PDHPE

Rationale:

WHAT IS PDHPE ? - PDHPE Stands for – Personal Development, Health and Physical

Education. - PDHPE is one of the six Key Learning Areas in New South Whales

Primary Learning Curriculum.

IMPORTANCE OF PDHPE/HEALTH ISSUES.As society is rapidly shifty, community awareness based around healthy lifestyles should be increasing.

Good Health is determined by better quality of life, less sickness, disability, happier personal, family and social experiences, leisurely activities and positive work choices.

The 8 Strands of PDHPE are :Interpersonal Relationships, Gymnastics, Dance, Games and Sports, Safe Living, Growth and Development, Personal Health Choices and Active Lifestyle.

WHY PDHPE ?

PDHPE is important as it plays a unique role in the development of students knowledge, understanding and practical skills.

Individuals who don’t adopt a healthy lifestyle are taking away opportunities of maintaining a strong mental, physical, social and spiritual wellbeing.

If students are knowledgeable on health issues and have self-control they will be able to make positive lifestyle and enjoy a sense of belonging.

PDHPE informs students that the responsibility of health is not just theirs but societies.

The 5 PDHPE Skills are: Communicating, Moving, Decision Making, Problem Solving, Interacting and Values and Attitudes.

AWARENESS

• PDHPE helps to understand how equity is effected by structures and practices in communities. PDHPE helps to educated individuals of awareness, disadvantages and actions of how decisions are made in regards to health and the establishment of priorities.

• In order to create positive health outcomes fundamental principals, social justice and supportive environments must all be promoted. This can be done by raising awareness through welfare, rights and the dignity of people. 

•  PDHPE is an important key learning area within the primary curriculum as encourages an understanding and valuing of the self and others. This is done by identifying and expressing a range of emotions, and helping students to appreciate the way that they think. Students who are able to understand and value themselves will work more as a team and enjoy more secure, stable interpersonal relationships

MAKE TIME FOR PHYSICAL ACTIVITY

• PDHPE promotes physical activity. Health experts have settled that 30 minutes of moderate physical activity should be completed by an individual everyday. Without this students become inactive, and will suffer weight problems. If individuals are encouraged to partake in physical activity once a day they will receive optimum health.

• Regular physical activity improves cardiovascular efficiency and will reduce coronary heart disease. Physical activity improves bone development, controls obesity, improves immune status and psychological health.

• Participation in physical activity can be innovative, enjoyable and used in a social context to help an individual build self-esteem levels.

IMPLEMENTING PDHPE INTO SCHOOLS

• School programs at all levels have the duty to encourage the physical growth and development of students to support acquisition of movement skills and to nurture positive attitudes towards physical activity.

• Decision- making is the key learning area that students are taught when they first start school. Students will be more likely to use approaches they have learnt and developed in the classroom in their own lives.

• PDHPE focuses on physical, social, emotional and cognitive development patterns of students growth, the development and maintenance of positive interpersonal relationships and factors influencing personal health choices.

Reference• K6.boardofstudies.nsw.edu.au,. (2014). Retrieved 8 May

2014, from http://k6.boardofstudies.nsw.edu.au/wps/wcm/connect/6e4311c5-336e-44f8-8c39-e289d96597a8/k6_pdhpe_syl.pdf?MOD=AJPERES