#181 The Truth About Primary PE in NSW

#181 The Truth About Primary PE in NSW

Ever stood on the oval on a Wednesday, 28 kids in front of you and thought "I have no idea if I am teaching this properly"? You are not alone. And you are not the problem. Whether every primary teacher likes it or not, PDHPE is one of our KLAs.  But just because PDHPE has link to sport doesn't mean you discount it.  Whether you a primary teacher or primary PE specialist in NSW, the new K-6 PDHPE syllabus is here and we are about to teach it.  For the last 150 years PE has had a bad rap in NSW, but we are here to change that with you.  This episode provides key changes and shifts from the 2018 to the 2024 K-6 PDHPE syllabus.  The BIG message is this: Fundamental Movement Skills are the backbone to effective PE.  If you want resources, ideas and activities to teach them explicitly:  If you are looking for support in NSW  head to thelearnnet.com/primary [http://thelearnnet.com/primary] Outside of NSW? Across the globe head to thelearnnet.com/pe [http://thelearnnet.com/pe]

#180 Teaching Sex Ed in 7-10 PDHPE with Clarity and Confidence

Feeling a bit rusty when it comes to teaching sex ed? You are not alone. Teaching sexual health and respectful relationships is one of the trickiest parts of 7-10 PDHPE. Students are arriving with earlier and heavier exposure than ever, the questions are getting harder and many of us are trying to teach this content without feeling fully confident or up to date on best practice. This week on The PDHPE and CAFS Podcast, Kelly Bell sits down with Carolyn, a PDHPE and HMS teacher and trained Love Bites facilitator, for an honest, practical conversation about teaching this content with clarity and confidence. Here is what is in it for you: * How to move from "having a chat" to explicit skill-building that starts with the syllabus and outcomes * What a trauma-informed classroom actually looks like * Why you connect with students in a way no one-off wellbeing day ever can You will walk away informed on current best practice, clearer on how to structure respectful relationships teaching across 7-10 PDHPE and with real resources you can put to work this term.

#179 There Are No Bad Foods: Rethinking Nutrition in K-6 PDHPE

Still teaching food with red, orange and green? There might be a better way. This week on The PDHPE and CAFS Podcast, we are rethinking how we teach food and nutrition in our primary classrooms, and why the language we use matters more than we think. Kate McGill is back, and this time we are talking food. We get into the trouble with the traffic light system, why good and bad food labels inject shame into eating, and how to help your students build a peaceful relationship with all foods. In this episode: * There are no bad foods, only foods with different functions * The trouble with sometimes foods and moralistic language * Teaching food as fuel, fun, celebration and connection * The RAVES model, focusing on the how, not just the what * What to say when you hear disordered food talk in your classroom If you teach K-6 PDHPE, or primary generally, this conversation will change the way you talk about food with your students.

#178 The Missed Opportunity in Every HMS and CAFS Classroom

The Missed Opportunity in Every HMS and CAFS Classroom There is one task sitting in both your HMS and CAFS courses that quietly decides how ready your students are for Year 12. Most of us are wasting it. It is the big student-led research task: the Collaborative Investigation in HMS, the Independent Research Project in CAFS. We hand students total freedom too early, they pick a topic that sounds exciting but goes nowhere, and a whole term of research skill-building lands on content they will never be assessed on. In this episode, Kelly shares the 5-point test for a topic that actually works, one that sits firmly in the syllabus, generates real data and bridges straight into Year 12 thinking. HMS teachers, if you are looking for resources that bring this to life, join us inside The HMS Membership at thelearnnet.com/hms [http://thelearnnet.com/hms]. CAFS teachers, find your resources and community at thelearnnet.com/collective [http://thelearnnet.com/collective].

#177 4 Health & Movement Science Mistakes That Are Quietly Costing Your Kids

Some of the most common things we do in Health and Movement Science look like solid teaching, but they're quietly costing our kids marks. In this episode I'm walking you through the four biggest culprits I see again and again: teaching content without bringing it to life, death by PowerPoint, examples that are too generic and the one hurting kids most in year one of the new syllabus, not knowing the difference between the key words. Here's the thing. These aren't lazy-teacher mistakes. They're busy-teacher mistakes. Every one of them happens when you're stretched thin and reaching for what's quick, and every one of them is fixable. With 2026 being the first HSC under the new Health and Movement Science syllabus and no past papers to lean on, the margin for error is smaller than ever. So let's name what's getting in the way, then sort out how to fix it. Explore The HMS Membership: thelearnnet.com/hms [http://thelearnnet.com/hms] Join us at The HMS Summit: thelearnnet.com/summit [http://thelearnnet.com/summit]