BC Physical and Health Education Report Card Comments, Grades 4-9
Physical and Health Education covers physical literacy (movement skills, concepts and strategies in games and activities), healthy and active living, social and community health (safety, healthy relationships, where to get help) and mental well-being (strategies for managing emotions, changes and stress).
Below are 9 sample sentences for Grades 4-9: one strength and one next step for each of the 4 comment levels (Extending / Proficient / Developing / Emerging), plus a tip for families. They are a small selection from the 144 physical and health education sentences in the full pack. Copy one, then add a detail only you know about the student.
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Extending X
Strengths
- When setting a personal healthy-living goal, [Name] chooses realistic steps to reach it and reflects thoughtfully on which strategies worked best.Grades 4-7
Next step
- A further challenge is to design a short gymnastics or dance sequence for a small group, adding changes in timing, direction and formation.Grades 4-7
Proficient P
Strengths
- When reading health information from sources such as advertising and online posts, [Name] can evaluate which claims are trustworthy and explain why.Grades 8-9
Next step
- The goal is to analyze how advertising targets youth with health claims and to suggest questions to ask before trusting a product claim.Grades 8-9
Developing D
Strengths
- [Name] can name some strategies for responding to bullying and is working on explaining which would work best in situations discussed in class.
Next step
- Moving forward, [Name] will work on reading the play, such as watching where teammates move, and small-sided games (games with fewer players) will give more chances to practise.
Emerging E
Strengths
- During games, [Name] is beginning to learn the rules of new sports and applies them with guidance from the teacher.Grades 4-7
Next step
- With step-by-step pictures, [Name] will work toward performing a simple dance pattern in time with music.Grades 4-7
Support at home
- Dancing together to music you enjoy, or making up a short movement routine, is a fun way to practise rhythm and coordination at home.
How to write physical and health education comments for Grades 4-9
- Separate skill from strategy: a student may perform a skill well in a drill but find it harder to choose when to pass or move into space in a game. Name both and one focus for the next unit.
- Include healthy and active living: whether the student can explain how activity affects the body, monitor effort (for example with heart rate) or set and track a personal fitness goal.
- In Grades 8-9, health topics such as healthy relationships, reliable health information and managing stress should be described as learning shown in lessons, kept general and never as a comment on the student's personal life.
Watch out: Avoid basing the PHE comment on athletic ability, team selection or participation alone. Describe movement skills, strategies and health understanding shown in lessons, and keep personal health and body comments out.
The Ministry's guidelines describe Emerging as an initial understanding of the concepts and competencies, Developing as partial, Proficient as complete and Extending as sophisticated. Proficient is the goal and does not mean perfect; Extending is about depth and complexity, not extra work or work from a higher grade. Here the four names only choose the wording: report the indicator itself in your reporting tool, and let the comment describe the learning behind it.
What Physical and Health Education covers
Big ideas and curricular competencies for physical and health education:
- Physical literacy: develops movement skills and applies them, with strategies, in games, dance, gymnastics and outdoor activities
- Healthy and active living: takes part in daily physical activity and understands healthy choices and personal goals
- Social and community health: understands safety, healthy relationships and communication, and where to get help
- Mental well-being: understands strategies for managing emotions and changes, and how physical, mental and emotional health connect
More British Columbia subjects comments
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- For the same report: BC Core Competencies Report Comments, K-9
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