Rationale
- 1. The importance of PDHPE in Primary Schools.
- 2. ADVOCATING PDHPE AND ITS IMPORTANCE IN PRIMARY SCHOOLS • PDHPE is important and should be essential in primary school curriculum as it provides awareness to students in leading a healthy lifestyle. • Informing students about PDHPE allows them a greater chance at achieving and maintaining a healthy wellbeing. • It also allows students to have control over their own lives and express feelings, make positive decisions and healthy and safe choices. • PDHPE gives students the opportunity to develop team skills and relationships. • They will also develop tolerance and learn to value differences in others. • PDHPE encourages physical activity in maintaining a healthy and high quality of life but also in order to understand the body. • It is important that PDHPE is educated in primary schools as it has the potential to improve the quality of life of not only the students but all individual’s within a community.
- 3. What Students Learn and Develop in PDHPE PDHPE is important in primary schools as students will learn about: • Active Lifestyles • Games and Sports • Growth and Development • Interpersonal Relationships • Personal Health Choices And learn • Safe Living When learning about PDHPE, students will develop: • Problem Solving skills • Interacting skills • Decision-making skills • Communicating skills and • Moving skills
- 4. Preventions when PDHPE is educated. Educating students in PDHPE in primary schools can help prevent: • Health Problems • Diseases • Obesity • Stress • Poor Hygiene • Drug Use • Poor co-ordination • Low Self-esteem • Low Self-Confidence • Social Issues • Violence • Depression • Bullying • Child Pregnancy • Body Image Issues • Discrimination • Abuse • Peer Pressure • Smoking • Negative Decision Making
- 5. What can you do as parents to help encourage the importance of PDHPE in young children? • Pack healthy lunches for children so that they can understand the importance of healthy choices from an early age. • Allow children to make decisions for themselves when necessary. This will develop confidence, positive decision making and allow children to learn from their errors. • Give children a choice and explain why it is important to make positive choices. • Make sure children participate in physical activity every day whether it be playing a sport, having play time at home or just helping around the house. • Develop a close relationship with your children so that they feel comfortable discussing topics such as sex education, bullying, drug use, even insecurities and changes. • Be a role model to your children portraying the correct way to communicate, speak and interact.
- 6. PDHPE IS IMPORTANT FOR ALL STUDENTS IN PRIMARY SCHOOL! K6.boardofstudies.nsw.edu.au,. (2014). Personal Development, Health and Physical Education (PDHPE) | K-6 Educational Resources | Board of Studies NSW. Retrieved 7 May 2014, from http://k6.boardofstudies.nsw.edu.au/wps/portal/go/personal- development-health-and-physical-education-pdhpe Loryn Morawsky 16726606