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Physical Education

Physical Education

At CREC we strive to ensure that every child learns the skills necessary to make health enhancing decisions regarding their own health and advocate for changes to help improve the health of individuals in their family, school, community and beyond.  These skills are designed to help our students make healthy decisions to improve their health now and throughout their lifetime.

Grades 6 - 8

  • Learn and Use Movement Skills: Students will continue developing more advanced movement skills and techniques — including throwing, catching, striking, dribbling, and movement sequences in games and dance — across varied activities and settings.
  • Practice Fitness and Healthy Movement: Students will demonstrate proper form and understanding in fitness activities and skill‑related fitness tasks that support strength, endurance, and overall health.
  • Play and Apply Strategies: Students will use movement concepts, tactics, and strategies in games (such as invasion games, net/wall games, and small‑sided play) to make decisions, solve movement challenges, and improve performance.
  • Promote Safety and Physical Literacy: Students will learn and demonstrate safe practices during activities, including water safety and outdoor activity skills, and understand how physical activity helps keep them healthy.
  • Work Together Respectfully: Students will build teamwork and social skills by communicating, cooperating, offering constructive feedback, and showing respect for rules, teammates, and opponents.
  • Understand Fitness and Movement Knowledge: Students will explore and apply knowledge related to health‑related and skill‑related fitness, exercise principles (such as FITT), monitoring effort and heart rate, and the role of rest and nutrition in physical activity.
  • Set Goals and Self‑Assess: Students will identify personal activity preferences, set fitness goals, monitor progress, and select ways to stay active that are meaningful to them both in school and beyond.
  • Value Physical Activity: Students will recognize that physical activity contributes to health, enjoyment, challenge, social interaction, and self‑expression, and make choices that support lifelong movement.

Resources for Parents at Home

 

For more information, please contact the Health and Physical Education Curriculum Facilitator, Karen Stowe at kstowe@crec.org

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