Advanced Conditioning
Grades: 9-12 Length/Credits: One Semester (0.5 credits)
This is not your typical PE class. This class is designed to push you to your physical fitness limit by introducing current fitness techniques such as: High Intensity Interval Training (HIIT), Tabata, Yoga, and much more. These exercises keep your heart rate up and burn more fat in less time. Benefits of these exercises include increased strength, stamina, and balance. If students have a positive mindset, a strong work ethic, are looking to prepare for the athletic season or just looking for a great workout, this is the class for them!
Nutrition
Grades: 9-12 Length/Credits: One Semester (0.5 credits)
There are many factors involved in living a healthy, fulfilling life. Understanding how to eat healthy, prevent disease, and maintain a healthy weight is part of being healthy. Nutrition is a course designed to empower students to obtain the knowledge and skills necessary to make healthy and informed decisions about what to eat throughout their lifetime.
Physical Education 9/10
Grades: 9-10 Length/Credits: One Semester (0.5 credits)
We continue to develop daily routines for stretching and getting our bodies and minds ready to work and play. Due to space and safety constraints, we stick to classic indoors games, such as soccer, ultimate football, floor hockey, basketball, kickball, speedball and forms of dodgeball. Students are expected to change into PE clothes every day. Students actively participate in circuit-training most Mondays in hopes to develop some life-long fitness skills. This is an elective class for our 9th and 10th graders to select for one semester. Select students may be able to have schedules that allow for a full year of PE.
Physical Education 11/12
Grades: 11-12 Length/Credits: One Semester (0.5 credits)
Students continue to develop daily routines for stretching and getting our bodies and minds ready to work and play. Due to space and safety constraints, we stick to classic indoors games, such as soccer, ultimate football, floor hockey, basketball, kickball, speedball and forms of dodgeball. Students are expected to change into PE clothes every day. Students actively participate in circuit-training most Mondays in hopes to develop some life-long fitness skills. This is an elective class for our 11th and 12th graders to select for one semester. Select students may be able to have schedules that allow for a full year of PE. As upper-classmen, the students have more of a voice and more freedom in the gym environment.
Sexual Health and Drug Education
Grades: 10-12 Length/Credits: One Semester (0.5 credits)
Based on national health standards, medical information, and scientific research, this class offers tools to help young people make healthy decisions about sexual health and drugs. This comprehensive and inclusive class is hands-on, activity based, and gives students a variety of skills and information to navigate through life. This class is based on abstinence as the safest choice, but we do provide instruction on safer sex as well.
Social and Emotional Health
Grades: 9-12 Length/Credits: One Semester (0.5 credits)
There are many factors involved in living a healthy, fulfilling life. Social and Emotional Health is a course designed to empower students to obtain the knowledge and skills necessary to make healthy and informed choices throughout their life. Students examine what it means to be emotionally and socially healthy. This course is based on the national health education standards. During this course, students explore a broad range of social and emotional health topics including: Self Awareness and Self -esteem, Basic Needs, Communication, Conflict Resolution, Community, Relationships & Personal safety, Death and dying, Depression, Stress, Values and Current Events.
Sports Psychology
Grades: 9-12 Length/Credits: One Semester (0.5 credits)
A key component to competitive and athletic success is envisioning both success and what might be an obstacle: we will learn how to do this to enhance each individual student-athlete. All High School student-athletes are encouraged to take Sports Psychology. This is a class that focuses on all that makes a balanced and successful student-athlete: an athlete's diet; the value of preparation, visualization, rest and confidence; what it means to be a teammate; understanding a coach's perspective; sport-specific training; exercise kinesiology (study of human body movement); and the value of recovery.
MS PE & Health
Grades: 6-8 Length: One Semester
Students develop daily routines for stretching and getting their bodies and minds ready to work and play. Due to space and safety constraints, we stick to classic indoor games, such as soccer, ultimate football, floor hockey, basketball, kickball, speedball and forms of dodgeball. One day per week students will be in a classroom learning about health. Students are expected to change into PE clothes every day they are in the gym.
MS Social-Emotional Wellness
Grades: 6-8 Length: One Semester
Social and emotional wellness includes learning to be aware of and manage emotions, work well with others, and persevere when faced with challenges. This course introduces students to the topic of mental health and the ways in which they can implement coping strategies to manage their own challenging thoughts, emotions, and behaviors.