This course focuses on the development of a healthy lifestyle and participation in a variety of enjoyable physical activities that have the potential to engage student’s interest throughout their lives.  Through a variety of sports, games and fitness activities, students will learn movement skills and principles that will improve physical fitness and physical competence, personal safety and injury prevention.

The goal of this full credit course is to help students understand the importance of physical activity, fitness, health and well-being in a total lifestyle.  Students taking PPL should be committed to daily vigorous activity and positive health behaviors.

Students are expected to follow class rules and routines:

·         Regular attendance, full effort and committed participation are necessary for success in this course

·         Active Participation in physical activities is the critical element of your final evaluation

By the end of the course students will:

·         Demonstrate regular active participation

·         Demonstrate improvement in (or maintain) personal health-related fitness

·         Demonstrate and understand health life behaviors

·         Demonstrate safe practices regarding the safety of themselves and others

·         Demonstrate a personal competence in applying skills and principles of movement

·         Demonstrate knowledge of guidelines and strategies that enhance participation in recreation activities and sport game strategies

·         Use appropriate decisions making skills to achieve goals

·         Use appropriate social skills when working with others

                    UNIT 1:  Active Participation
                    UNIT 2:  Nutrition
                    UNIT 3:  Healthy Lifestyle Choices
                    UNIT 4:  Conflict Resolution/Anger Management
                    UNIT 5:  Individual and Team Activities

The Ontario Curriculum, Program Planning and Assessment 2000 specifies that the mark for the course is to be based upon ongoing or term work (70%) and a final assessment (30%) that will include a final culminating activity and a final exam.

Within these two areas, marks will be obtained using the four categories specified in the Ontario Curriculum Grades 9 and 10:  Health and Physical Education.

Please refer to St. Edmund Campion's Evaluation Policy for further details
regarding assessment and evaluation.