This school year, the Ministry of Education has requested that the Human Development and Sexual Health expectations from the The Ontario Curriculum, Grades 1-8: Health and Physical Education, Interim Edition (re-issued 2018) curriculum be taught in all elementary schools. In many classrooms at our school, the health expectations will be covered in classrooms during the months of May and June.
Through this curriculum, “students will develop:
- The living skills needed to develop resilience and a secure identity and sense of self, through opportunities to learn adaptive, management, and coping skills, to practise communication skills, to learn how to build relationships and interact positively with others, and to learn how to use critical and creative thinking processes;
- An understanding of the factors that contribute to healthy development, a sense of personal responsibility for lifelong health, and an understanding of how living healthy, active lives is connected with the world around them and the health of others.”
The Ontario Curriculum, Grades 1-8: Health and Physical Education, Interim Edition (re-issued 2018), pages 3-4
More information can be found on the Ministry Website: http://www.edu.gov.on.ca/eng/curriculum/elementary/health.html
If you have any concerns or questions please contact your child’s teacher.
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