What is SPEA?

2. What is SPEA? Saskatchewan Physical Education Association The Saskatchewan Physical Education Association is a provincial non-profit incorporated organization that provides quality leadership, advocacy and resources for professionals in physical and health education in order to positively influence the lifestyles of Saskatchewan’s children and youth. The main objective of the organization is to promote and support active healthy lifestyles through the development of physical education, recreation and sport at all levels of the educational system.

3. Q D P E Quality Daily Physical Education

4. The Goal The goal of QDPE is to provide skills and attitudes to make active living a way of life in which physical activity is valued in daily life. Quality Daily Physical Education includes the following: Instructional Component • Meets Sask. Ministry of Education’s Curriculum Guidelines • A minimum of 150 minutes of Physical Education per 5 day week • Offers an Intramural program with a wide range of activities • Offers an Inter School Program Grades 7-12

5. Making QDPE Happen How is this accomplished? 1. Planning • Timetabling 3. Support Systems

6. Health Benefits of QDPE • Improves Bone Density • Increases Muscle Strength • Increases Flexibility • Better Sleeping Habits

7. AcademicBenefits of QDPE • Improved skill in Math and Reading • Better Memory • Better Concentration • Improved Peer Relations

8. Mental Health Benefits of Q D P E • Increases Self-Esteem • Reduces Anxiety • Reduces Stress

9. LifestyleBenefits of Q D P E • Youth who are active are less likely to consume alcohol • Youth who are active are less likely to smoke • Youth who are active are less likely to be involved with delinquency and crime

10. QDPE AWARD BANNERS • If you are a QDPE school, you may apply for our banner award. You only need to be following the Ministry of Education curriculum guidelines. • This attractive banner will be sent to your school free of charge. • Each year thereafter, upon application, you will receive a year patch to place on your banner to recognize your continued efforts in being a QDPE school.

11. What Membership Services Does SPEA Provide? SPEA has the following resource kits available for loan: • Keeping Kids Active K-5 • Speed Stacks K-12 • Disc Golf K-12 • Pedometers K-12 • Keeping Everyone Active 6-12 • Jumbo Stacks/Fitness Spots K-12 • Moving To Inclusion K-12 • Up Down, All Around Gymnastics • No Gym, No Problem Resource Book

12. Keeping Kids Active Kit # 1 • This kit consists of two large containers filled with innovative equipment. • Activities designed for limited spaces such as the classroom or hallway. • Activities designed for large spaces such as the gymnasium or outdoors. • The manual that accompanies this kit is now available on our website. www.speaonline.ca

13. Sport Stacking with Speed Stacks Kit # 2 • Sport Stacking is a track meet for your hands at warp speed. • It’s an exciting individual or team sport where participants stack and unstack 12 specially designed high-tech cups in predetermined pyramids . • Stackers race against the clock, head to head or in team relays.

14. Sport Stacking Is… Kit # 2 • Easy to learn for all ability levels • Helps develop motor skills, patterning, sequencing, focus and concentration • Promotes hand-eye coordination and ambidexterity • Improves bilateral brain and body proficiency • Resource kit has enough stacks for 30 students

15. Disc Golf • The sport of Disc Golf has evolved from recreational Frisbee throwing. • It similar to traditional golf. • A disc golf set consists of a driver, mid-range drive and a putter, each disc having a specific purpose. • The object is to complete each hole in the fewest throws. • After tee off, each throw is made from the previous landing spot, the challenge being to accurately propel the disc from various distances toward the intended target. Kit #3

16. Disc Golf Kit #3 • This resource kit comes with a basket and 20 discs • This sport has potential to become a life long activity • Laundry baskets or garbage cans may be used for disc golf baskets.

17. Ultimate Disc 4 Ultimate Discs and 8 Field Markers are included in the Disc Golf Resource Non contact team sport Mixes features of soccer, basketball, football and netball Two teams of seven players Object of the game is to score goals When you get the disc you must stop and throw it to another player By passing player to player the offence attempts to work the disc up the pitch towards the end zone they are attacking

18. Pedometers Kit # 4 • This kit contains a classroom set of 30 pedometers and an activity manual. • Pedometers make students cognitively aware of their activity.

19. Keeping Everyone Active Kit # 5 • Action Plans Exercise Balls • Aerobics Compasses • Body Image Fitness Training • Circuit Training Dance • Compassing - Ballroom • Orienteering - Disco • Heart Rate Watches - Salsa • Resistance Tubing - Hip Hop • Pilates Tae Bo • Stuntastics Workouts • Yoga Walking Program This kit was created with a focus on creating more equitable learning opportunities that focus on physical activities for a broader spectrum of people. For example: the female gender and students with special needs.

20. Kit #6 Jumbo Stacks/Fitness Spots

21. Kit #6 Jumbo Stacks/Fitness Spots Jumbo Stacks are a perfect way to turn up the fun and add more movement at the same time. Floor relays and doubles stacking are a whole new challenge with these large scale cups. One cup is 27cm high x 23 cm wide Three different color sets of 12 jumbo cups each and a stack mat/timer are included so the whole class can participate at once. Stack Spots are a popular type of floor marker used in P.E. classes to indicate a place to do a specific activity. Stack Spots combine Sport Stacking activities with fitness activities to further enhance the fitness aspects of sport stacking. Each set of Stack Spots contains 10 Stacking Spots and 10 Fitness Spots.

22. Kit #7 Moving To InclusionThe purpose of Moving To Inclusion is to provide physical education and activity leaders a tool that will help them include individuals with disabilities in a wide variety of physical sport programs. Regardless of the environment – recreational, competitive, educational, or fitness and wellness pursuits – one should expect and be ready to offer enjoyable and satisfying opportunities to all individuals, including those with disabilities.This kit contains a complete version of ten disability specific manuals, “Inclusive Games & Sports” manual, adapted lesson plans and many inclusive pieces of equipment to try with your students.

23. Kit #8 Up Down, All Around Gymnastics Up Down, All Around Gymnastics These lesson plans are the best resource available for teaching young children fundamental gymnastics & movement. Quick and easy for the teacher, excellent illustrations, new games each lesson, written by experts, emphasis on fun, fitness & movement fundamentals, minimum of special equipment required. These lesson plans help you teach kids to explore movement safely. Teacher workshops available throu.gh Ruschkin Publishing

24. Kit #9 No Gym, No Problem • We understand that bad weather, lack of facilities and scheduling conflicts are among the challenges for physical educators. This resource book contains nearly 100 activities which may be used to meet specific skills, concepts or fitness objectives to overcome space limitations.

25. Booking SPEA Resource Kits Loaner kits are available to all SPEA members for a 3 week pre determined schedule. SPEA memberships cost $25.00 annually or a student membership cost is $10.00 annually Resource Kits can be signed out from our Executive Director - Holly Stevens at: spea@xplornet.com Or phone: (306) 656-4423

26. Booking SPEA Resource Kits The details………. • An information package will be sent to you prior to receiving a kit. • Kits will arrive by bus prior to your booking. • Before using the kits, fill out the inventory sheet provided • All kits have a 3 week pre-determined use period – Keeping Everyone Active has a 6 week pre-determined use period • When your booked time is over, do another inventory count. • Fax the completed inventory sheet to the SPEA office and ship the kit by bus to the next user. • The school using the equipment pays the bus charges to send the kit to the next school. • Any lost or broken items will be invoiced to the user.

27. What Membership Services Does SPEA Provide? Annual Provincial Conference • Held the first Wednesday – Friday in May –Hosted in Saskatoon or Regina. • Conference includes a variety of practical and theoretical sessions geared to both the generalist and specialist teacher of physical education in elementary and secondary schools. • Excellent opportunity for professional development, networking and socializing creating fresh ideas for your school • SPEA members have the opportunity to apply for Professional Development Assistance to attend our conference.

28. What Membership Services Does SPEA Provide? This is a source of information with greetings from our executive, awareness articles, lesson plans, information about our conference and award winners. On the Move is the official publication of the Saskatchewan Physical Education Association. On the Move is published online twice a year (January and July)

29. What Membership Services Does SPEA Provide? • Members electronically receive information regarding physical/health upcoming events and current information, awards, scholarships, workshop opportunities and SPEA programs such as QDPE • SPEA Conference updates and information • Need help with your physical education program? Email or call and we will find you the answers • Be entitled to borrow any of our 9 different resources

30. SPEA AWARDS SPEA is proud to recognize deserving individuals for their contributions to physical education in the province by presenting the following awards at our conference: • Paul Renwick Award - Outstanding contribution to physical education • QDPE Professional of the Year Award – works within a QDPE school, implements QDPE, promotes QDPE and personally lives a QDPE lifestyle • Local Initiative Awards – 5 recipients, one in each region of the province displaying significant achievements in physical education • SPEA Scholarships – 2 recipients, high school graduates enrolled in the College of Education (physical education major or minor) or College of Kinesiology • Book Awards – 4 recipients chosen by College of Education U of S and U of R and College of Kinesiology U of S and U of R • NOMINATE A COLLEAGUE BY FEBRUARY 28 ANNUALLY – if your nominee is chosen, you and the recipient will receive a one year SPEA Membership.

31. PHE Canada Awards Presented at the SPEA Conference PHE Canada Dr. Andy Anderson Young Professional Award –is given to one individual per province that best epitomizes exemplary work on behalf of the profession. PHE Canada Physical Education Teaching Excellence Award (PETE) - for teachers that provide outstanding teaching performance at the elementary, middle and secondary levels, and who have an exceptional ability to motivate students to participate in a lifetime of physical activity. PHE Canada Health Educator Award – honors an individual for their work to further the importance of health education in Canada PHE Canada Health Promoting School Champion Award - recognizes an individual , group or organization for their exemplary contribution to the development promotion and/or implementation of Health Promoting Schools

32. SPEA Partnerships We are currently in partnership with various organizations that recognize the need for quality physical education programs for children and youth. They include: • Saskatchewan Parks and Recreation Association (SPRA) • Sask. Sport • University of Regina • University of Saskatchewan • In motion • Saskatchewan Teachers Federation (STF) • Saskatchewan Ministry of Education • Physical and Health Education of Canada (PHE Canada) • Saskatchewan High School Athletic Association (SHSAA) • Saskatchewan Health Educators Association (SHEA)

33. SPEA SPEA has been the central voice for physical educators in Saskatchewan since 1959. The association recognizes that schools are the only institutions that provide equal access opportunities for every child to take part in a quality physical education programs. The goal is to develop positive attitudes towards the importance of living healthy, active lifestyles. For more information about SPEA, please visit our website www.speaonline.ca or contact the SPEA office at: (306) 656-4423 Like us on Facebook Join us on Twitter @speaonline