Our mission is to promote and enhance the physical and emotional health and well-being of every member of our educational community, so that each individual can achieve his or her highest goals and aspirations and live a healthy and balanced lifestyle. Students are required to successfully complete a PE and Wellness course each year, grades 9-12. Each course is a quarter long and will be coupled with a Health and Safety Course.
Students in Physical Education will engage in regular, rigorous and enjoyable physical activities
to improve their overall health.
The Physical Education Department strives to promote total wellness — physical, mental, emotional and social — through a planned, sequential program of selected activities. The goals of the Physical Education program are to develop knowledge and appreciation of the lifetime benefits of maintaining individual fitness, health-related physical fitness, and skill-related physical fitness. Students will have choices within each Physical Education & Wellness course that will better align to his or her longtime fitness goals. Students are required to obtain a total of 1.0 credit in PE and Wellness in order to graduate.
Please note: Students who are excused from Physical Education classes by a physician have the opportunity to make up the classes when released by a physician. Students who cannot make up the classes by the end of the semester must retake the course.
Grade 9 (0.25 Credits)
Level: 2- 502110
This integrated program is designed to help each student achieve and maintain a healthy level of overall fitness for life. Starting with a baseline measurement of their own levels of fitness, students will then focus on a variety of physical and health related activities. Activities range from individual and partner sports to team sports and games. A fitness component is included, throughout the course, with a focus on developing the overall fitness levels of each student.
Grade 10 (0.25 Credits)
Level: 2 –502111
This course encompasses classroom and physical activity experiences with the emphasis on self-direction and resourcefulness as students explore topics related to behavior change and goal setting, as well as understanding the roles of team members and the responsibilities needed to get a team to perform at its best in pursuit of reaching a common goal. This course explores and applies Tuckman's model of collaborative teaming in a classroom and physical activity setting. Non-traditional games and activities will be the emphasis of this course.
Prerequisite: PE and Wellness 1
Physical Education and Wellness III
Grade 11 (.25 credit)
Level 2 - 502112
Prerequisite: PE and Wellness I and II
In Physical Education and Wellness III students will have the opportunity to develop their PE program over the course of the marking period to fit their fitness interests and goals. They will have the opportunity to choose between the Competitive PE, Strength and Conditioning for Athletic Performance, Shape-Up, and Coaching curriculum. **See Elective descriptions below.
Elective Descriptions:
Competitive PE
This elective is offered for those students who desire an additional physical education course with an emphasis on competition and challenge. Students will participate in team, small group and individual sports in a competitive atmosphere. Students who have fulfilled all their other elective requirements may take this class a second time.
Coaching
This elective is offered for those students who are interested in coaching individual and team sports. This course will prepare students for organizing, running and developing practices for various sports as well as how to work with athletes in one on one training to develop specific skills. This class will be taught through classroom lessons as well as developing and instituting practice plans in the gymnasium or athletic fields.
Strength and Conditioning for Athletic Performance
Need to learn how to strength train to become stronger and quicker in your sport? Here you will learn how to properly increase muscle mass and build cardiovascular endurance to become the best athlete you can, enhancing all of the hard work put in. This class is geared towards highly active athletes who are interested in developing their performance on the field or in the gym.
Shape-Up
This elective encompasses a fitness experience that emphasizes the student’s ability to understand the various components of fitness with an emphasis on collecting and analyzing personal metrics to plan out individual flexibility, cardiorespiratory and strength programs. It is designed for students who are interested in physical activity through fitness and weight training. Students will have an opportunity to work alongside instructed yoga, interval and circuit training routines.
Physical Education and Wellness IV
Grade 12 (.25 credit)
Level 2 - 502113
Prerequisite: PE and Wellness I, II and III
In Physical Education and Wellness IV students will have the opportunity to continue to develop their PE program over the course of the marking period to fit their fitness interests and goals. They will have the opportunity to choose between the Competitive PE, Strength and Conditioning for Athletic Performance, Shape-Up, and Coaching curriculum. Students can continue what they learned from their electives during PE and Wellness III or explore different electives during their final year of PE. **See Elective descriptions below.
Elective Descriptions:
Competitive PE
This elective is offered for those students who desire an additional physical education course with an emphasis on competition and challenge. Students will participate in team, small group and individual sports in a competitive atmosphere. Students who have fulfilled all their other elective requirements may take this class a second time.
Coaching
This elective is offered for those students who are interested in coaching individual and team sports. This course will prepare students for organizing, running and developing practices for various sports as well as how to work with athletes in one on one training to develop specific skills. This class will be taught through classroom lessons as well as developing and instituting practice plans in the gymnasium or athletic fields.
Strength and Conditioning for Athletic Performance
Need to learn how to strength train to become stronger and quicker in your sport? Here you will learn how to properly increase muscle mass and build cardiovascular endurance to become the best athlete you can, enhancing all of the hard work put in. This class is geared towards highly active athletes who are interested in developing their performance on the field or in the gym.
Shape-Up
This elective encompasses a fitness experience that emphasizes the student’s ability to understand the various components of fitness with an emphasis on collecting and analyzing personal metrics to plan out individual flexibility, cardiorespiratory and strength programs. It is designed for students who are interested in physical activity through fitness and weight training. Students will have an opportunity to work alongside instructed yoga, interval and circuit training routines.
Grade 9,10,11,12 (0.5 Credits)
Level:E-50E310
In this program co-teachers and peer teachers will work alongside students needing assistive physical education. This course will provide valuable teaching experiences to students interested in pursuing a career in teaching, physical/occupational therapy, and any other related heath field.
This course does not count towards the PE credit requirement, but does count towards elective credit.