WELCOME TO PHYSICAL EDUCATION (PE)
Fort Worth ISD supports health and physical education for all students. Lifetime benefits are derived from an active lifestyle and knowledge of the importance of nutrition, hygiene, and healthy choices made at a personal and interpersonal level.
Our Mission
To teach all FWISD students the benefits of an active and healthy lifestyle and provide tools to achieve lifetime wellness.
What is Physical Education?
Physical Education (PE) develops students' competence and confidence to take part in a range of physical activities that become a central part of their lives, both in and out of school. Students will be introduced to a variety of activities while also learning proper form with basic body movements to help build strength, endurance, and stamina. Our goal for your student is to help encourage a positive, healthy mindset while engaged in physical activity.
History of PE:
Physical education has existed since ancient times, but it wasn’t until several hundred years ago that the term itself (abbreviated as phys ed or PE) came into being. Its earliest known use comes, oddly enough, from a 1748 book titled Critical Reflections on Poetry, Painting, and Music: “Cannot some years prove more favorable than others to the physical education of children. . . ?” A few decades after these words were published, gymnasiums opened across Europe, especially in Germany, where gymnastics associations (or turnvereins) fostered physical health as well as civic involvement and cultural enrichment. Thanks in part to immigration, these clubs, and European enthusiasm for athletics in general, spread to the U.S. During the 19th century, American educators adopted European methods of teaching physical training, and both the word physical education and the phenomenon it represents became well established in this country.
For more information, please contact
Coach Elizabeth Snyder (Girls) elizabeth.snyder@fwisd.org Coach Michael Moseley (boys) - michael.moseley@fwisd.org