PDHPE (Personal Development, Health and Physical Education) is an important key learning area in primary school for three main reasons. It helps build students' self-image and resilience through personal development. It promotes responsible decision making and a healthy lifestyle through health education. And it encourages an active lifestyle and fundamental movement skills through physical education. The overall goals are to foster self-esteem, cooperation, informed decision making, and a lifelong love of physical activity to develop responsible and caring community members.

1. Why teach PDHPE in Primary School?
PDHPE - A Key Learning Area
Personal Development
-builds positive self image, resilience and relationships.
Health
-promotes responsible actions through informed
decision making
Physical Education
-promotes active lifestyle and moving skills

2. Personal Development
Aims
• Build individual self esteem, acceptance
and understanding of life’s changes.
• Team work promoting cooperation,
tolerance, understanding, resilience and
positive relationships
• Foster a sense of belonging.

3. Health
Aims
• Informed decision making skills
• Communication and problem solving skills
to enhance health, relationships, safety
and confidence
• Awareness of impact of decisions on
lifestyle

4. Physical Education
Aims
• Improve quality of life and
physical development in
everyone.
• Competence in fundamental
movement skills, coordination
and games sense.
• Lifetime love of activity, and
benefits to health and well being.

5. Final outcome
• Good health means more than playing
games and eating well.
• Awareness of social, mental, physical and
spiritual aspects of well being.
• Build responsible, productive, caring
members of society.
Reference
• Board of Studies NSW, (2006).PDHPE K-6 Syllabus