PDHPE rationale outlines how to provide children with the knowledge, skills, and values to live a healthy, active, and fulfilling life. It encourages understanding of self and others to promote cooperation. The curriculum also aims to develop positive relationships and teach children to make responsible decisions about their health and lifestyles through physical activity, understanding life changes, and learning about personal and community wellbeing.

1. Rationale
PDHPE rationale helps outline and give children the
knowledge, skills and values required to live a healthy,
active and self fulfilling life.

2.  It is becoming increasingly important
especially in our youth that we encourage
the learning of healthy lifestyles. This will
allow them to achieve their greatest chance
of attaining mental, physical, social and
spiritual wellbeing. It will give them the
control they will need to make these
decisions. We also aim to create more
positive relationships. It is a responsibility of
all parts of society to understand health, as
it is not only important to understand the
health of self but the health of others now
and for the future.

3.  Encourages understanding of self and
others to work more cooperatively in a
team
 Promotes physical activity by giving
knowledge of amounts of physical activity
required for each stage of life
 Emphasises decision making for
responsible action regarding their own
lifestyles

4.  Physical, social, cognitive and emotional
development to create self confidence and
self acceptance by understanding life’s
changes
 Development of positive interpersonal
relationships to create a sense of belonging
and security
 Factors influencing personal health choices
with more appropriate health attitudes and
behaviours

5.  Values and attitudes: committment to a
holistic healthy and social way of living
 Skills: development and encouragement
of communication, health decisions,
confidence and forming positive
relationships
 Knowledge: understanding about personal
and community health and wellbeing as
well as performance of movement

6.  Skills:
moving, problem solving,
communicating, interacting and decision
making
 Strand: Interpersonal relationships, growth
and development, games and sport,
gymnastics, dance, active lifestyle, personal
health choices and safe living.

7. http://k6.boardofstudies.ns
w.edu.au/go/personal-
development-health-and-
physical-education-pdhpe