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K-6 Physical Education & Wellness (PEW) Curriculum

Physical education and wellness promotes the development of the whole individual and aims to nurture students in their pursuit of a healthy and active life. This subject combines the disciplines of physical education and health / wellness education and, through a healthy school community, promotes the holistic development of students in eight dimensions: physical, social, emotional, spiritual, environmental, financial, intellectual, and occupational.

While respecting the diversity of each student’s unique strengths, talents, and goals, physical education and wellness seeks to empower all learners to positively engage with their peers and community. With a healthy mind, body, and spirit, students are empowered to experience success at school, with their families, and in their communities.

The physical education component of this subject supports well-being through the development of movement skills and concepts, and an appreciation for active living that is valued and integrated into daily life. As students become physically literate, they develop the motivation, confidence, competence, and knowledge to value and take responsibility for participating in a wide range of physical activities across a lifespan. During physical education, students have meaningful learning opportunities to develop personal and social skills and behaviours as they interact respectfully within various indoor, outdoor, and alternative environments. Physical education enables students to experience the joy of movement through purposeful engagement in each of the following physical activity dimensions: rhythmic, gymnastic, expressive, individual and group, challenge and adventure, and cultural activities and games.

Curriculum Model

Organizing Idea 1

Active Living: Developing physical literacy through movement and active living supports well-being across a lifespan.
Organizing Idea 2

Movement Skill Development: Developing physical literacy through movement and active living supports well-being across a lifespan.
Organizing Idea 3

Character Development: Exploration of life opportunities and virtues develops resilience and personal talents and promotes lifelong learning.
Organizing Idea 4

Safety: A lifetime of optimal well-being is supported by prioritizing health and safety.
Organizing Idea 5

Healthy Eating: A lifetime of optimal well-being and physical wellness is supported by prioritizing nutrition and healthy eating.
Organizing Idea 6

Healthy Relationships: Personal well-being is supported through positive relationships built on communication, collaboration, empathy, and respect.
Organizing Idea 7

Growth and Development: Decision making that optimizes personal health and well-being is informed by understanding growth and development.
Organizing Idea 8

Financial Literacy: Informed financial decision making contributes to the well-being of individuals, groups, and communities.

Kindergarten Grade 1 Grade 2 Grade 3
Organizing Idea:
Active Living: Developing physical literacy through movement and active living supports well-being across a lifespan.
Learning Outcomes:
Children explore physical activity in a variety of contexts. Students investigate the benefits of physical activity. Students investigate physical activity and relate it to personal experience. Students examine how participation in a variety of challenging physical activities fosters well-being.
Organizing Idea:
Movement Skill Development: Developing physical literacy through movement and active living supports well-being across a lifespan.
Learning Outcomes:
Children explore spatial awareness in a variety of physical activity contexts. Students exhibit spatial awareness during a variety of physical activities. Students refine and apply spatial awareness across a variety of physical activity contexts. Students examine and integrate tactics in a variety of physical activity contexts.
Children investigate movement of the body. Students demonstrate how movement can support different types of physical activity. Students modify movement to improve control and efficiency. Students investigate and demonstrate how elements of movement support physical activity.
Children explore fair play through a variety of physical activities. Students demonstrate fair play and support engagement in a variety of physical activities. Students demonstrate teamwork and support participation in a variety of physical activities. Students identify and demonstrate how teamwork supports positive interactions during physical activity.
Organizing Idea:
Character Development: Exploration of life opportunities and virtues develops resilience and personal talents and promotes lifelong learning.
Learning Outcomes:
Children describe personal characteristics and explore feelings and emotions. Students examine personal characteristics, feelings, and emotions and explore understanding of self. Students examine roles, responsibilities, and self-regulation and their connections to self-understanding. Students analyze different roles within varied contexts and examine how roles can support the development of talents, virtues, and resilience.
Organizing Idea:
Safety: A lifetime of optimal well-being is supported by prioritizing health and safety.
Learning Outcomes:
Children recognize boundaries in various situations. Students explain how boundaries connect to safety. Students examine and apply personal safety in a variety of situations. Students investigate and explain safety and its correlation to health.
Organizing Idea:
Healthy Eating: A lifetime of optimal well-being and physical wellness is supported by prioritizing nutrition and healthy eating.
Learning Outcomes:
Children explore how food connects to daily life. Students examine and connect a variety of foods to growth and development. Students examine internal and external factors that influence food choices and decisions. Students investigate food and describe how it affects the body.
Organizing Idea:
Healthy Relationships: Personal well-being is supported through positive relationships built on communication, collaboration, empathy, and respect.
Learning Outcomes:
Children examine healthy relationships in learning and playing environments. Students investigate how healthy relationships in learning and playing environments are built through connection. Students connect healthy relationships to a variety of learning and playing contexts. Students investigate and describe how problem solving can affect healthy relationships.
Organizing Idea:
Growth and Development: Decision making that optimizes personal health and well-being is informed by understanding growth and development.
Learning Outcomes:
Children identify physical growth. Students investigate growth and its connection to healthy practices. Students examine how growth is affected by variables. Students examine and describe development related to personal growth.
Organizing Idea:
Financial Literacy: Informed financial decision making contributes to the well-being of individuals, groups, and communities.
Learning Outcomes:
What is money? Students explore money and how it is used for everyday living. Students relate money and decision making. Students describe strategies that support responsible money management.

Grade 4 Grade 5 Grade 6
Organizing Idea:
Active Living: Developing physical literacy through movement and active living supports well-being across a lifespan.
Learning Outcomes:
Students examine how choices in physical activities affect active living. Students examine the effect of motivation on physical activity. Students analyze motivation and its relationship to personal development and active living.
Organizing Idea:
Movement Skill Development: Developing physical literacy through movement and active living supports well-being across a lifespan.
Learning Outcomes:
Students select and implement strategies and tactics in a variety of physical activities. Students analyze and apply strategies and tactics that support improved decision making in physical activities. Students examine and demonstrate an understanding of structure in physical activity.
Students integrate and experiment with elements of movement to support physical activity. Students demonstrate and adapt various movement patterns to enhance skill development. Students adapt and apply movement patterns in controlled and dynamic physical activities.
Students connect and demonstrate how teamwork enhances participation in physical activity. Students demonstrate how collaboration influences physical activity. Students analyze and apply conflict resolution in physical activity.
Organizing Idea:
Character Development: Exploration of life opportunities and virtues develops resilience and personal talents and promotes lifelong learning.
Learning Outcomes:
Students interpret how resilience and perseverance can be influenced by a variety of life experiences. Students reflect and relate life experiences to perseverance and well-being. Students connect strategies for well-being to life opportunities and lifelong learning.
Organizing Idea:
Safety: A lifetime of optimal well-being is supported by prioritizing health and safety.
Learning Outcomes:
Students analyze and explain responsibility and how it can impact personal and group safety. Students analyze responsibility and consider the impact on well-being. Students examine risk and identify the factors that influence action.
Organizing Idea:
Healthy Eating: A lifetime of optimal well-being and physical wellness is supported by prioritizing nutrition and healthy eating.
Learning Outcomes:
Students examine nutrition and explain how it informs decision making about food. Students evaluate aspects of nutrition and examine their benefits to well-being. Students examine access to food and its effect on making decisions related to nutrition.
Organizing Idea:
Healthy Relationships: Personal well-being is supported through positive relationships built on communication, collaboration, empathy, and respect.
Learning Outcomes:
Students reflect on resolution and explain connections to healthy relationships. Students acknowledge and connect perspectives of self and others through communication and listening skills. Students consider and describe a variety of perspectives that support the development of healthy relationships.
Organizing Idea:
Growth and Development: Decision making that optimizes personal health and well-being is informed by understanding growth and development.
Learning Outcomes:
Students explore various areas of development. Students investigate maturation and identify changes during adolescence. Students examine physical, social, personal, and environmental factors connected to maturation during adolescence.
Students explain how development and puberty are connected. Students connect puberty to the capacity for human reproduction. Students investigate human reproduction from fertilization to birth.
Organizing Idea:
Financial Literacy: Informed financial decision making contributes to the well-being of individuals, groups, and communities.
Learning Outcomes:
Students examine factors that influence spending. Students demonstrate how planning can support financial goals. Students investigate borrowing and investing in a variety of situations.

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