2. • Growth and Development
• Games and Sports
• Gymnastics
• Dance
• Active Lifestyle
• Personal Health Choices
• Safe living
PDHPE plays a role in developing
student knowledge and
understanding in:
3. PDHPE teaches students:
• How to achieve a healthy lifestyle
• To develop and maintain mental,
physical, social and spiritual wellbeing
• Make healthy choices
• Have positive relationships
• How to improve quality of life
KNOWLEDGE UNDERSTANDING
HEALTHY
LIFESTYLE CHOICES
PDHPE
4. Physical Education has been
used for the purposes of
survival, social control, military
fitness, health, holistic
development and citizen
education from the time of the
ancient Greeks”
Anthony Lasker (2000)
5. WHO (2006) estimates 22 million
children in the world under the
age of 5 are OVERWEIGHT!!!
We cannot afford to deny children
PDHPE knowledge
By Leonie Moore, a.k.a,
PDHPE advocator!