Health and Physical Education Curriculum

Elementary School

The elementary curriculum is built around skill themes such as:

• striking
• balancing
• traveling
• throwing
• jumping

The skill theme approach provides experiences appropriate to a child’s developmental level that combine fundamental movements into more complex and specialized patterns.  These patterns lead to individual, dual and team game or dance situations.  With increased mastery comes increased confidence and enjoyment.

Field testing of Standards-based Assessment and Reporting (SBAR) in PE will occur at selected elementary school sites and grade levels during the 2009-10 school year. Kudos to the team of teachers who have worked hard to prepare the materials and themselves for this trial.

Performance Standards (Grade Level Expectations)

Grade Level Expectations are statements that define what all students should know and be able to do at the end of a given grade level. These GLE's do not represent the entire curriculum for a grade or course, nor does it represent the final word on the content that is
presented. They indicate core content to be mastered by the end of a given grade. Read the K-6 Physical Education Performance Standards (PDF)

Middle School

The middle school refines the motor skills introduced in the elementary curriculum through participation in a wide variety of activities. In addition, this level introduces more sophisticated health-related fitness/wellness concepts.

High School

High school physical education emphasizes fitness and directs students to lifelong activities that can be done individually or with a partner while still offering an array of courses that engage students in team sports.  Throughout the program, students learn how to analyze various sports and recreational pursuits according to their health- and wellness-related benefits.

Current graduation requirements include 1.5 credits of physical education. The .5 credit course entitled “Lifetime Personal Fitness”  must be part of a student’s course of study unless the student participates in after-school sports and chooses to test-out. Two complete seasons of sports participation will satisfy the fitness portion of the test before the student will be eligible to take the computerized knowledge test.

For students who do not participate in after-school sports there is a districtwide test-out event comprised of both fitness and written or computerized tests that is held four times a year.  A test-out packet with specifics about these events and the fitness protocols used in the testing is available at the school Counseling Office or by contacting the Health and PE Department.

Watch a short video on the fitness portion of the
Lifetime Personal Fitness Test-Out

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