Physical Education

The North-Grand PEI program provides opportunities for students to attain the skills, knowledge, and attitudes essential for a healthy lifestyle. The goal of the North-Grand PEI program is to provide students with developmentally appropriate learning opportunities with meaningful content and instruction. All students will develop health-related fitness, physical competence, cognitive understanding, and positive attitudes about physical activity that promotes a healthy and physically active lifestyle. Students will participate in a range of sports such as flag football, volleyball, basketball, soccer, floor hockey, and FitnessGram activities.

Estimated Homework Time: 50 minutes

College & Career Connections: Fitness and wellness, Rehabilitation, Sports science, Teaching and research, Coaching, Non-profit agencies, and government departments

PE II is a co-ed, 10th grade / Sophomore level, physical education class. This class applies what students learned in PE 1, and aims to continue developing a students’ physical and mental health through swimming and water safety units, several different sport units, and a more advanced health education curriculum. PE 2 students will also take a Driver’s Education class which will certify students for their driving permit. Driver’s Education is also a graduation requirement.

Estimated Homework Time: Students will be allotted enough class time that they should not have to work on classwork assignments at home.

College & Career Connections: PE Instructor, Coaching, Lifeguarding, Driving Instructor.

Team Sports is an upperclassman, Junior/Senior, level physical education course that focuses on rotating sport units, exercise units, and a health/nutrition unit. Each sport unit is around three weeks in length and has a pre and post-unit test to evaluate student growth. The goal of the class is to allow students to participate in a variety of sports to find what interests them as lifelong physical learners. 

Estimated Homework Time: rare that there will be actual homework given out in this class

College & Career Connection: Kinesiology - The study of movement and any related careers, such as medicine, chiropractic, physiotherapy, sports psychology, or specific sports fields.

Senior Leaders is a 12th grade / senior level, physical education class. A senior student must be recommended by a physical education teacher based on their individual academic performance in previous years. Senior students are partnered with students from the North-Grand Special Education classrooms and look to provide physical education opportunities to all students. In Senior Leaders, students will learn to assist others in the physical learning and development of sport and health knowledge. Students will concentrate on skill development, game strategies, skill analysis, officiating rules and techniques, teaching progressions, and methods of organizing and administering various types of activity classes. A strong emphasis is placed upon the development of responsibility for self and others and leadership skills. 

Estimated Homework Time: 50 minutes/Daily 

College & Career Connections: Fitness and wellness, Rehabilitation, Sports science, Teaching and research, Coaching, Non-profit agencies, and government departments 

Students will engage in a variety of introductory physical and classroom based learning activities designed to improve and promote all health related components including muscular strength, muscular endurance, cardiovascular endurance, flexibility and body composition. Students will participate in a combination of classroom learning activities designed to teach students about overall wellness and lifetime physical activities designed to improve health related fitness including but not limited to jogging, Pilates, yoga and circuit training.

College & Career Connections: Fitness and wellness, Rehabilitation, Sports science, Teaching and research, Coaching, Non-profit agencies, and government departments

This course will provide students with the fundamentals necessary for beginner and basic dance skills. This course will develop student appreciation of dance as an art form and a lifetime activity. The enhancement and the development and maintenance of physical fitness, self-confidence, self-discipline, and independence with the body by providing informal showings during class are the goals that are expected to be achieved. Each student should leave this class having been encouraged, esteemed, and take with them a new appreciation of dance. 

Estimated Homework Time: rare that there will be actual homework given out in this class

College & Career Connection: Dancer, Musical Theatre Performer, Kinesiology, Dance Choreographer/Artistic Director, Arts Administration in a theatre or professional dance company, Dance/Movement Therapist, Dance Non-Profit Organizer or Worker, Dance Educator.

This course will provide students with the fundamentals necessary to continue enhancing their dance skills from Honors Dance 1 and developing them into intermediate dance skills. This course will develop student appreciation of dance as an art form and a lifetime activity. Designed to familiarize students with technique, the student will also study vocabulary, different forms of dance, anatomy of dance, and the history pertaining to the world of dance. The student will develop kinesthetic awareness, movement memory, creative abilities, and aesthetic appreciation of various dance forms. The enhancement and the development and maintenance of physical fitness, self-confidence, self-discipline, and independence with the body by providing informal showings during class are the goals that are expected to be achieved. Each student should leave this class having been encouraged, esteemed, and take with them a new appreciation of dance. 

Estimated Homework Time: rare that there will be actual homework given out in this class.

College & Career Connection: Dancer, Musical Theatre Performer, Kinesiology, Dance Choreographer/Artistic Director, Arts Administration in a theatre or professional dance company, Dance/Movement Therapist, Dance Non-Profit Organizer or Worker, Dance Educator.