PDHPE DAY TWO

The physical benefits of regular exercise include:

Reduce the risk of dying prematurely
Promotes healthy blood pressure and improves cardiovascular system
Lessens the chance of getting type two diabetes
Promotes a healthy immune system
Improves bone density
Helps regulates blood sugar
Reduced risk of colon cancer
Better ratio of good to bad colesterol
Helps control weight
Builds and maintains healthy muscles and joints
Makes you feel better
Less chance of depression

It is very important for young children to start early developing healthy habits regarding eating and exercise.

It is very important that they don't become unfit or overweight in the first place - hard to turn around later.

PDHPE in early childhood education will help diagnose developmental challenges that individual children may have - Fundamental Movement Skills help in this regard because they cover the whole range of physical development.




Gallahue’s Fundamental Movement Skills consist of:

Managing the body - STABILITY MOVEMENT SKILLS - bending, static balance,stretching and rolling.

Moving the body - LOCOMOTION MOVEMENT SKILLS - running, hopping,skipping, jumping. Sequence locomotion:i.e. galloping, sidestep and climbing.

Managing an object - MANIPULATIVE MOVEMENT SKILLS - catching, throwing , kicking, bouncing and climbing.

The Board PDHPE Syllabus provides teachers with age-appropriate experiences for children which cover the fundamental skills .
There are 5 basic skills that are central to our development:
MOVING. PROBLEM-SOLVING. COMMUNICATING. INTERACTING. DECISION-MAKING.
There are 8 strands of activities to be covered in the PDHDE curriculum: