Syllabus outcomes and content
Personal Development, Health and Physical Education K-6 (2024)
Self-management and interpersonal skills
Outcomes
- explains and applies self-management and interpersonal skills in a range of contexts PH2-SMI-01
Content
Self-management skills are enhanced by choices and actions
- Apply problem-solving and decision-making actions to enhance learning
Interpersonal skills promote positive interactions and collaboration
- Apply interpersonal skills to enhance positive and respectful interactions
- Demonstrate respectfully winning, losing and accepting decisions
- Apply communication and cooperation skills in group activities to promote inclusion
Personal Development, Health and Physical Education K-6 Syllabus © NSW Education Standards Authority (NESA) for and on behalf of the Crown in right of the State of New South Wales, 2024
Syllabus outcomes and content
Personal Development, Health and Physical Education K-10 syllabus (2018)
Health, wellbeing and releationships
Outcomes
- demonstrates a range of interpersonal skills that build and enhance relationships and promote inclusion in various situations PD2-10
Content
- explore how success, challenge and overcoming adversity strengthens identity, for example:
- explain how persistence and meeting challenges strengthens identity
- propose ways to respond positively to challenge and overcoming adversity, eg positive self-talk, optimistic thinking and help-seeking behaviours, appropriate expression of feelings
- explore how overcoming a challenge or adversity can unite a group of diverse people
- make positive contributions to group activities, for example:
- make contributions to group discussion following agreed rules
- demonstrate assertive responses and disagree in appropriate ways
- work in a group to achieve a set task or goal
Other syllabus links
Learning experiences will also support but not explicitly teach the following:
Learning across the curriculum
Critical and creative thinking
Students are provided with opportunities to think critically about the qualities and attributes that build resilience and enhance and maintain caring and respectful relationships.
Personal and social capability
Through opportunities to work collaboratively, students develop their personal and social skills and an appreciation for the different insights and perspectives of their peers and community.
Personal Development, Health and Physical Education K-10 Syllabus © NSW Education Standards Authority (NESA) for and on behalf of the Crown in right of the State of New South Wales, 2018
