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Play Group - Grade Two curriculum includes:
  • Body management skills - stationary & moving balance, agility
  • Locomotor skills - run, hop, skip, jump, gallop
  • Health-fitness concepts - cardio-respiratory endurance, strength, flexibility
  • Object movement - kicking, dribbling, throw, catch, striking, roll
  • Activities - Throw/catch, hoops, kicking skills, racquet skills, games/parachute, football, floor hockey, basketball, tumbling team, dodge/throw, handball, baseball/striking, frisbee, soccer, scoopball, dance, jump rope for heart, field day.

    Grades Three, Four and Five curriculum includes:
    Fitnessgram assessment, volleyball, field hockey, dance, flag football, team handball, soccer, lacrosse, tennis, ultimate frisbee, speedball, track & field, floor hockey, softball, basketball, badminton, self-defense, field day.

    6th Grade curriculum includes:
    Fitnessgram assessment, wrestling, dance, flag football, volleyball, soccer, lacrosse, ultimate frisbee, speedball, cross-country, floor hockey, baseball, basketball, badminton.

    7th and 8th Grade curriculum includes:
  • Fall - Field hockey, football, cross-country, girls soccer, boys soccer.
  • Winter I - Girls volleyball, 7th grade boys basketball, 8th grade boys basketball
  • Winter II - Girls 7th basketball, girls 8th basketball, boys volleyball, wrestling.
  • Spring - Girls softball, boys baseball, track, boys lacrosse, girls lacrosse.

    9th Grade - Personal Fitness curriculum includes:
    The purpose of the 9th Grade Personal Fitness Course is to present to students the significance of physical activity as it impacts sports-fitness and health-fitness related components. This course will help students understand the benefits of physical activity and exercise, the difference between sports fitness and health fitness, its impact on the development of disease and obesity and how to assess one’s fitness and set personal goals. It consists of three strands: Weight training, Cardio-fitness and Yoga.

    10th Grade - Sport Education curriculum includes:
    The Sport Education curriculum provides students with experiences that allow students to not only learn more completely how to play sports but also how to coordinate and manage their sport experiences. Students learn individual responsibility and effective group membership skills and become a more literate sportsperson, with an appreciation of rules, rituals and traditions of sports and activities.

    11th/12th Grade - Physical Education Electives:
  • Intramurals
  • Cardio-fitness
  • Weight Training
  • Dance
  • Yoga




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