Lifelong Wellness with Fitness and Food 

This class will connect Good Nutrition with Daily Physical Activity and demonstrate how both affect overall health and wellness of the individual. Students will understand the relationship between good nutrition and physical activity by participating in multiple units that provide the students with opportunities to learn, practice AND apply each concept through both Food Science Labs and Physical Education Fitness Labs. Students will spend half of the time in the Food Science Classroom and/or Lab and the other half of the time in the Physical Education Department utilizing the Main Gym, Weight Room, Aerobics Room, Field House, and outside in nature.

Students may waive their PE class when:

1. They have a medical waiver:

   • Students will be exempt from PE who have a signed doctor’s note on file in the guidance office stating the reason for a medical exemption.

   • The doctor’s note determines the length of time a student is exempt.

   • Failure to return to PE when a medical waiver ends will result in an "F" grade for each day missed, and the student could fail PE for the semester.

   • Students out of PE for more than two weeks will be placed in a study hall.

2. They are a Junior or Senior involved in ongoing participation in an interscholastic athletic program or marching band.
   
   

   • Juniors and Seniors waived out of PE for sports or band will stay out of PE for the remainder of that semester.

   • Students may not waive PE if the waiver would give them a third study hall. Likewise, Juniors and Seniors who have two study halls and drop a class will lose their PE waiver and be placed in a PE class.

Students have the responsibility of informing their counselor when dropping a sport, band, or the medical waiver and must return to PE immediately. Failure to return to PE when the sport or band is dropped or a medical waiver ends will result in an ‘F’ grade for each day missed, and the student could fail PE for the semester.