This year has been an amazing experience in PE this year! I have improved and achieved the goals I set at the beginning of the year and had fun the whole way along. I made friends with people I wouldn't have ever met (from grade 2's to grade 10's) and I have so many awesome memories that I'll remember for a long time :)
PARTICIPATION: 23/25
(Ability to participate and the quality of participation of in-class activities)
Attendance and punctuality: 4.5/5
- I have never had an unexcused absence, but I have missed class for volunteering and appointments a couple of times during the year.
Wearing gym strip: 5/5
- I always bring a change of clothes for gym strip and never forgot it during the year.
Physical presence/intensity level during games: 4.5/5
- In class, I try my best to be a contributing factor to the activity I am involved in because I honestly find it boring to not try. A couple of times, I think I could've been more intense during the activity, and I regret not doing that on those days.
"Skill level" in various games: 4.5/5
- I am an athletic person and that comes across in a lot of the games we play, but there are some games that I'm just not good at (aka football and lacrosse). Even so, I try my best during these games to get better so they can be more enjoyable in the future.
Motivation behind your selection of activities on choice days: 4.5/5
- I really enjoy choice days because it gives me options on what activity I want to do on that particular day, whether it be a new activity such as atomic volleyball, or an activity that I've done before and enjoyed such as handball.
- My motivation behind the activity I choose varies, but normally it is based on the fact that I like a certain activity or that my friends chose something and I want to be with them.
SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY: 23/25
(Factors that led to improving skills around working with peers to make everyone's experience more successful)Leadership: 4.5/5
- I almost always help organize the choice activity that I'm participating in because it helps get the activity started faster and gives us more time to play. Even if I have an idea of what I think would be the best way to get something done, I always listen to others' ideas and incorporate them into whatever we're doing.
- I have a positive attitude towards others and am a team player, so I always encourage and cheer on my peers because it helps them reach their full potential as well.
- I help get equipment and set up the activity we're doing because I like starting right away and helping out in the class.
- On choice days I help organize the game that I'm involved in, even if it's not just my class participating.
Positive energy and social dynamic during activities: 4/5
- I am a very competitive person so a couple times I got frustrated when others didn't try hard or participate, but it was my goal to improve this and encourage them get involved instead, and I found that I was doing this a lot at the end of the year as opposed to getting mad.
Honesty during competition and on fitness scores: 5/5
- I am always honest in competition because it is when people start cheating that the activity becomes unengaging and nobody wants to play it anymore.
- I am ALWAYS honest with my fitness scores because if you lie about them, you aren't lying to everyone else, you are lying to yourself. Also, I use the fitness scores as a gauge for my improvement and that helps with my field hockey.
Connections with the community/volunteering: 5/5
- I volunteer in the school and community because I think it is one of the best ways to give back and become involved. I coach the "Minis" in one of my field hockey clubs and I coach with the Special Olympics Rhythmic Gymnastics level B team. I love seeing the smiles on the athletes' faces when they succeed and improve.
HEALTHY LIVING: 23/25
(Aspects of your past, current, and future data and goals on health and fitness)
Actual fitness scores compared to others and what they teach you: 4/5
- My PB on the Beep Test is 9.7 and this is ranked as "very good" on the ratings for a 15 year old female.
Noteworthy changes in Fitness: 5/5
- From the beginning of PE in grade 8, I had a score of 5 on the beep test and I've improved a lot since then.
- This year, on my first beep test I got a score of 8.1, on my second one I got a score of 9.1 and on my last beep test I got a score of 9.7. My goal at the beginning of the year was to get a 9.5 on the beep test, so I achieved that.
Some of the barriers/limitations you face in participating: 4.5/5
- I don't really have barriers and limitations when I'm participating because if I can't do something (such as Yoga), I'll modify it. One thing I need to work on more is my flexibility, but I did improve a little this year.
Dietary choices and extra curricular activity choices and their impact on overall health: 4.5/5
- I eat healthy because I find that I get sick and don't feel well after eating junk food. Also, with the amount of physical activity I do, it is important to fuel my body with good and nutritious foods.
- I play field hockey 4-5 days (games and practices) a week and at the practices I also run as well as play.
Injury prevention, management, and rehabilitation, and future plans/goals for overall health choices: 5/5
- I always warm up and stretch before I do an activity because getting injured could prevent me from playing Field Hockey and doing Tae Kwon Do.
- When I got injured, I went to physio and did my exercises and got better.
- I want to keep on improving my fitness and health and continuing to eat healthy and play field hockey and do Tae Kwon Do.
DIGITAL PORTFOLIO AND REFLECTIVE SKILLS: 23/25
(Aspects of blog posts)
Total collection of digital evidence and number of posts: 5/5
- I have 48 blog posts!!!
Quality of the selection of evidence as a demonstration of learning: 4.5/5
- I have blog posts about: weight room workouts and images of me doing the workouts, numerous fitness scores and testing days (beep test and the exercises afterwards), diet and extra curricular activities outside or school, a reflective post about the quality of my blog as compared to others, a mid term post, a final post, and multiple posts with evidence of social responsibility choices I make in class, plus other posts about events I participate in.
The quality of the summaries/explanation of the evidence (with reflection of effort, new learning cited, research included, and future goals/plans set): 4/5
- I write full and complete blogs with evidence and connections to my past fitness and my future goals. I also write about how I feel about the activity and how I feel like I did and how I can improve in the future.
The usefulness of comments on peers blog entries as a part of socially constructed learning and assessment: 5/5
- I post constructive and positive comments on my peers blogs.
- I use the advice that my classmates give me to improve because I want to be the best a I can be whenever I'm doing something.
Ability to synthesize entries into a summative final post which provides evidence for learning: 4.5/5
- I guess I'm doing this right now and I'd like to think that I'm doing a good job...
- I referred to past experiences and things I do in class on a regular basis in this blog post and pulled my year together into one overall post. I also added a couple of screenshots from my blog.
Overall, this year I've that I've worked hard, improved, and had a positive impact on the class in general. I believe I deserve an A and a 92% for my efforts this year :)
