Physical Education

Physical activity and fitness focuses on individual competence and versatility in movement skills, understanding movement concepts and body dynamics, and relating physical activity to lifelong health. Wellness captures the combination of activity and fitness and a healthy lifestyle.

Students can increase their awareness of the benefits of physical activity and fitness through knowledge about how the body functions. By identifying and experiencing the relationships of exercise to overall health, applying important social skills and safety in physical activity, integrating learning movement with other modes of learning, and practicing strategies to respond to stress, students can enhance their overall health and wellness. Topics generally covered in physical activity and fitness includes: motor skill development, fitness and personal and social competency.

Students will, by repeated practice, acquire and refine a variety of manipulative, locomotor, and non-locomotors movement skills, and will utilize principles of training and conditioning, will learn biomechanics and exercise physiology, and will apply the concepts of wellness to their lives.

• Improve cognitive development: students will understand the relationship between physical activities and improved academic performance.
• Improve physical fitness: improve student’s muscular strength, flexibility, muscular endurance, body composition, and cardiovascular endurance.
• Improve self-discipline: facilitate students’ development of responsibility for personal health and fitness.
• Improve skill development: develop motor skills that allow for a safe, successful and satisfying participation in physical activity.
• Improve self-confidence and self-esteem: help students become more confident, assertive, independent and self-controlled.
• Improve peer relationships: help students socialize with others more successfully, with an emphasis on teamwork and cooperation towards team/group goals.
• Improve community involvement: supports students responsibly toward peer groups, family members and community members.