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Your students know the content. You have taught it. They can talk about it. And then the paper comes back and it is three out of six.

Sound familiar?

This week on The PDHPE & CAFS Podcast I am naming the four mistakes I keep seeing Health and Movement Science students make. Not knowledge gaps. Hab...

Have you ever walked out to the oval on a Wednesday, looked at your class and thought "I honestly do not know if I am teaching this properly"?

If so, you are in good company. And I want to be really clear with you. You are not the problem.

I am a high school PDHPE teacher and I love PE. I love wha...

Let me ask you something. When did you last feel completely confident teaching sex ed?

If you had to think about it, you are in good company. Teaching sexual health and respectful relationships is one of the trickiest parts of NSW 7-10 PDHPE. The content shifts. The students change. And most of us ...

There is one task sitting in both your HMS and CAFS courses that quietly decides how ready your students are for Year 12. And most of us are wasting it.

It is the big student-led research task. In Health and Movement Science it is the Collaborative Investigation. In Community and Family Studies it is...

We need to re-think the way we are teaching Health and Movement Science. I have already heard from teachers whose elite athletes and strong writers have dropped the course. We can fix this.

Mistake 1: Teaching content without bringing it to life

There is a lot of content in this syllabus. I know. ...

Body Image Starts Younger Than You Think

Body image starts to develop as young as two or three years old. Not Year 8. Not the moment a phone lands in their hands. As soon as a child becomes aware they have a body.

And it gets harder to read. Around a third of six year old boys already want a more mu...

You are not a drug researcher. You are not a public health scientist. You are a 7-10 PDHPE teacher with a Stage 4 or 5 class in front of you and a drug education unit coming up in your program.

So what do you actually need to know about vaping? And what can you do that will make a real difference?

Most primary teachers were never really taught how to teach PE.

They were handed a ball, pointed towards the oval and told to get on with it.

No wonder so many NSW primary teachers feel underprepared, under-resourced and unsure when it comes to teaching primary PE.

This week on The PDHPE and CAFS...

If your Year 11 Health and Movement Science students are choosing Collaborative Investigation topics that feel disconnected from the rest of the course, you are not alone.

The CI is compulsory. It is mandated at 20 hours of course time. So we need to make sure it actually supports student learning,...

If you’ve opened the new K-6 or 7-10 PDHPE syllabus and thought, “Where do I even start?” you are not alone.

Between curriculum reform, HMS changes, sport, wellbeing roles, reporting and everything else happening in schools, it is a lot.

This week on The PDHPE & CAFS Podcast, I was joined by our P...

If you’ve ever thought, “I’m just not sporty,” you are absolutely not alone.

So many NSW primary teachers feel confident teaching literacy, numeracy and classroom routines, then freeze when it comes to PE.

Not because they don’t care.

Because somewhere along the way, PE got tangled up with sport....

If you’ve ever stood in front of a class thinking…
“I don’t even like netball… how am I meant to teach it?”

You’re not alone.

So many NSW primary and PDHPE teachers feel this way.

And here’s the truth…

You don’t need to love netball to teach it well.
You just need the right starting point.

This w...