Health Education

Personal Health and Fitness

Students will understand human growth and development and recognize the relationship between behaviors and healthy development. They will understand ways to promote health and prevent disease and will demonstrate and practice positive health behaviors.

Safe and Healthy Environment

Students will demonstrate personally and socially responsible behaviors. They will care for and respect themselves and others. They will recognize threats to the environment and offer appropriate strategies to minimize them.

Resource Management

Students will understand the influence of culture, media and technology in making decisions about personal and community health issues. They will know about and use valid health information, products, and services. Students will advocate for healthy families and communities.

Physical Education

Physical education in the Port Washington Schools prepares students with the knowledge, skills and attitudes essential for leading a physically active and physically fit lifestyle. With physical inactivity being identified as a major risk factor in our sedentary society, physical education makes an increasingly important and integral contribution to the education of the "whole child". The primary focus in this subject area centers on the physical dimension of human development. Curricula are based upon a developmentally appropriate progression, K through 12th grade, of physical activities that nurture the physical, social, emotional, and intellectual development of "all" students. Self-reliance, socialization skills, cooperative skills, work ethic, respect for others and integrity are goals within the curriculum.

Requirements for Complex Motor and Sport Skills
and the development of a Lifetime Fitness Plan for Commencement

In helping to establish compliance with the NYS standards in physical education, the state education department along with the New York State Association for Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance set up guidelines to assure that students in high school achieve commencement competencies in fitness education and complex motor and sports skills.  Students will be expected to work toward competency in six different sport categories and proficiency in three sports categories.  Those categories include goal sports, net and wall sports, outdoor activities, personal performance activities, target activities and striking/fielding activities.  Furthermore, students are expected to complete a lifetime fitness plan based upon fitness testing results, instruction in fitness education and wellness and yearly establishment of goals.  Requirements will be monitored through a cumulative folder beginning with the graduating class of 2003.  

New York State Learning Standards

Adapted Physical Education

Alternative Physical Education

Courses

Medical Excuses

Interdisciplinary Course

Health and Physical Educational Staff

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