Setting Goals

We learn to set not only fitness goals with ourselves but overall life goals. Physical Education benefits students in MANY ways!!!

• Increases fitness levels
• Develops and encourages creativity
• Develops positive self-esteem
• Improves motor, social and emotional skills
• Increases muscular endurance and flexibility
• Increases body awareness
• Reduces risk for specific health problems including; coronary heart disease, hypertension, colon cancer, and depression, as well as lower all-cause death rates.
• (CDC 1990 Youth Risk Behavior Survey)
• Physically fit kids perform better academically.(CDE 2012 Fitness and Academic Performance Study)
• And most importantly, it's ALWAYS fun!!!

"Physical activity is good not only for the heart, but also for the brain, feeding it glucose and oxygen, and increasing nerve connections, all of which makes it easier for children of all ages to learn. Numerous studies show that children who exercise do better in school." -- Newsweek (2/96),

"Children who engage in daily physical education show superior motor fitness, academic performance, and attitude toward school as compared to their counterparts who do not have physical education." -Pollatschek & Hagen (1996)

Caterino & Polak (1999) suggest that such physical activity as running, jumping, and aerobic game playing have a definite impact of children's frontal lobe-a primary brain area for mental concentration, planning, and decision making.

The power to live a strong healthy life can not be accomplished in school alone. Make physical fitness and health a part of every day and every person in your life.