PHYSICAL EDUCATION GRADE 10
Required: Selection of two courses below
Duration: 1 each semester
Credit: 0.5 each semester, total 1
Grade: 10
Homework: Light
Through the co-educational HPE program, students will learn how to maintain an active and healthy lifestyle through their engagement in their choice, where possible, of a variety of physical activities. All grade 10 students will take a required human sexuality unit within their chosen HPE elective during semester 2.
* The same course can not be taken twice.
ADVENTURE & FITNESS (UHPE02)
Includes boating and kayaking, fitness, and ropes course challenges.
* The ropes course includes low and high elements.
INDIVIDUAL ACTIVITIES & FITNESS (UHPE03)
Includes fitness training, racket sports, social dance, and Brazilian jiu jitsu.
RECREATIONAL ACTIVITIES 1 & 2 (UHPE04)
Includes volleyball, basketball, floor hockey, handball and pickleball.
*The above three classes (UHPE02, UHPE03, and UHPE04) are the only classes that can be taken as Sports for Credit.
DANCE / PE (UHPE05)
In this course students will learn techniques from various dance styles such as jazz, hip hop, ballet, and theatre dance with an emphasis on modern dance. Students will learn to manipulate space, time, and energy in creating dances. An emphasis will be placed on improving individual levels of fitness. (Please see Performing and Visual Arts Department for other Dance courses.)
FITNESS TRAINING (UHPE07)
This course is open to students who want to continue to learn about and improve their personal fitness. It is also open to junior/senior transfers who need to fulfill TAS HPE requirements. Students will work towards personal fitness goals, develop a personalized fitness program and develop a greater understanding of the wide range of fitness-related activities in which they can participate. These activities include: weight training, plyometrics, and cardio-respiratory workouts. Students will also develop an awareness of health-related aspects of fitness training such as sports injuries, posture analysis, physiological affects of exercise on the body, and nutrition.
During Grade 10, Prevention Solutions (a chemical-abuse-educational program) will give two seminars discussing addiction and prevention. In recognition of the time and effort expended in athletic activity during practices and games, sophomore students who are involved in a TAS JV or Varsity Sports team may choose to use their HPE class time (certain classes only) as a free period during the sports season. This is known as Sports for Credit. However attendance at the FCD seminars is mandatory for all sophomores.
