PDHPE in primary schools teaches important life lessons and promotes teamwork, physical activity, and skill development. It provides an outlet for students to work as a team, develop leadership skills through opportunities like captaincy, and make quick decisions. The subject also encourages physical activity and a healthy lifestyle. Students can apply what they learn in class during sports and gain experience in new games to build skills like dribbling and kicking. PDHPE further addresses the physical changes students will experience as they grow up.
1. PDHPE in Primary Schools
Teaching PDHPE in primary schools is particularly important
because it provides the structure for our children to learn
the importance of being physically active as well as
developing and maintaining the ability to be a part of a
team.
2. Promotes Team Work
• PDHPE provides an outlet for students to work as a team
towards a common goal, i.e. winning a game of soccer.
• It allows students the chance to be captain of a team and
develop their leadership skills.
• Decision making skills are developed as a result of working as
a team as often decisions have to be made quickly.
3. Promotes Physical Activity
• During the primary school years students are learning about
the need to stay active and to adopt a healthy lifestyle.
• It provides students with the ability to put what they learn
about physical activity in the classroom into place in the
playground through participating in sport.
4. Development of Skills
• Student’s are provided with the opportunity to develop their
skills in such areas as soccer, basketball, netball etc.
• They are given the opportunity to participate in games that
they may not have played before and to develop ball
handling, dribbling, kicking skills etc.
5. Teach Life Lessons
• PDHPE is a good subject for student’s to learn about the
changes they will experience as they grow up including what
their bodies will go through etc.
• Provides student’s with an avenue to ask questions about
these changes if they are unsure and to realise that their
peers are most likely experiencing the same things.
