Why is PDHPE so important?

The importance of pdhpe in primary education?

it teaches children to mature into healthy individuals, and gives them a benchmark for the needed knowledge and skills to have in life.

Provides children with all the needed knowledge to sustain a healthy lifestyle for the whole life

Encouraging exercise through classroom games

Encourage positive life principles through fun interactive teaching and learning (role play, games, creative arts etc)

Teaching PE in school environments

Teachers should follow the ‘Game Sense’ ideology of teaching

Allow students to have free play and use their imaginations

Encourage active play within a classroom, and in the playground

Encourage cooperative and inclusive active activities in student’s play and structured PE lessons

PDH within a school

Being sensitive around taboo or controversial topics

Always leaving the discussion questions open ended, and never having a closed questions.

Being objective and not allowing personal views to influence teaching

Provides knowledge to children about varies personal and social issues that are evident within the society.

Future Teaching Practices

Encourage healthy eating in the classroom

Allowing students to bring in fresh fruit/vegetables to snack on in class

Encouraging students to bring a bottle of water to class

Always modelling good behaviour around children including food, exercise and general practices (hats, dress etc)