Overview for the Year
As Athletic and Health-Conscious Learners, students explore their understanding of their physical abilities and how their body supports them during their daily lives. As well, they continue to build on a growth mindset to support their well-being when it comes to both social and academic areas of school life. Furthermore, students explore and look deeply within to understand themselves and others.
The Big Ideas that we are focusing on this year are:
- Daily physical activity enables us to practice skillful movement and helps us develop personal fitness.
- Physical literacy and fitness contribute to our success in and enjoyment of physical activity.
- We experience many changes in our lives that influence how we see ourselves and others.
- Healthy choices influence our physical, emotional, and mental well-being.
- Learning about similarities and differences in individuals and groups influences community health.
As Athletes, we continue to work on building our skills. The focus this term was was on movement and cooperation. Students participated in gymnastics for the month of April – movement and agility were needed during this unit. Students really wanted to do badminton, so we had a mini unit learning the skills and positioning. We ended it off with a mini tournament. To end the term, students got in to groups to create an activity to have their other classmates complete. They had to use materials that were in the equipment room and write down the steps and instructions for the group activity. They all did a great job presenting their activities. Physical movement and activities help our brain, our thinking skills, and our muscles!
Please refer to your child’s blogfolio posts that highlights their learning during term 3.
As Health-Conscious Learners, students continued to look at ourselves and our moral compass. As well, we explored the affects of social media on ourselves and motivation – intrinsic and extrinsic.
Please refer to your child’s blogfolio posts that highlights their learning during term 3.
Curricular Competencies that we are exploring this year are:
- Develop, refine, and apply fundamental movement skills in a variety of physical activities and environments
- Develop and apply a variety of movement concepts and strategies in different physical activities
- Apply methods of monitoring and adjusting exertion levels in physical activity
- Develop and demonstrate safety, fair play, and leadership in physical activities
- Identify and describe preferred types of physical activity
- Participate daily in physical activity designed to enhance and maintain health components of fitness
- Describe how students’ participation in physical activities at school, at home, and in the community can influence their health and fitness
- Explore and plan food choices to support personal health and well-being
- Investigate and analyze influences on eating habits
- Identify factors that influence healthy choices and explain their potential health effects
- Assess and communicate health information for various health issues
- Describe the impacts of personal choices on health and well-being
- Analyze health messages and possible intentions to influence behaviour
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Reflect on outcomes of personal healthy-living goals and assess strategies used
- Identify and describe strategies for avoiding and/or responding to potentially unsafe, abusive, or exploitive situations
- Describe and assess strategies for responding to discrimination, stereotyping, and bullying
- Describe and apply strategies for developing and maintaining healthy relationships
- Explore strategies for promoting the health and well-being of the school and community
- Describe and assess strategies for promoting mental well-being, for self and others
- Describe and assess strategies for managing problems related to mental well-being and substance use, for others
- Create and assess strategies for managing physical, emotional, and social changes during puberty and adolescence
- Explore and describe how personal identities adapt and change in different settings and situations
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Explore the impact of transition and change on identities