This course provides students with opportunities to enhance their own and others’ health, safety, wellbeing and participation in physical activity. Students develop self-management, interpersonal and movement skills to become empowered, self-confident and socially responsible citizens. 

NESA Syllabus information – PDHPE

• Building skills in negotiation, refusal, conflict management and being able to confidently express feelings supports students to build and manage relationships that are caring and respectful. 

• Developing fundamental and tactical movement skills in PDHPE provides students with the opportunity to acquire and master a range of movement skills, understand the health benefits of movement, and have the skills and dispositions to participate in a lifetime of physical activity as confident, competent and creative movers. 

• Self-management skills provide students with the ability to feel greater control over their behaviour, manage and cope in stressful situations and take personal responsibility for their actions. Self-management skills include decision-making, problem-solving and help-seeking skills which are important for managing healthy, safe and active lives.

• BOYD device 

• 64 page A4 exercise book 

• Stationary 

• PE uniform required for all practical lessons 

PDHPE provides a great base for many careers in many areas including: 

• Health (eg nursing, medicine, paramedics, physiotherapy) 

• Education 

• Sport and fitness 

• Community services 

• Public services (eg police and defence) 

https://educationstandards.nsw.edu.au/wps/portal/nesa/k-10/learning-areas/pdhpe/pdhpe-k-10-2018 

• Nil (Any additional excursions / field studies will be an additional cost.)