Kana:takon School receives National Award for Quality Physical Education

Kana:takon School has won a National Award in recognition for their Quality Physical Education program. Physical and Health Education Canada (PHE Canada) has acknowledged that Kana:takon School, its teachers, and students are excellent role models for all other Canadian schools, by awarding them with the National Platinum Recognition Award.

There are four award levels given, with the Platinum level identifying a school as providing all students with quality physical education three to four times a week, for a minimum of 150 minutes. Quality physical education (QPE) is a well-planned physical education program that offers a variety of learning opportunities and is taught by qualified and enthusiastic teachers on a regular basis throughout the school year. A QPE program includes curricular instruction for a minimum of 30 minutes at least three out of five days per week, as well as interscholastic school sport programs, school wide events, and intramural activities where all students have the opportunity to participate.

Kana:takon School is leading the advocacy initiative for the physical education of all children in Canada. Research from leading national and international health and physical education associations and experts confirms that our children need quality physical education programs in order to enjoy healthy, active and productive lives. UNESCO goes as far as saying that quality physical education is a basic right of every child.

Quality physical education provides children with the opportunity to develop the knowledge, skills, attitudes and habits they need in order to be physically active and to enjoy healthy, active and productive lives now and in the future.

Over the last decade or more, there has been a significant decline in the quality and quantity of school physical education being offered to our children. Most schools in Canada are not providing the recommended national standard of 150 minutes per week of physical education, or even the minimum requirements as set out by their own provincial curricula.

Out of over 15,000 schools across Canada, PHE Canada congratulates Kana:takon School for its leadership in providing Quality Physical Education programs to its students.