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Grade 9 Healthy Active Living

Learn it. Move it. Apply it.

Build a strong foundation for an active, healthy life. Groundwork’s planned hybrid course combines online learning with physical activity, helping students connect what they learn with their fitness, interests and everyday choices.

Incorporate your existing team or training program, or complete the full course through Groundwork with a teacher-guided physical activity plan.

Two Ways to Complete the Course

Pathway 1: Incorporate Your Team or Training Program

Already participating in a sports team or structured training program that includes substantial regular physical activity?

Your teacher reviews your program and identifies how suitable training activities can be incorporated into your course plan.

Alongside your training, you complete online lessons, assignments, practical demonstrations and reflections. Your teacher identifies any additional activities needed to address course expectations that your training does not cover.

You record your participation, demonstrate your learning and receive teacher feedback throughout the course.

Pathway 2: Complete the Full Course with Groundwork

You do not need to belong to a team or training program.

Complete the online lessons, assignments and physical activities through Groundwork. Your teacher helps you develop an activity plan using suitable spaces and equipment available to you.

You participate in a variety of activities, submit evidence of your learning and receive guidance and feedback throughout the course.

What You’ll Learn

Active Living and Fitness

Participate in varied activities, overcome barriers, and practise fair play. Explore health-related and skill-related fitness, use training principles, assess progress, and develop and revise a fitness plan.

Safety

Practise safe participation and learn basic first-aid procedures for physical activity injuries.

Movement Skills and Strategies

Develop balance, travelling and object-control skills. Apply movement principles, rules and tactics, and transfer strategies between activities.

Healthy Eating

Connect nutrition with physical, mental, emotional and spiritual health. Develop an eating plan and examine social and environmental influences on food choices.

Personal Safety and Mental Health

Explore safe technology use, recognize mental health warning signs, identify support, and practise responding to bullying and harassment.

Substance Use and Addictions

Examine risk and protective factors, build resilience, and use communication and decision-making to respond to social pressures.

Human Development, Sexual Health and Relationships

Learn about pregnancy and sexually transmitted infection prevention, gender identity, sexual orientation and support resources. Practise healthy relationship skills and informed decisions about consent and personal boundaries.

Living Skills

Develop self-awareness, coping, communication, teamwork, and critical and creative thinking throughout the course.

The Same Expectations for Both Pathways

Both pathways include academic learning and physical participation. Your course plan identifies the work and activities you need to complete.

Training hours alone do not earn course credit. Your teacher assesses your demonstrated knowledge, understanding and skills. Students in either pathway may need additional tasks or activities to demonstrate their learning.

How You’ll Show Your Learning

Your course work may include:

• Practical demonstrations and video submissions.
• Physical activity records and fitness plans.
• Written assignments and reflections.
• Projects, discussions and teacher check-ins.

Your teacher provides feedback to help you understand your progress and next steps.

What You’ll Need

• A computer or tablet with reliable internet access.
• A way to record and submit practical demonstrations.
• Appropriate clothing and footwear.
• Access to safe activity spaces and equipment required by your course plan.

Students using the team or training pathway also provide details of their program for review. Required supervision and safety arrangements are discussed when your activity plan is developed.

Find Your Pathway

Tell us about your current activities, training and goals. Groundwork will help you identify the appropriate pathway and explain the course requirements.

Planned launch: February 2027

Applications are reviewed before registration and payment. We will contact you if proof of prerequisites is required.