Sports For Life
Sports For Life Coming in 2019-2020!
OLPH School is thrilled to announce that they will be running a Sports For Life program starting in the 2019-2020 school year!
The mission of the Sport for Life Program is to provide students exposure to a variety of sport and recreation activities in a Catholic environment with the focus on creating life-long active and healthy lifestyles. Students will have the benefit of building athletic skill, along with leadership qualities in a faith-filled setting.
The program is based on the Canadian Sport for Life (CS4L) model, which is a movement to improve the quality of sport and physical activity in Canada through improved athlete training and better integration between all stakeholders in the sport system, including sport organizations, education, recreation and health
The program will be based on the following curricula:
Physical Education
Health
Career and Technology Foundations
Topics of Study
Sports Leadership
Health and Nutrition
Sports Psychology
Training Principles
Performance Evaluation
Sports Injuries
Sports Careers
Personal Development
Open to Grades 5- 8 for the 2018-2019 school year
Students receive instruction of core subjects: Mathematics, Science, Social, Language Arts and Religion
Students take 1 additional option per term, or 1 full year optional course in grade 7 & 8
French Immersion students choosing to take the program will have no other options available to them that year
All classes will be supervised by certified teachers
For specialty sports, certified instructors will be employed to ensure correct training and implementation
Based on Canadian Sport for Life (CS4L) and Long-Term Athlete Development (LTAD), a developmental pathway whereby athletes follow optimal training, competition, and recovery regimens
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