PDHPE (Personal Development, Health and Physical Education) in schools is important because it teaches children skills beyond exercise. It allows them to explore independently, set and achieve goals by problem solving using physical activity. Through PDHPE, children learn about themselves, relationships, and their place in the world. PDHPE also teaches an awareness of a physically active and socially just lifestyle for both individuals and communities. It helps children move and communicate with competence and confidence in a fun way using techniques like Teaching Games for Understanding and Game Sense.

1. Why PDPHE in Schools?
Because PDHPE is more
than an ‘exercise class’
Through the teaching of the various PDHPE
subjects and strands, children develop the
skills they need to become responsible,
forward-thinking and independent problem
solvers, who value themselves and others

2. Children are able to explore and
discover more autonomously;
They learn to set and achieve
goals by thinking through
problem solving using physical
activity.
In doing so, they learn about
themselves, interpersonal
relationships, and their place
within the world, and the value
of positive attitude toward self
and others.

3. PDHPE teaches an awareness of the
importance of a physical lifestyle, and
appreciation of a healthy and socially just
lifestyle in both an individual and
community framework

4. PDHPE teaches
children to move
and communicate
with competence
and confidence

5. Particularly when using
the Teaching Games for
Understanding approach,
and the Game Sense
technique, children are
able to develop these
learning outcomes
in a natural way that
concretes their
acquisition
while at the same time
HAVING FUN!