PE COURSE DESCRIPTIONS, OUTLINES & Forms

Healthy Active Living Education (Core Classes)

PPL1O - This course equips students with the knowledge and skills they need to make healthy choices now and lead healthy, active lives in the future. Through participation in a wide range of physical activities, students develop knowledge and skills related to movement competence and personal fitness that provide a foundation for active living. Students also acquire an understanding of the factors and skills that contribute to healthy development and learn how their own well-being is affected by, and affects, the world around them. Students build their sense of self, learn to interact positively with others, and develop their ability to think critically and creatively.

PPL2O - This course enables students to further develop the knowledge and skills they need to make healthy choices now and lead healthy, active lives in the future. Through participation in a wide range of physical activities, students develop knowledge and skills related to movement competence and personal fitness that provide a foundation for active living. Students also acquire an understanding of the factors and skills that contribute to healthy development and learn how their own well-being is affected by, and affects, the world around them. Students build their sense of self, learn to interact positively with others, and develop their ability to think critically and creatively.

PPL3O - This course enables students to further develop the knowledge and skills they need to make healthy choices now and lead healthy, active lives in the future. Through participation in a wide range of physical activities and exposure to a broader range of activity settings, students enhance their movement competence, personal fitness, and confidence. Students also acquire an understanding of the factors and skills that contribute to healthy development and learn how their own well-being is affected by, and affects, the world around them. Students build their sense of self, learn to interact positively with others, and develop their ability to think critically and creatively.

PPL4O - This course enables students to further develop the knowledge and skills they need to make healthy choices. It places special emphasis on how students can maintain the habits of healthy, active living throughout their lives as they make the transition to adulthood and independent living. Through participation in a wide range of physical activities in a variety of settings, students can enhance their movement competence, personal fitness, and confidence. Students also acquire an understanding of the factors and skills that contribute to healthy development and learn how their own well-being is affected by, and affects, the world around them. Students build their sense of self, learn to interact positively with others, and develop their ability to think critically and creatively.

Personal Fitness Classes

PAF2O, PAF3O, PAF4O - These focus courses emphasize committed and enthusiastic participation in a variety of highly challenging physical activities that promote lifelong healthy active living and personal physical fitness. Students learn movement skills, fitness training methods and principles, methods for improving and maintaining personal fitness and physical competence, safety and injury prevention. Students will set challenging personal fitness goals, develop communication and social skills and focus on achievement based personal fitness outcomes.

Outdoor Education

PAD3O - Refer to Course Outline Below....

PAD4O - Refer to Course Outline Below....

Introductory Kinesiology

PSK4U - This course focuses on the study of human movement and of systems, factors, and principles involved in human development. Students will learn about the effects of physical activity on health and performance, the evolution of physical activity and sport, and the physiological, psychological, and social factors that influence an individual’s participation in physical activity and sport. The course prepares students for university programs in physical education and health, kinesiology, health sciences, health studies, recreation, and sports administration. 

Prerequisite: Any Grade 11 university or university/college preparation course in science, or any Grade 11 or 12 course in health and physical education

Leadership Studies

IDC4U - This course is identified as an interdisciplinary offering.  Thus a focus on diverse learning expectations and styles is maintained.  The course offers a highly motivating practical and theoretical forum for student learning and achievement. Students will utilize the constructs of organizational theory, institutional leadership, and physical activity program management to develop and implement meaningful school based and community based events.  These will serve as the research foundations for a discourse into recreational organization, travel and activity.  Achievement of the interdisciplinary expectations will be assessed as a record of student learning.