PDHPE is an important part of primary school education that develops students' physical, social, and thinking skills. It teaches gross motor skills, fitness, health and safety awareness, teamwork, communication, problem solving, and allows students to experience success through physical expression. The PDH component helps students understand themselves and develop safety skills for life.

1. PDHPE is an integral
component of primary
school education.

2. PDHPE develops gross
motor skills, promotes
fitness and athletic
activity and encourages
an awareness of
self, health and safety.

3. When taught in alignment with
the Quality Teaching
Framework, PDHPE can teach
students
interpersonal, communication
and teamwork skills and
promote strategic and logical
thinking as they seek to problem
solve in PE games.

4. PE allows students with high kinaesthetic
intelligence to express their learning and to
experience success at school.

5. The PDH component is
crucial as it allows
students to explore their
notion of self and develop
safety skills for their
environment including
roads, swimming, sun and
at home.