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Healthy Living Strand
The 2015 H&PE curriculum provides educators with an opportunity to integrate multiple aspects of healthy living and well-being by clustering expectations to connect with the skills students need for good overall health. As a result, the approach to learning becomes skill based rather than content...
Creating Positive Learning Environments
Understanding Inquiry in Health and Physical Education
“Inquiry-based learning is a process where students are involved in their learning, formulating questions, investigate widely and then build new understandings, meanings and knowledge. That knowledge is new to the students and may be used to answer a question, to develop a solution or to support a...
Additional Resources
These resources are provided to support concussion awareness and knowledge building for the school community. They are organized by the concussion component they focus on: awareness, identification, management, prevention, and training. As you review the resources, keep in mind that as per Policy...
Healthy Schools Certification: How You Can Make a Difference in Your School
What you do this year will inspire change and lead to a healthier school and community. Building a strong sense of community and connectedness in schools is important now more than ever. Students need to feel physically and emotionally safe in order to learn and thrive. Growing up in today’s world...
How These Resources May be Used in the Classroom
Educating young people about sexual violence contributes to sexual violence prevention because it helps youth understand their rights and the laws governing consent and sexual violence; it challenges myths about sexual violence and supports youth in developing the skills to challenge these myths and...
Movement Competence Posters
The Movement Competence Posters may be used by students to develop their physical literacy skills related to fundamental and transferable movement skills, concepts and strategies. This resource aligns with The Ontario Curriculum, Grades 9-12, Health and Physical Education (2015), which includes 10...
The Importance of Engaging Youth in Their Learning
Working With Adult Team Members
An adult ally is the adult half of a youth–adult partnership ( The Students Commission of Canada, 2007 ). The ally is there to work with you and support you in making decisions and taking action that affects you and your school. Key characteristics of adult allies Accepting Approachable Creative...
Working With Adult Team Members
An adult ally is the adult half of a youth–adult partnership ( The Students Commission of Canada, 2007 ). The ally is there to work with you and support you in making decisions and taking action that affects you and your school. Key characteristics of adult allies: Approachable Open Understanding...
Connected to School Activities
What Is Your Goal? Students reflect on the food choices they make and why they make them, and based on their observations create a goal for improvement. With this goal in mind, they create a poster that encourages others to eat healthier or keep eating healthy. Healthy Eating around School Healthy...