PDHPE teaches students about active lifestyles, safety, growth and development, interpersonal relationships, and personal health choices. It helps children develop interacting, communicating, moving, problem solving, and decision making skills. PDHPE is important as it encourages understanding of self and others, develops the ability to make independent decisions that could affect the future, and promotes lifelong involvement in physical activity.

2. PDHPE teaches students about:
• Active Lifestyle and physical activity
• Safe Living- Road safety, personal safety, water safety, safety and home
and at school
• Growth and Development- Identity, the body and human sexuality
• Interpersonal relationships- communication, relationships, families and
peers
• Personal Health Choices- Decision making, nutrition, drug
education, health services and preventive measures.

3. What does PDHPE do?
Children develop:
• Interacting skills
• Communicating skills
• Moving skills
• Problem solving skills
• Decision making skills

4. Why is PDHPE important?
PDHPE is important as it:
• Encourages an understanding of others and yourself.
• Develops an ability for students to make decisions on
their own that could affect their future.
• Promotes lifelong involvement in physical activity.

5. PDHPE encourages an understanding
and values of self and others
• Students who understand and value themselves as individuals and as
members of a groups, exercise more control over their own lives.
• They can identify and express a number of feelings, and appreciate
that the way they think influences how they feel.
• When students understand and value others, they work more
cooperatively in teams and enjoy more stable and satisfying
interpersonal relationships.

6. PDHPE promotes life long
involvement in physical activity
• Regular physical activity is an essential ingredient for the development and
maintenance of optimum health.
• It can improve cardiovascular efficiency and aid efforts to reduce risk
factors of coronary heart disease.
• It is critical for enhancing bone development, controlling obesity, and
improving psychological health and immune status.
• Physical activity is also important in contributing to quality of life.
Participation in active pursuits can be enjoyable, creative and social outlet
that has the potential to build self esteem.