Physical & Health Education 9 (MPHE-09)

Physical & Health Education 9 enhances the experiences of Physical Education 8. Students will delve deeper into the knowledge, understanding, and skills to maintain physical & emotional health throughout their lives. Students will build on their skills from the previous year and begin to develop their own ideas on how to achieve personal health and fitness goals. Students will actively participate in a wide variety of physical activities and learn to monitor their personal fitness level. Students will build healthy decision-making skills and being to learn how to analyze and evaluate strategies for monitoring one’s emotional, physical, and relationship health.

 

Recreational Leadership 9-12 (Athletic Leadership) (YLRA-)

Recreational Leadership 9-12 is a course designed to provide motivated students with an opportunity to enhance their leadership and organizational skills while working within the Athletics Program at MacNeill. Students will explore leadership skills and strategies in a collaborative setting and they will be given practical opportunities to develop, apply and enhance these skills. Students will receive training which will prepare them to assume roles as sport coaches, sport officials, and athletic trainers/managers for our school teams. Students will be expected to act as tournament coordinators, intramural coordinators, sport officials' coordinators, and team managers. This will require students to have a high degree of self-motivation as a great deal of the course work will be in self-directed activities. Volunteer hours will be required.

 

Physical & Health Education 10 (MPHED10)

PHE 10 is a continuation of the Physical Education 9 with more advanced knowledge, understanding, and physical literacy skills to maintain physical & emotional health. Active participation is still the key component of this course. This year students will begin to develop more independence in personal health and fitness decisions as they look towards senior years in high school. Students continue to build healthy decision-making skills and build more strategies to analyze and evaluate personal health decisions. Towards the end of the year students will be asked to reflect on a healthy living plan and explore the variety of physical activity options for their senior years at MacNeill.

 

Active Living 11 (Physical Education 11) (MACLV11)

Active living 11 will be a combination of grade 11 and 12 students. Come destress and have fun! Take a break from the rigors of being a senior student and enjoy a break from the academics. Come participate in a variety of individual/team activities and the pursuit of lifetime leisure activities. In addition to active participation, a greater emphasis will be placed on leadership skill development and health promotion. Students will have greater choice in the selection of activities and the development of personal health plans to develop a positive attitude towards physical activity and health.

 

Fit for Life Health Education 11 & 12 (Previously Girls- Fit for Life Health Education 11 & 12) (MFTCD11 & MFTCD12)

This course is designed with a focus on female health and fitness. This course will include physical activity, health education, and field trips to community leisure facilities. Our goal is to create an atmosphere to promote and empower females to pursue physical activity through the active participation of fitness classes, various games/activities, and dance. Potential activities include team and individual games, yoga, Pilates, weight training, cycling, water aerobics, rock climbing, golf, bowling, hiking, as well as classroom lessons on topics such as nutrition, stress, female health, and current trends in health and fitness.

 

Active Living 12 (Physical Education 12) (MACLV12)

Active living 12 will be a combination of grade 11 and 12 students. Come destress and have fun! Take a break from the rigors of being a senior student and enjoy a break from the academics. Come participate in a variety of individual/team activities and the pursuit of lifetime leisure activities. In addition to active participation, a greater emphasis will be placed on leadership skill development and health promotion. Students will have greater choice in the selection of activities and the development of personal health plans to develop a positive attitude towards physical activity and health.

 

Health Science 11 & 12 (YHRA-1B & YHRA-2B)

This course is available to both Grade 11 and 12 students and will be run as a combined course. If you are interested in pursuing a career in the health industry this is the course for you! This course will be a great preview of post-secondary programs in the health and fitness industry such as food & nutrition, human kinetics, nursing, medicine, etc.

Come explore how the human body is built, how it functions and how the body is the most unique and spectacular object alive! Health Science 11 & 12 will introduce the anatomy and physiology of various body systems with applications to health. This course involves practical labs and offer the opportunity to experience real life science in a non-threatening way. Topics typically include: the cardiovascular system, respiratory system, digestion, musculoskeletal system, exercise prescription and management, injury prevention, rehabilitation, and nutrition.

 

Fitness, Health and Conditioning 11 & 12

Welcome to MacNeill’s “Training Facility!” The focus of the course is on individual fitness where students will develop a variety of skills and knowledge required to maintain whole body health and fitness. Students will actively participate in various fitness classes using a variety of training methods such as circuit training, weight training, and energy system development. Health and fitness is a life-long learning process and our goal by the conclusion of grade 12 is for students to feel confident in developing a personal health and fitness plan.

Typical skills and topics include:

- Participating in various training techniques with and without the use of equipment

- Goal setting for personal health & fitness

- Developing personal and group fitness plans

- Understanding and applying the components of fitness

- Assessing and applying current trends in health, fitness, and nutrition

Field trip opportunities are available to enhance and extend the learning outcomes of the course. Activities may include hiking, snow tubing, yoga, spin class, rock climbing, beach archery tag and cycling to name a few. This course is highly recommended for students looking to make positive changes in their lifestyle and motivates them to improve their health and fitness levels.