Primary / Elementary Physical Education

The Physical Education program is an activity-based program designed to develop fundamental movement skills required for an active lifestyle. It is a fun-filled program that promotes physical literacy through a variety of movement activities. The emphasis of the program is to promote sportsmanship, cooperation and fair play through movement. Children attended three thirty-minute classes a cycle.

The outcomes of the physical education program encourage learners to develop physically, cognitively, socially, emotionally and spiritually. Process skills are emphasized and students develop movement strategies to react to various situations, solve problems, and make decisions.

The curriculum includes a wide range of movement activities that are employed through the following movement themes.

• Games: Space, Directions and Body Awareness

• Games: Locomotor Skills

• Games: Non-locomotor Skills

• Games: Manipulative Skills – Projecting and Receiving

• Games: Manipulative Skills – Accompanying Apparatus

• Rhythmic Activities

• Body Management and Orientation

• Gymnastics

• Sports Lead-Up Activities

• Fitness

For more information on the curriculum, pleased visit this webpage (Department of Education and Early Childhood Development)