Health & Physical Education
15 credits of Health and Physical Education over four years during each year of enrollment, distributed as 150 minutes per week each year, are required for graduation in NJ.
Health 9 provides the foundational knowledge and skills necessary for students to live a healthy lifestyle and make responsible decisions. In this course, students will recognize the importance of taking responsibility for their health, and developing strategies to practice healthy behaviors. Topics explored in this course include physical and mental health and wellness, goal setting, building and maintaining healthy relationships, using social media safely and responsibly, and responsible sexual health.
1.25 Credits, 1 QuarterHealth 10 is designed to develop safe, courteous, and knowledgeable drivers. This course focuses on raising the level of awareness about driver impairment and the impact driver impairment can have on safe vehicle operation. Topics explored and emphasized in this course include defensive driving, driver safety and responsibility, awareness of New Jersey driving laws and regulations, and the skills necessary to make responsible decisions while driving.
1.25 Credits, 1 QuarterHealth 11 focuses on the factors, decisions, and resources that lead to a healthy personal lifestyle, as well as the factors, decisions, and resources that contribute to healthy local, state, and global communities. In this course, students will explore nutrition and wellness, health conditions and treatments, mental health and support, as well as information and resources to remain drug and substance free. Making informed decisions, and learning about community health resources and support services available to individuals and communities are also emphasized in this course.
1.25 Credits, 1 QuarterHealth 12 provides students with a firm foundation of knowledge of human sexuality that promotes healthy attitudes and practices. This course provides students with the intellectual, physiological, and emotional tools needed to successfully navigate possible future experiences, such as sexual relationships, pregnancy, parenting, and health care. Health 12 also focuses on locating, assessing, and accessing available community health and support service options.
3.75 Credits, 3 Quarters, grades 9-12Over the course of four years, students will engage in three major areas of study in Physical Education: fitness, team sports, and lifetime activities. Each class, students will participate in a comprehensive lesson related to one of the three units on a cyclical basis. After the comprehensive lesson, students will move to an assigned unit that incorporates one or all of the three courses of study. Sportsmanship, cooperation, and wellness will be integrated in all areas of study.
3.75 Credits, 3 QuartersThe Adaptive Physical Education Curriculum is an organized, sequential curriculum for teaching our students the information and skills they will need to maintain and improve health, prevent disease, reduce health-related risk behaviors, and improve quality of life through lifetime physical activities. Written into this curriculum is the ability to adjust and personalize each activity to best utilize each student’s skills and overcome their personal inabilities and/or handicaps.
1.25 Credits, 1 QuarterThe Adaptive Health & Safety course is an ongoing class for students in grades 9-12. The course provides students with the skills needed to make decisions that will affect their lives today and in the future. Topics include personal hygiene, proper nutrition, decision-making skills, relationships, sexuality, safety, drugs, alcohol, medicines, and health care.