The PALS program will benefit your students by:

Providing opportunities for student leadership.

• Involving junior and intermediate students as PALS leaders provides them with opportunities to improve their leadership skills by working through problems using positive communication, compromise, and co-operation.

Increase students’ sense of belonging and inclusion.

• A child’s self-esteem and sense of social well-being can be enriched by playing with other children in an environment that encourages positive interactions through sharing, cooperation and communication.
• Bullying prevention and intervention promotes the development of healthy, safe, respectful and caring relationships between students, allowing them to be successful in school and in their relationships with peers. A positive school climate exists when all members of the school community feel safe, included and accepted and actively promote positive behaviours and interactions.

Increase opportunities for physical activity to improve students’ physical literacy.

The program will provide opportunities for students to voluntarily engage in a variety of physical activities that allow them to practice fundamental movement skills and learn game strategies.

• Through their participation in structured and unstructured physical activities, students may gain the skills, competence and confidence required to explore a wide variety of physical activities that benefit their healthy development.
• Physical literacy and physical activity positively impact a child’s physical, social, emotional, and intellectual development.