Physical Education Courses

Physical Education and Health
Required: Grade 9
Duration: Full year
Course no: 901
Credits: 1.0

Physical Education
Duration: Semester or full year
Credits: .5 per semester
Course no: 902

Sports Participation
Duration: Sports Season
Credits: .5 per sport, up to 1.0 credit
Course no: 903

In the Junior year, the 3rd P.E. credit can be earned by participating in 2 ILH sports in the same
school year. Credit will be awarded, but no grade given. If Sports Participation P.E. credit is not
earned in 11th grade, students must enroll in a regular P.E. class in the 12th grade.

A Physically Educated Student:

1. Demonstrates competency in many movement forms
2. Applies movement concepts to the learning of new motor skills
3. Shows a commitment to an active lifestyle
4. Maintains a healthy level of fitness
5. Exhibits sportsmanship
6. Respects others’ right to participate in sports activities

All students attending Le Jardin will be asked to demonstrate their ability to perform a survival swim test administered to all PE 9 and new students in Grades 10 –12.P.E. 9 emphasizes physical fitness concepts. Throughout the semester students will use the concepts taught as a carry over in developing their own exercise and nutrition program for a healthy lifestyle.

Activities will include running, swimming, water polo, basketball, volleyball, soccer, lacrosse and field hockey.

Dance

Grade 10-12
Duration: Semester or Full year
Credit 1.0
Weighting: 4.0
Course no: 910
May be taken more than once for credit

Aims:
The purpose of the course is to experience, through participation, some aspects of a variety of
Dance styles. For example: Contemporary, Jazz, Modern, Stage etc.
Through these varied styles of Dance the students will gain a knowledge of movement
vocabulary related to that dance style, build these into small motifs, then into small sequences
and finally into a dance performance.
In addition, the students will gain the relevant knowledge of choreography technique and
appropriate music selection.

Assessment:
The assessment of the course will be continuous, but with a particular emphasis on a final
choreography performance, in which the music, theme, dance style and movements will all be
chosen, rehearsed and performed by the student.

updated as of: 11/16/2007