Sydney Distance Education High School Year 10 Course Overview

Personal Development, Health and Physical Education (PDHPE) contributes significantly to
the cognitive, social, emotional, physical and spiritual development of students. It provides
opportunities for students to learn about, and practise ways of, adopting and maintaining a
healthy, productive and active life. It also involves students learning through movement
experiences that are both challenging and enjoyable, and improving their capacity to move
with skill and confidence in a variety of contexts. It promotes the value of physical activity
in their lives.

• Making meaning, Stress
• Self Talk
• Coping
• Communicating: Negotiating
• Road Safety: Who gets Hurt
• Legal Drugs: Medical and Non-Medical
• Growth and Development: Heredity and Environment
• Sundaze: Undercover
• Sporting Skills
• Orienteering
• Me, Myself, I: What Makes a Relationship
• Dribbling Skills
• Hockey: Hitting, Passing and Receiving
• Tennis: Rules
• Road Safety: Drink Driving
• Illegal Drugs: Marijuana
• Contraception
• Stress: Positive Ways of Coping
• Healthy Food Habits: What are the Nutrients?
• Healthy Food Habits: Diet Pyramid
• Healthy Food Habits : Dietary Guidelines
• Healthy Food Habits: Energy Intake vs. Expenditure
• Best Tennis rally ever
• Touch Football
• First Aid Priorities
• Posture, Skin and Body Sense
• Being Confident
• Getting to Know Yourself
• Rugby League: Evasive Play
• Feeling Good
• I'm O.K, Your O.K
• Some People Think Drug Taking is a Game
• Yoga
• How Do You Feel About Yourself
• Stress and Relationships
• Your Change Plan
• No Risks
• Fitness: Heart Rates and Training Thresholds
• Assessment Task 1: Ongoing Assessment of Lesson Work
• Assessment Task 2: Personal Safety
• Assessment Task 3: Team Games (Research Project)
• Assessment Task 4: Course Examination