Personal Development, Health and Physical Education (PDHPE)
PDHPE provides students with opportunities to explore issues that are likely to impact on the health, safety and wellbeing of themselves and others – now and in the future. Students also participate in challenging and enjoyable physical activity, improving their capacity to move with skill and confidence.
According to the NSW Education Standards Authority (NESA), students are expected to participate in PDHPE for 300 hours per year in Years 7 to 10.
Stage 4 PDHPE Content:
Health, Wellbeing and Relationships
Students develop 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. They develop strategies to manage change, challenges, power, abuse, violence and learn how to protect themselves and others in a range of situations.
Movement Skill and Performance
Students focus on active participation in a broad range of movement contexts to develop movement skill and enhance performance. They develop confidence and competence to engage in physical activity. Students develop an understanding of movement concepts and the features of movement composition as they engage in a variety of planned and improvised movement experiences. They create and compose movement to achieve specific purposes and performance goals. Through movement experiences students also develop self-management and interpersonal skills to support them to strive for enhanced performance and participation in a lifetime of physical activity.
Healthy, Safe and Active Lifestyles
Students focus on the interrelationship between health and physical activity concepts. They 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. They engage with a range of health issues and identify strategies to keep them healthy, safe and active.
Throughout the course, students develop, strengthen and refine key PDHPE skills that allow them to take action and advocate for the health, safety, wellbeing and participation in physical activity of themselves and others. This includes an emphasis on self-management, interpersonal and movement skills.
Stage 5 PDHPE Content:
Health, Wellbeing and Relationships
Students develop 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. They develop strategies to manage change, challenges, power, abuse, violence and learn how to protect themselves and others in a range of situations.
Movement Skill and Performance
Students focus on active participation in a broad range of movement contexts to develop movement skill and enhance performance. They develop confidence and competence to engage in physical activity. Students develop an understanding of movement concepts and the features of movement composition as they engage in a variety of planned and improvised movement experiences. They create and compose movement to achieve specific purposes and performance goals. Through movement experiences students also develop self-management and interpersonal skills to support them to strive for enhanced performance and participation in a lifetime of physical activity.
Healthy, Safe and Active Lifestyles
Students focus on the interrelationship between health and physical activity concepts. They 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. They engage with a range of health issues and identify strategies to keep them healthy, safe and active.
Throughout the course, students develop, strengthen and refine key PDHPE skills that allow them to take action and advocate for the health, safety, wellbeing and participation in physical activity of themselves and others. This includes an emphasis on self-management, interpersonal and movement skills.
Year 9-10 Elective: Physical Activity & Sport Studies (PASS)
Physical Activity and Sports Studies aims to enhance students’ capacity to participate effectively in physical activity and sport, leading to improved quality of life for themselves and others.
Students engage in a wide range of physical activities in order to develop key understandings about how and why we move and how to enhance quality and enjoyment of movement.
The course includes modules selected from each of the following three areas of study:
Foundations of Physical Activity– Body systems and energy for physical activity, Physical activity for health, Physical fitness, Fundamentals of movement skill development, Nutrition and physical activity, Participating with safety Physical activity and Sport in Society.
Australia's sporting identity - Lifestyle, leisure and recreation, Physical activity and sport for specific groups, Opportunities and pathways in physical activity and sport, Issues in physical activity and sport.
Enhancing Participation and Performance– Promoting active lifestyle, Coaching, Enhancing performance, Technology and performance, event management.
Stage 6 PDHPE Years 11 and 12:
Course description
The Preliminary course examines a range of areas that underpin health and physical activity. This includes how people think about health and physical activity, the management of personal health and the basis for how the body moves. Students have the opportunity to select from a range of practical options in areas such as first aid, outdoor recreation, composing and performing, and fitness choices.
In the HSC course, students focus on major issues related to Australia's health status. They also look at factors that affect physical performance. They undertake optional study from a range of choices. This includes investigating the health of young people or of groups experiencing health inequities. In other options, students focus on improved performance and safe participation by learning about advanced approaches to training or sports medicine concepts. There is also an opportunity to think critically about the factors that impact on sport and physical activity in Australian society.
What students learn
Through the study of the PDHPE course, students learn to develop:
- values and attitudes that promote healthy and active lifestyles and communities
- knowledge and understanding of the factors that affect health
- capacity to exercise influence over personal and community health outcomes
- knowledge and understanding about the way the body moves
- an ability to take action to improve participation and performance in physical activity
- an ability to apply the skills of critical thinking, research and analysis.
Preliminary course
Core topics (60%)
- Better Health for Individuals (30%)
- The Body in Motion (30%)
Options component (40%)
TWO of the following options:
- First Aid (20%)
- Composition and Performance (20%)
- Fitness Choices (20%)
- Outdoor Recreation (20%)
HSC course
Core topics (60%)
- Health Priorities in Australia (30%)
- Factors Affecting Performance (30%)
Options component (40%)
TWO of the following options:
- The Health of Young People (20%)
- Sport and Physical Activity in Australian Society (20%)
- Sports Medicine (20%)
- Improving Performance (20%)
- Equity and Health (20%)
Senior students complete their First Aid certificate
Year 11 and 12 VET- Sport coaching- Certificate III
Sport Coaching is a board endorsed VET subject that allows students to complete workplace training. The subject provides students the opportunity to learn the skills and knowledge required to work in the sport and recreation industry. Students will complete both theoretical and practical lessons to achieve course competencies. Sport coaching does not contribute towards ATAR results, however students are working towards their Certificate III in Sport Coaching. Students will study the following areas in the course:
- General Coaching principles
- WHS in sport
- The sport and recreation industry
- First Aid
- Workplace skills and communication
- Various sports including athletics, netball, basketball and rugby league
- Strength and Conditioning
Sport, Lifestyle and Recreation:
Sport, Lifestyle and Recreation makes a positive contribution to the total wellbeing of students. They develop knowledge and understanding of the value of activity, increased levels of movement skill, competence in a wide variety of sport and recreation contexts and skills in planning to be active. These and other aspects of the course enable students to adopt and maintain an active lifestyle. Students also develop a preparedness to contribute to the establishment of a health-promoting community that is supportive of its members adopting a healthy lifestyle.
This course caters for a wide range of student needs. It can assist students in developing:
• the qualities of a discerning consumer and an intelligent critic of physical activity and sport
• high levels of performance skill in particular sports
• the capacity to adopt administrative roles in community sport and recreation
• the skills of coach, trainer, first aid officer, referee and fitness leader.
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