Physical education uses a diverse range of physical activities to teach the psychomotor, cognitive, and affective learning domains. Such experiences will provide learners with opportunities to understand the connectedness between: health-related physical fitness, movement skills, decision-making, relationships, environment, athletics citizenship, and expression of self. This curriculum recognizes the need to address current physical inactivity trends across the province and to prepare learners to be physically literate individuals. To develop physical literacy, learners require diverse experiences in different types of physical activities. The development of a learners’ physical literacy is one of many positive outcomes of a physical education program. Physical education programming is participatory based and provides the opportunity for learners to practice and grow their skill competence, creativity, confidence, and strategic thinking.
The physical education curriculum focuses on: Movement - fundamental skills, combinations, cooperative activities, games, rhythmic movement, educational gymnastics, alternative activities Cognition- knowledge, beliefs, values, morals, decision-making, self-regulation and awareness, healthy living, motivation Affect - social well-being, emotional well-being, environmental health Awareness - personal health and the value of being active for life Assessments Students will engage in both assessments of learning and for learning. Assessment for learning helps teachers and students know where they are and where they need to go in order to meet the expectations. Assessment of learning happens at the end of particular section of study and demonstrates how thoroughly a concept is understood. As such, students are provided will multiple opportunities to show their learning through activities. Students’ achievement of the outcomes will be assessed using a 1-4 point rubric. This information will be used to calculate a percentage grade for each strand at the end of each term.
Students and their parents are strongly encouraged to keep track of their progress by using the Parent Portal of PowerSchool which is accessible on the Parent tab of the OPA website and by adding themselves to the Google Classrooms created by each teacher.
Please contact the main office if you need information to access this portal. Please contact Ms. Nicky Golding at 902 889-4300 to obtain your username and password.