Program Description: The physical education program incorporates physical fitness development. Students are provided the opportunity to participate in developmental activities related to muscular strength and endurance, flexibility, and cardiorespiratory endurance. Students engage in motor skills, rhythmic activities, skills related to games and sports, and sequential gymnastic and tumbling skills. Developmental activities focus on power, ability, speed, coordination, reaction and balance. Students are given the opportunity to be physically fit and to learn basic motor skills so they can effectively and successfully participate in individual and team sports at a recreational level to improve the quality of life.

Program Goal: Physical education is an integral part of the elementary school curriculum and seeks to develop skills to the extent that students will feel comfortable using them throughout life.

Time and Staffing: Primary students receive 30 minutes of instruction daily and the intermediate students receive 45 minutes of instruction daily. Primary students receive instruction from the classroom teacher while the intermediate students receive instruction from a physical education specialist. In the larger schools, a teaching assistant works with the physical education teacher in order that all intermediate students might receive instruction.

Curriculum Support:
Physical Education Primary K - 3 (1986)
Physical Education Intermediate 4 - 6 (1986)
Local Scope and Sequence (1992)
FITNESSGRAM (1992)

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