We have been fortunate enough to be able to bring Dr Barrie Gordon from Victoria University in Wellington down to run some PLD with interested educators. This is based around the ‘Teaching Personal and Social Responsibility’ model in HPE.

TPSR believe that in teaching physical education we can teach life skills as well. Respect; Effort; Self-direction; Caring; and the transfer of learning to other contexts (Hellison, 2011). Lessons are structured to allow students to experience these goals and to reflect on their own and others behaviours both within the group and individually.