Personal Development, Health and Physical Education (PDHPE) develops the knowledge, understanding, skills and attitudes important for students to take positive action to protect and enhance their own and others’ health, safety and wellbeing in varied and changing contexts. PDHPE provides students with the opportunity to enhance and develop resilience, connectedness, and learn to interact respectfully with others.
Physical education is fundamental to the acquisition of movement skills and concepts to enable students to participate in a range of physical activities – confidently, competently and creatively. The study of PDHPE in K–10 aims to enable students to develop the knowledge, understanding, skills, values and attitudes required to lead and promote healthy, safe and active lives.
Students learn to develop knowledge, understanding, skills, values and attitudes that enable them to:
Students will study the three content strands in the PDHPE syllabus:
Health, Wellbeing and Relationships
This strand focuses on students developing the knowledge, understanding and skills important for building respectful relationships, enhancing personal strengths and exploring personal identity to promote the health, safety and wellbeing of themselves and others. Students develop strategies to manage change, challenges, power, abuse, violence and how to protect themselves and others in a range of situations.
Movement Skill and Performance
This strand focuses on active participation in a broad range of movement contexts to develop movement skill and enhance performance. Students develop confidence and competence to engage in physical activity.
Healthy, Safe and Active Lifestyles
This focuses on the interrelationship between health and physical activity concepts. Students develop the knowledge, understanding and skills to empower them to make healthy and safe choices and take action to promote the health, safety and wellbeing of their communities.
Assessment in PDHPE is based on the three strands above and includes, but is not limited to, a variety of research and project activities, presentations, practical skill observations and a final exam.
Students who have completed the Stage 5 course have developed a range of skills useful for further study in Stage 6. They relate and build onto the subjects such as Personal Development, Health & Physical Education, Community and Family Studies, Biology and Food Technology offered in Stage 6.
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