PDHPE Rationale

The Importance of Game Sense approach in PE Classes.

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 What is Game Sense?

• Game sense is a teaching approach which provides opportunities

for students to engage with and modify games.

• Students are encouraged to develop their skills and understand

tactics/strategies to participate in the game.

• Charlesworth (1994, Cited in Pill, 2013) states that the game

sense approach challenges the traditional approach of teaching
PDHPE by having a greater emphasis on skill building.
Game sense & Fundamental Movement Skills

“Having mastery of the Fundamental Movement Skills such as

throwing, catching, running and jumping opens up a vast array of
sport, leisure and recreation options for the individual”.(Board of
Studies, 2007)The key focus of game sense approach is to enhance
students fundamental movement skills, this is developed through
game play, sports, gymnastics and other recreational activities.
Fundamental movement skills

Teachers guide for

assessing students
achievements of
fundamental skills.
(Retrieved from:
("Clavering Primary
School - FUNDAMENTAL
MOVEMENT SKILLS",
2019)
Strengths for using Game Sense Approach

Positive
learning
Student environment
collaboration
(Strategies & (Emphasis on
Games are tactics) FUN!)
modified to cater
to the students’
Promotes student needs
engagement
Greater emphasis
on skill building
 Link to the PDHPE Syllabus
Pill (2013) suggests that primary school children
are becoming less physically active. Therefore,
the Game Sense teaching approach seeks to
develop students social and physical skills.
Students develop their skills by forming positive
relationships with their peers, building on their
self-efficacy and an appreciation of healthy
living.
Throughout their primary years students will acquire the
following values and attitudes towards PDHPE (PDHPE
Syllabus, 2007. Pp.17):
• V1 refers to a sense of their own worth and dignity
• V2 respects the right of others to hold different values and
attitudes from their own
• V3 enjoys a sense of belonging
• V4 increasingly accepts responsibility for personal and
community healthy
• V5 willingly participates in regular physical activity
• V6 commits to realising their full potential.
Parent Involvement in PDHPE

Why should parents be involved in the PDHPE curriculum?

• To actively support your child’s learning outside the school environment
• Develop a positive relationship between the parents and the school
• Wider appreciation of different communities
• Children will value the importance of learning through parental
engagement
• Overall, parents will feel more confident about their child’s education

LET’S GET ACTIVE! J

References:

• Pill, S. (2014). An appreciative inquiry exploring game sense teaching

in physical education. Sport, Education and Society, 21(2), 1-19.
• Clavering Primary School - FUNDAMENTAL MOVEMENT SKILLS. (2019).
Retrieved from
http://www.claveringprimary.org.uk/sport/fundamental-movement-
skills
• PDHPE K–6 | NSW Education Standards. (2007). Retrieved from
https://educationstandards.nsw.edu.au/wps/portal/nesa/k-
10/learning-areas/pdhpe/pdhpe-k-6-syllabus
• Pill, S. (2013). Using Appreciative Inquiry to explore Australian football
coaches' experience with game sense coaching. Sport, Education and
Society, 20(6), 1-20.