Healthy Active Living

Welcome to Grade 9 Healthy Active Living Education at BCSS

Semester 1: PPL101, Semester 2: PAL101

This course equips students with the knowledge and skills they need to make healthy choices now, and lead healthy, active lives in the future. Through participation in a wide range of physical activities, students develop knowledge and skills related to movement competence and personal fitness that provide a foundation for active living. Students also acquire an understanding of the factors and skills that contribute to healthy development and learn how their own well-being is affected by, and affects, the world around them. Students build their sense of self, learn to interact positively with others, and develop their ability to think critically and creatively.

Sports

This course includes introductions to 

• Invasion sports. There sports are similar in their tactics and strategies, and also in the skills and athleticism required to play them. Sports that you might play during this block are: Basketball, Soccer, Handball and Ultimate
• Territory sports. There sports are similar in their tactics and strategies, and also in the skills and athleticism required to play them. The main difference is that there is an offside line during play that separates offensive and defensive teams. Sports that you might play during this block are: Rugby League, Rugby Union and American Football
• Stick sports. There sports are similar in their tactics and strategies, and also in the skills and athleticism required to play them. The main difference is that all of these sports are played using a stick or club that is used to strike the ball to advance it. Sports that you might play during this block are: Ringette, Field Hockey, Hurling, Lacrosse and Floorball
• Striking/ Fielding sports. There sports are similar in their tactics and strategies, and also in the skills and athleticism required to play them. Sports that you might play during this block are: Softball, Soccer Baseball, Rounders & Cricket.
• Net/Wall sports. These sports are similar in their tactics and strategies, and also in the skills and athleticism required to play them. Sports that you might play during this block are Wallball, Takraw and Volleyball, Tennis, Racquetball, Squash, Pickleball and Badminton.
• Target sports, a player either throws, slides, or strikes an object with the goal of having the object land closest too or in a designated target. Target games can be in the form of either a team sport or an individual sport and can also be divided into being either unopposed (e.g. golf, archery, ten pin bowling) or opposed (e.g. lawn bowling, curling, shuffleboard).  

Fitness

The fitness unit during the first semester of healthy active living for grade 9 students at Bill Crothers Secondary School is designed to introduce foundational concepts in physical fitness training. We begin with functional movement- which emphasizes the prioritization of healthy levels of mobility and stability over physical strength, speed, and power. The reasons for functional movement as a critical starting point in fitness are three-fold:

1. Building strength on top of dysfunction places and immediate limitation on human performance and increases risk of injury;
2. Mastery of efficient skilled movement in sport relies heavily on all elements of functional human movement;
3. A majority of sports injuries can be linked to some degree of movement inefficiency or “faulty” movement. 

The fitness unit during the second semester of healthy active living for grade 9 students at Bill Crothers Secondary School encourages students to take further steps toward self-sufficiency through application. Having learned a variety of fitness training exercises and drills in the first semester through a series of functional movement exercises, form cuing, and resistance training workshops, students are equipped to apply their knowledge of specific exercises and movements to their sport-specific role(s) and/or areas of potential improvement with respect to physical fitness. During this unit, students will:

1. Begin to understand the links between specific conditioning and resistance training exercises and sport-specific actions;
2. Be introduced to key principles involved in designing a purposeful and meaningful exercise training session / workout;
3. Apply knowledge of physical fitness training to their own personal long-term and short-term fitness goals.

Health

This section covers:

• Introduction to the Basics of Nutrition
• Substance Use and Abuse
• CPR and Basic First Aid  
• Reproductive Health
• Use of Technology
• Mental Health