Units, Early Stage 1 – PDHPE
Early Stage 1 sample units to support implementation of the Personal Development, Health and Physical Education K–6 Syllabus (2024).
Syllabus
PDHPE K–6 Syllabus (2024) © NSW Education Standards Authority (NESA) for and on behalf of the Crown in right of the State of New South Wales 2024.
PDHPE K–6 sample units align with the department’s scope and sequence. The structure follows NESA’s sample whole school curriculum plan. Four sample units for Early Stage 1 have been released.
The Term 1 PDHPE unit has had an update. The Road Safety Education lessons have been refined to better reflect alignment to Transport NSW. New graphics have been included in the PE lessons. We recommend downloading and using the new version.
Students explore personal strengths, respectful relationships, and essential safety skills. They learn about hygiene practices and strengthen self-management and interpersonal skills by managing emotions, making decisions, seeking help, and responding respectfully in different situations.
In PE, students develop and refine fundamental movement skills such as balancing, running, sprinting, and catching, while participating in games that build spatial awareness, encourage fairness, and promote safe use of equipment.
This unit teaches students about identity by exploring personal strengths, culture, place, and family connections. They learn about fire safety behaviours and understand how to seek help in unsafe situations.
In PE, students develop jumping and hopping skills and apply them in games that promote fair play, rule-following, and the safe use of equipment. Students strengthen resilience, teamwork, and interpersonal skills by practising persistence, empathy, problem-solving, and responding to feedback.
This unit teaches students to understand body signals that can indicate when a situation is safe or unsafe, the meaning of the word ‘private’ and how to identify private body parts. Through active learning, they explore respectful relationships, consent, both online and offline and ways to protect themselves by seeking help from trusted adults.
In PE, students identify the diverse ways people move and develop side gallop, skipping and throwing skills through games and activities that encourage participation.
This unit teaches students to develop knowledge and skills to promote safety in water and local environments, explore healthy habits that support wellbeing, and learn about the functions of the brain, heart and lungs.
In PE, they develop and practise the fundamental movement skills of kick and strike, participate in Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait games, use feedback to improve their skills, and engage in physical activity for enjoyment.
Resource and vocabulary lists
Resource lists to support the teaching of these sample units, outline the materials required for each unit. These resource and vocabulary toolkits cover all K–6 stages.
Feedback
We value your insights to inform the ongoing refinement of these units. After teaching, we invite you to provide feedback on the unit's effectiveness, what worked well and what could be improved.
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03/09/2026
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