St. Anthony’s School has won two national awards for delivering quality physical education.
The school received two awards from the Physical and Health Education Canada. They were presented with a Diamond Banner for providing all students with Quality Daily Physical Education for a minimum of 150 minutes per week. They were also awarded the Secondary Banner which recognizes the school provides students with “compulsory Quality Physical Education courses that are exceptional and enhanced by leadership opportunities and intramural activities.”
St. Anthony’s 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 a quality physical education program 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.
