PDHPE Foundation Healthy Living Homeschool Unit

PDHPE Foundation Healthy Living Homeschool Unit

Help your child build healthy everyday habits with this practical, engaging Health and Physical Education unit designed especially for homeschooling families.

Created for children in their first year of school, this unit includes 10 flexible lessons exploring food, water, movement, rest, sleep, hygiene, dental care, emotional wellbeing and healthy daily routines. Children learn through practical activities, discussions, sorting, movement, role-play, drawing and simple hands on investigations.

The unit also helps children recognise body signals such as hunger, thirst, fullness and tiredness, identify trusted adults who can help them, and understand how everyday choices can support both physical and emotional wellbeing.

Topics include:

• What it means to live a healthy life
• The five food groups
• Building a balanced lunchbox
• Listening to hunger, thirst and fullness signals
• Movement, rest and sleep
• Creating a healthy and safe home environment
• Personal hygiene and handwashing
• Caring for emotional wellbeing
• Caring for teeth and practising toothbrushing
• Planning a healthy daily routine

Designed for homeschooling

Each lesson is designed to take approximately 30–45 minutes and can be shortened, extended or completed over several sessions to suit your child’s needs and attention span.

Activities include discussing, sorting, drawing, movement games, creating healthy meal and lunchbox ideas, practising hygiene routines, exploring body signals, completing simple investigations and developing healthy routine charts.

Written work can be replaced with verbal explanations, pointing, matching, photographs, drawings or parent-scribed responses, making the unit flexible for different learning styles and abilities.

What is included:

• 10 complete lesson plans
• Clear learning intentions
• Discussion questions and practical activities
• Support and extension ideas for every lesson
• Simple assessment opportunities
• Final assessment task and assessment criteria
• Suggested resources and learning materials
• Hands on health, hygiene, movement and wellbeing activities

This unit provides families with a clear and manageable way to teach Healthy Living at home while helping children develop practical skills and routines they can use in everyday life.