The Ontario Curriculum – Health and Physical Education (Grade 1-8)

This curriculum discusses an overview of Ontario state curriculum in Health and physical education.

The goals of the health and physical education program are as follows.

Students will develop:

• The social-emotional learning skills needed to foster overall health and well-being,

positive mental health, and the ability to learn, build resilience, and thrive;

• The skills and knowledge that will enable them to enjoy being active and healthy

throughout their lives, through opportunities to participate regularly and safely in

physical activity and to learn how to develop and improve their own personal fitness;

• The movement competence needed to participate in a range of physical activities,

through opportunities to develop movement skills and to apply movement concepts

and strategies in games, sports, dance, and various other physical activities;

• An understanding of the factors that contribute to healthy development, a sense of

personal responsibility for lifelong health, and an understanding of how living healthy,

active lives is connected with the world around them and the health of others.

The knowledge and skills acquired in health education and physical education form an

integrated whole that relates to the everyday experiences of students and provides them

with the physical literacy and health literacy they need to lead healthy, active lives.

The Ontario Curriculum – Health and Physical Education (Grade 9-12)

This curriculum discusses an overview of Ontario state curriculum in Health and physical education.

SECONDARY SCHOOLS FOR THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY

The goal of Ontario secondary schools is to support high-quality learning while giving

individual students the opportunity to choose programs that suit their skills and interests.

The updated Ontario curriculum, in combination with a broader range of learning options

outside traditional classroom instruction, will enable students to better customize their high

school education and improve their prospects for success in school and in life.

The revised curriculum recognizes that, today and in the future, students need to

be critically literate in order to synthesize information, make informed decisions,

communicate effectively, and thrive in an ever-changing global community. It is

important that students be connected to the curriculum; that they see themselves in

what is taught, how it is taught, and how it applies to the world at large. The curriculum

recognizes that the needs of learners are diverse, and helps all learners develop the

knowledge, skills, and perspectives they need to be informed, productive, caring,

responsible, healthy, and active citizens in their own communities and in the world.