Page 86 - Ontario Curriculum, Grades 9 to 12: Course Descriptions and Prerequisites, 2018

Health and Physical Education (2015)
Courses in Health and Physical Education, Grades 9 to 12
Grade Course Name
9 Healthy Active Living Education
10 Healthy Active Living Education
11 Healthy Active Living Education
11 Health for Life
12 Healthy Active Living Education
12 Introductory Kinesiology
12 Recreation and Healthy Active
Living Leadership
Course Type
Open
Open
Open
College Open
University
University/ College
Course Code Prerequisite
PPL1O
PPL2O
PPL3O
PPZ3C PPL4O
PSK4U
PLF4M
None
None
None
None None
Any Grade 11 university or university/college preparation course in science, or any Grade 11 or 12 course in health and physical education
Any health and physical education course
Note: The Healthy Active Living Education (HALE) courses are designed to be implemented as written and also to allow schools to develop courses in Grades 9 to 12 that focus on a particular group of physical activities as the vehicle through which students achieve the curriculum expectations. See course names and codes for possible Focus courses below each course description. The activity area chosen as the focus for a course should be seen strictly as the medium through which students will achieve the course expectations, including the living skills expectations. Regardless of the particular area on which a course is focused, students must be given the opportunity to achieve all the expectations for the course.
The intent behind focus courses is not to focus on a single sport – in other words, not to offer a “hockey course” or a “basketball course” or a “tennis course” – but rather to give students the opportunity to experience a variety of physical activities as they acquire knowledge and skills related to healthy living. All focus courses must include the healthy living expectations and must integrate the development of living skills throughout the course.
A student may take more than one HALE course for credit in each of Grades 9, 10, 11, and 12, provided that the focus of each course is different. The course description for a focus course should start with the full course description for the HALE course for the particular grade, and end with a statement describing the types of activities that the course will focus on. For example, the course description for a Grade 11 Individual and Small Group Activities course (PAI3O) would use the description for the Grade 11 Healthy Active Living Education course (PPL3O), followed by a statement describing the focus activities – e.g., “The course will focus on a variety of individual, dual, and small group activities, such as golf, combatives, athletics, and curling”. For more information, see pages 19-20 in the curriculum policy document.
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