Physical Education & Health
The physical education and health program provides a blueprint for how students can live an active, healthy, and balanced life. Likewise, it affords students the opportunity to acquire and hone essential 21st century skills such as critical thinking, problem solving, communication and collaboration, and health literacy in addition to enabling students to become self-directed learners and responsible, productive citizens.
The common goal for both physical education and health education is that students will develop skills, acquire essential knowledge, and, ultimately, make a connection between this knowledge and how it affects their ability to live a healthy and balanced life. Accordingly, students will make plans and take actions that will ensure a lifetime of health and well-being.
The skills learned in physical education and health courses are life-long skills that will benefit the future of all students.
The goal of all physical education courses is for students to understand the relationship between physical fitness and physical activity and living a healthy and balanced life. Emphasis is on the five components of physical fitness and providing students with experiences in a variety of fitness activities including lifetime/leisure, individual and team sports, and physical fitness. Curricular outcomes are to promote students’ personal fitness and encourage their involvement in physical fitness and physical activity, not only during physical education class, but also as an integral part of a healthy lifestyle.
Physical Education Courses
The goal of the health courses is for students to understand the relationship between the various health topics and living a healthy and balanced life so that they can make connections and apply skills for a life-time of health and well-being. The curriculum is based on the State of Connecticut Healthy and Balanced Living Curriculum Framework and emphasis is on the big idea: How do I live a healthy and balanced life? Students will obtain accurate information to help them develop lifelong positive attitudes and behaviors, and, ultimately, make informed, appropriate, and healthful choices that will lead to productive lives.