PDHPE at St Andrews

Welcome back to St Andrews for another great year of learning in 2023. For our new year 7 parents, welcome to the St Andrews College Community. Personal Development, Health and Physical Education (PDHPE) is a mandatory subject in years 7-10. The PDHPE course in years 7-10 is comprised of 50% practical (physical education) and 50% theory (personal development and health).

Students in years 7-10 have practical lessons once per week in addition to College Sport which is on a Thursday. For students in Physical Activity and Sport Studies (PASS), practical lessons occur 3 times per fortnight.

Students are permitted to wear their full College sport uniform to and from school on days when they have a timetabled practical lesson. Adequate and supportive footwear is required.

It is also a very exciting time for our year 9 students as they begin their elective courses in Child Studies and/or PASS and our year 11 students as they study senior PDHPE, Community and Family Studies and/or Exploring Early Childhood.

During Term 1, students will be learning about the following topics during theory and practical lessons:

• Year 7- Healthy habits and building teamwork and communication
• Year 8- Building respectful relationships and Net & Court games
• Year 9- Relationships & power, respect, inclusivity and diversity, Olympic Sports & Athletics
• Year 10- Planning for their futures and World Sports
• Year 9 Child Studies- Preparing for parenthood
• Year 9 Physical Activity and Sport Studies- Nutrition and its relationship to physical activity
• Year 10 Physical Activity and Sport Studies- Body systems and energy for physical activity
• Year 11 Community and Family Studies- Wellbeing, managing resources, needs, wants, goal setting and communication.
• Year 11 PDHPE- Improving the health of individuals
• Year 11 Exploring Early Childhood- Pregnancy and Childbirth
• Year 12 Community and Family Studies- Groups that experience inequities in society
• Year 12 PDHPE- Factors that affect the performance of athletes

I encourage you to have conversations with your child/children about their learning in PDHPE this term and during the year ahead.

As a faculty, we look forward to sharing with you some of the great things happening in our classes throughout the course of the year.

Mrs Kayla Brogan
Leader of Learning- PDHPE