Physical Health Education & Kinesiology Student Association (PHEKSA)

The Physical Health Education & Kinesiology Student Association (PHEKSA) has a long tradition of representing KIN and PHE students within the School, going back to the first graduating class of PHE 1950.  A voting member of the Alma Mater Society (AMS), which is the oldest student association in Canada (established 1858), it has a strong history of supporting students from orientation to graduation.

PHEKSA has a President and two Vice-Presidents who oversee a variety of volunteers who provide social and academic experiences for their constituents, including but not limited to the following;

• Orientation to Queen’s, introducing new students to campus and each other.  Incoming students also spend a night at Camp Oconto with academic, social and sports activities to prepare new students for first year.  
• Academic representatives attend the School’s Academic Council and  Undergraduate Sub-Committee meetings.
• Career representatives serve on the Undergraduate Career Committee, which sponsors an annual SKHS Mini-Career Fair and provides workshops supporting career development.
• Students stay in touch through a PHEKSA Facebook group and PHEKSA website.
• Year Reps send out a weekly email to their constituents.
• A monthly publication from PHEKSA called Coaches’ Corner is sent to all KIN students.
• PHEKSA organizes competitive teams for BEWIC Sports Days, the KIN Games (Winners in 2015, 2016 , 2017 & 2018 ) and Historic Hockey (Winners in 2019) at Kingston’s FebFest.
• Since 1991, PHEKSA has supported WAG (Winter Adapted Games) which is a fun-filled day in January of non-competitive games and activities for children and youth from the Kingston community who have an identified disability.  WAG Buddy Application
• PHEKSA encourages its members to promote physical well-being and has done so through clubs such as:
  • Motionball  which is associated with the not-for-profit organization (of the same name) that builds awareness and raises funds for the Special Olympics Canada Foundation (SOCF);
  • Exercise is Medicine, which promotes physical activity as a means of treatment and prevention of illness and disease
• As stipulated in the PHEKSA Teaching Award Guidelines,  PHEKSA annually honours the contributions of SKHS professors and teaching assistants (TAs) teaching in their program.