TEACHING PDHPE IN PRIMARY SCHOOL

PERSONAL DEVELOPME

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HEALTHY LIFESTYLE

PERSONAL

EDUCATION

PDHPE RATIONALE

SKILLS ACQUIRED WHILE LEARNING PDHPE

Communication Interacting

Moving

Decision making

Problem solving

AIM FOR STUDENTS AND TEACHERSAim for STUDENTS:

Development of the student as a whole (social, emotional, physical)

Encourages ongoing quality of life

Promotes health in all sectors including social, mental, physical and spiritual health.

Knowledge and values to lead fulfilling lives.

Positive attitudes to a healthy lifestyle

Aim for the TEACHER:

Encourage students to lead healthier lives

Promote better life choices Instilling a love for

physical activity Make links to other

learning areas such as ICT, Literacy and Numeracy

Cover 10 key learning area from the syllabus

Make it fun and interactive for optimum learning.

It is the teacher’s responsibility to make the lessons as effective and engaging as possible to help the students engage in what could be the base of a healthy future.

PDHPE is not just fun and games but instead it carries some of the most important factors to help children progress in their future in leading healthy lives.

As a future teacher I will endeavour to make learning fun and interactive. I will also conduct my PDHPE classes with the game sense approach. This is done by letting the children learn by playing not me instructing.