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PDHPE is important, because it teaches
students how to have a healthy well-
being. Hence ensuring that students
learn how to live a healthy physically,
emotionally, socially and spiritual
lifestyle.

How does PDHPE ensure students maintain
a socially healthy wellbeing?
For a student to have a socially healthy wellbeing, they need to develop
and maintain positive interpersonal relationships. Students are taught
skills to positively interact with others such as working co-operatively
as a group member, generating and abiding by rules for common
benefit, developing and maintaining friendships, offering assistance
and encouragement to others and accepting support and assistance.
Ensuring that students develop an understanding of how to develop
interpersonal relationships will help them socially throughout their
lives.

How does PDHPE ensure students maintain a healthy
physical well-being
Regular physical activity is necessary to maintain a healthy well-being as
it can improve cardiovascular efficiency, reduce the chances of heart
disease, enhances bone development, controls obesity, improves
immune status and self-esteem. PDHPE ensures students are
physically active through the subjects active lifestyle, dance,
gymnastics and games and sports. These subjects ensure students
develop skills necessary to for an active lifestyle.

How does PDHPE ensure students maintain a healthy
emotional well-being
PDHPE encourages students to understand and value themselves and
others, through teaching them how to communicate their needs, wants
feelings, ideas and opinions, also through teaching them to listen
attentively and respond appropriately in a range of situations. From
teaching students communication it gives them more control over their
lives, they know how to identify and express their feelings, work more
cooperatively in teams, enjoy interpersonal relationships and become
more tolerant and caring members of the community as they value
difference and respond to others as individuals.

PDHPE also ensures that students are living and
learning in safe environments:
PDHPE ensures students understand which
environments are safe and unsafe by:
- Identifying to students certain situations which may
be unsafe
- Helping students to think of strategies that may
protect them
- PDHPE also helps students develop decision making
skills such as, selecting and adopting safe practices

PDHPE also ensures students
make healthy choices.
PDHPE highlights to students what are appropriate
health attitudes and behaviours.
- PDHPE teaches students how decisions regarding to
nutrition, hygiene, consumerism, drug use, the
environment and disease preventions can impact their
lives. Hence an understanding of how decisions they
make can impact their health empowers students to
make appropriate decisions

PDHPE gives students a deeper understanding of
their growth and development
- PDHPE is important because it gives students an
understanding of their own physical, social, cognitive
and emotional development and an awareness of
changes that occur throughout peoples lives.
- This is important for students to learn because it
increases their confidence, self acceptance and
competence to manage change

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