Physical Education

Physical Education

All students participate in the Physical Education special multiple times per week. Primary students (K-2) have PE three times per week, and upper grades students (3-6) have PE two times per week. During PE, students learn the rules for a variety of sports ranging from floor hockey to gymnastics. Students also learn about the effect of exercise on the human body, the major muscles and their locations, and participate in physical fitness tests and challenges. Students also learn physical skills that go beyond any specific sport, such as the control of a ball, balance, rhythm, and how coordinated movement as a group can produce different forces. Personal discipline, attention to form, good sportsmanship, and an understanding of healthy competition are also visited routinely across all PE units.

Moments from Physical Education Classes

Students practice the log roll during a gymnastics unit.

Students practice the log roll during a gymnastics unit.

Sixth grade students create a gymnastics routine from scratch. Here a student demonstrates a backward roll.

Sixth grade students create a gymnastics routine from scratch. Here a student demonstrates a backward roll.

Mr. Maloney and Mr. Howe talk with a class about expectations for behavior.

Mr. Maloney and Mr. Howe talk with a class about expectations for behavior.

A kindergarten student shows off gymnastics skills. The trick was touching the mat with one foot, one hand, and one's head.

A kindergarten student shows off gymnastics skills. The trick was touching the mat with one foot, one hand, and one's head.

A kindergarten student demonstrates how to touch the mat with only one's bottom during a gymnastics unit.

A kindergarten student demonstrates how to touch the mat with only one's bottom during a gymnastics unit.

Students wait patiently for directions near a blue cone as part of a whole-class game.

Students wait patiently for directions near a blue cone as part of a whole-class game.

Students wait for further instructions at an orange cone.

Students wait for further instructions at an orange cone.

Students in physical education classes use rhythm sticks.

Students in physical education classes use rhythm sticks.

Students stretch before engaging in physical activities.

Students stretch before engaging in physical activities.

A student prepares to knock a ball off a cone during the hockey unit.

A student prepares to knock a ball off a cone during the hockey unit.

Students work in pairs to practice setting a volleyball.

Students work in pairs to practice setting a volleyball.

Primary students practice eye-hand coordination with balloons.

Primary students practice eye-hand coordination with balloons.

Mr. Howe and Mr. Maloney facilitate a game of freeze tag.

Mr. Howe and Mr. Maloney facilitate a game of freeze tag.

A student demonstrates proper push up form before students tackle the push up challenge of their physical fitness test.

A student demonstrates proper push up form before students tackle the push up challenge of their physical fitness test.

Students do the push up portion of their physical fitness test in small groups.

Students do the push up portion of their physical fitness test in small groups.

Primary students love using the parachute.

Primary students love using the parachute.

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