Rationale
- 1. PDHPE represents Personal Development, Health and Physical Exercise. Within PDHPE we focus on 5 important skills • Decision-Making • Problem-Solving • Communicating • Interacting • Moving These skills help us to make better choices, work through issues, improve our socialisation habits and lead a healthy life. *
- 2. * *Students learn ways of coping with the changes the body undergoes over time. *Forming positive interpersonal relationships is encouraged *Students are encouraged to be confident in who they are, and learn skills to accept the diversity of others.
- 3. * • Physical – relates to how our body is able to move, also nutrition • Emotional – how we cope with and recognize how things make us feel • Social – how we interact with our peers and communities • Spiritual – how we think of our sense of belonging, or sense of purpose (note that the is different to religion, which is NOT a part of PDHPE) • Mental – how our minds are developing as we grow
- 4. * *Promotes an active lifestyle that enables students to continue being active past their schooling years *Teaches skills needed for a range of sports in fun, inclusive ways *Daily exercise can help clear the mind, and leads to increased productivity and achievement
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