Mission+Statement

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Physical education and health are an essential part of the total educational process and contribute to the overall growth and development of the individual child. This process must be based upon the physical, social, and emotional needs of the student. Every child needs to be afforded the opportunity to grow in the areas of knowledge and understanding, motor skills, attitudes, and personal fitness that will enable him/her to achieve a lifestyle in which regular, vigorous physical activity, nutrition, and healthy choices become an integral part. To these ends our physical education and health programs embrace the following:

We believe that a quality physical education program. ..

1. is standards-based, 2. is developmentally appropriate, 3. is sequential and progressive, 4. encompasses skills, knowledge, and character in its approach, 5. emphasizes recreational lifestyle skills acquisition and development, 6. maximizes applied learning time and minimum of 75% moderate to vigorous exercise, 7. provides appropriate challenges and choices, 8. promotes responsible behaviors and attitudes toward self, others, and our environment, 9. employs efficient, effective grading and assessment practices, and 10. has teachers who demonstrate exemplary instructional/assessment strategies with integrity.