Health and Physical Education & Dance

All of our courses enable students to develop both their physical and health literacy. By participating in the wide variety of activities offered, students have the opportunity to gain the knowledge and skills to make healthy choices today and lead healthy active lives in the future.

Our Health and Physical Education courses (PPL), offered in each of grades 9 through 12 allow students to develop physical skills across a wide range of sports and activities as well as acquire an understanding of how their choices and behaviours, as well as various factors in the world around them, affect their own and others' health and well being.

Our Personal Fitness courses (PAF), offered in grades 10 through 12, enable students to develop skills through active participation in a variety of individual and group fitness activities. Students also learn about the many local opportunities and resources that exist to allow continued participation in fitness activities in the future.

For those students interested in learning more about human movement and about the systems, factors and principles involved in human development, we offer our Introductory Kinesiology (PSK) course in Grade 12. Students have the chance to learn about the various factors that influence participation in physical activity and sport and the effects of such activity on health.

Our Dance courses, offered in grades 9 through 12 introduce students to the idea that movement is a medium of expression and that the human body is an instrument. As they progress, students have the opportunity to learn how to refine their kinesthetic awareness and use all of the elements of dance (body, space, time, energy, relationship) to create dance works that explore themes and express ideas and moods.