7–10Personal Development, Health and Physical Education 7–10 Syllabus (2024)

The PDHPE 7–10 Syllabus includes 2 courses:

• Personal Development, Health and Physical Education
• Personal Development, Health and Physical Education Life Skills

The PDHPE 7–10 Syllabus takes a strengths-based approach towards developing the knowledge, understanding and skills students need to enhance their own and others’ safety, health and wellbeing and participation in physical activity in varied and changing contexts.

Students focus on active participation in a broad range of movement contexts to develop movement skills and enhance performance. They develop confidence and competence to engage in physical activity both now and into the future. 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.

Students develop the knowledge, understanding and skills important for building respectful relationships, enhancing personal strengths and exploring personal identity to promote the safety, health and wellbeing of themselves and others. They develop skills and strategies to manage change, challenges, power, abuse, violence and learn how to protect themselves and others in a range of situations. Learning in this subject will empower students to make healthy and safe choices and take action to promote the safety, health and wellbeing of themselves and their communities. They develop skills to take positive action regarding consent, safety, health and wellbeing in a range of offline and online environments. Students engage with a range of health issues and assess strategies to keep themselves and others safe, healthy and active.

Students develop and apply self-management, interpersonal and movement skills to help students become empowered, self-confident and socially-responsible citizens.

Safety and risk management

Schools are required to ensure they follow safety and risk management in delivering the PDHPE 7–10 Syllabus.

For PDHPE Life Skills 7–10:

• Students are required to demonstrate achievement of one or more PDHPE Life Skills 7–10 outcomes.
• Outcomes and content should be selected to meet the particular needs of individual students.
• The focus areas provide possible frameworks for addressing the PDHPE Life Skills 7–10 outcomes and content and are suggestions only. Teachers have the flexibility to select, group and sequence outcomes and content to meet the needs, strengths, goals, interests and prior learning of their students.

Schools must enter students into the correct mandatory PDHPE course in Stage 5, depending on the timetabled hours for PDHPE in Years 9 and 10.