PDHPE teaches students about healthy lifestyles, puberty, and physical skills. It helps students develop communication, problem solving, and social skills. Students learn about their growth, health choices, relationships and safe living. Physical education teaches active lifestyles through sports and exercise, showing students the benefits of an active life. Combining PDHPE allows students to understand their growth and how to maintain health.

1. PDHPE Rationale
Reasons for why it is important to teach Physical
development, health and physical education in primary schools
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2. Why PDHPE?
 Pdhpe is an important part of growing up and becoming
a proper person in society. It teaches our students about
the different ways to live healthy lifestyles by playing
sports and eating proper foods. Personal changes in
bodies such as puberty, is also extremely important to
teach students so that they understand the way their
bodies work and how to deal with the changes that are
occurring.

3. PDH Importance
 Physical Development and health are an extremely important
part of teaching as the curriculum is designed to help students
gain many new skills. These skills include, Communicating
confidently in a variety of situations including within
groups, Problem solving using a range of strategies by selecting
appropriate alternatives when resolving problems and
interacting socially with others and with differing situations.
 Furthermore, students are able to learn about their growth and
development, personal health choices, relationships and most
importantly safe living.

4. Importance of PE
 Students learn to live active lifestyles by doing
gymnastics, dance and different games and sports.
Through keeping active, the students learn the
effectiveness of keeping active and how it makes a person
healthy throughout their lives.

5. PDH and PE
 By combining the two, Personal development, health and
physical education, students are able to understand the
ways they are growing and how to keep healthy
throughout their lives. By teaching this at a young
age, children are able to carry these healthy physical and
mental habits throughout their entire lives.