5th Grade

Welcome to 5th Grade Physical Education (P.E.). Students are provided P.E. instruction twice a week for sixty minutes. The program is designed to cover a variety of skill and fitness-related activities to enhance physical well-being. Personal fitness level evaluations on muscle strength, muscle endurance, flexibility, and aerobic capacity are assessed throughout the year. In addition to the various fitness and motor skills students will be assessed on the fitness, health and nutrition relationship to physical activity.

This year will also include the California State Fitness Assessment called the Physical Fitness Test (PFT) or FITNESSGRAM. The PFT is given during 5^th, 7^th and 9^th grade Physical Education. This test is designed to assess your child’s physical fitness level. The test increases in difficulty each year. For more information on this assessment please log onto http://www.cde.ca.gov/ta/tg/pf/ and https://pftdata.org/.

Skill/fitness evaluations and concepts will be posted in the WCS weekly communication as they are assigned. All student grades can be found on Illuminate. For more information, please CLICK HERE for full policy and procedures. For our Locker room policy CLICK HERE.

For more details on specific lessons, tests and other happenings in P.E., check out our weekly WCS newsletter communication every Friday at 4 PM.