Health and Physical Education

Health and Physical Education

 

Physical Literacy Individuals who are physically literate move with competence and confidence in a wide variety of physical activities in multiple environments that benefit the healthy development of the whole person. ●     Physically literate individual consistently develop the motivation and ability to understand, communicate, apply, and analyze different forms of movement. ●     They are able to demonstrate a variety of movements confidently, competently, creatively and strategically across a wide range of health-related physical activities. ●     These skills enable individuals to make healthy active choices that are noth beneficial to and respectful of their whole self, others, and their environment.   Physical  and Health Education Canada, “What is Physical Literacy” http://www.phecanada.ca/programs/physical-literacy/what-physical-literacy

 

Health Literacy

Health Literacy involves the skills needed to get, understand and use information to make good decision for health.  The Canadian Public Health Association’s Expert Panel on Health Literacy defines it as the ability to access, understand, evaluate and communicate information as a way to promote, maintain and Improve health in a variety of setting across the life-course.

 

Goals for Westside’s Health and Physical Education Program

 

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;
• the skills and knowledge that will enable them to enjoy being active and healthy throughout their lives, through opportunities to participate regularly and safely in physical activity and to learn how to develop and improve their own personal fitness;
• the movement competence needed to participate in a range of physical activities, through opportunities to develop movement skills and to apply movement concepts and strategies in games, sports, dance, and various other physical activities;
• 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.

 

Course Outlines

Grade	Code	Course	Outline	Enhancement Fee?
9	PPL1O	Healthy Active Living
10	PPL2O	Healthy Active Living
11	PPL3O	Healthy Active Living
12	PPL4O	Healthy Active Living
11	PAF3O	Fitness
12	PAF4O	Fitness
11	PAD3O	Outdoor Ed		*
12	PAD4O	Outdoor Ed		*
12	PSK4U	Kinesiology