specific age
group. Key strands that we must cover include the following:
Active Lifestyle
This content strand promotes the adoption of a physically active lifestyle in
order to achieve wellbeing. Students are encouraged to investigate options
for recreation and to develop the skills and attitudes necessary for an
active lifestyle.
Dance
This content strand is concerned with developing each student’s ability to
express themselves through movement. There is opportunity for students
to create and perform different dances.
3. Games and Sports
This content strand is concerned with developing each student’s
competence and confidence in a broad range of games and sport skills.
It provides opportunities for students to learn basic games skills in order
to participate for fun, physical fitness, socialisation and achievement.
Growth and Development
This content strand is concerned with the changes that occur
throughout the life cycle and the feelings that are associated with these
changes. It encourages students to develop a sense of responsibility for
themselves and others.
Gymnastics
This content strand provides opportunities for students to investigate
and succeed in a wide variety of basic gymnastic experiences and
challenges. It explores the different ways in which the
body can move and provides practice for the development of skilful
control of the body.
4. Interpersonal Relationships
This content strand involves an understanding of the nature of relationships.
It provides opportunities for students to examine different kinds of
relationships and the factors that help or
hinder their effectiveness.
Personal Health Choices
This content strand examines the process of making lifestyle decisions and
putting them into practice. In particular, it gives students the opportunity to
make decisions about a range of personal health issue, eg drug use.
Safe Living
This content strand is concerned with the protection of individuals through
the promotion of safe environments and practices. It encourages students to
act in ways that will keep themselves and others from harm.
5. Some facts and how you could help:
• Parents are encouraged to promote habits such as
healthy eating and regular exercise at home.
• Although students are taught so many of these areas at
school, they must continue to be enforced in the home.
• Personal Development, Health and Physical Education is
a lifestyle consisting of making healthy choices and
appropriate and responsible decisions.
• Children of the ages of 5-12 years old are encouraged to
participate in a minimal of 60 minutes of Physical activity
a day.
• Numbers for obesity are increasing and Australia now
holds number 2 position of the worlds most overweight
population.