Personal Development Health & Physical Education

As part of the Personal Development Health Physical Education syllabus students will learn about a range of health, safety, wellbeing and physical education concepts.

PDHPE consists of three content strands:

1. Health, Wellbeing and Relationships: – examples include personal identity, growth and development, emotional responses, respectful and inclusive relationships, seeking help, protective actions.
2. Movement Skill and Performance – examples include fundamental and specialised movement skills.
3. Healthy, Safe and Active Lifestyles – examples include nutrition, mental wellbeing, personal safety, health and fitness. 
Students explore the interrelationship between health, safety, wellbeing and participation in physical activity.
Students are provided with opportunities to participate in a range of physical activities: 

• rhythmic and expressive movement
• individual/group/team physical activities, eg fitness activities, games and sports 
• initiative/challenge physical activities, eg solving a movement challenge – aquatics 
• lifelong physical activities, eg leisure activities. 

Students develop, strengthen and refine skills across three domains: 

• Self-management, eg decision-making and problem-solving 
• Interpersonal, eg communication, leadership and advocacy 
• Movement, eg health and fitness enhancing movement.