Overview

The Physical Education program strives to reach students of all ability levels and directly encourages their psychomotor, cognitive and affective growth.  It strongly encourages students to adopt regular physical activity as a means of maintaining physical health and as an avenue towards wellness.    Students are exposed to a variety of developmentally appropriate curricular offerings that include lifetime as well as team sports, dance activities, aerobic activities, cooperative group activities and the Presidential Physical Fitness tests.

The purpose of the Middle School Health program is to help students become more aware of various concepts and issues in the field of health and to encourage them to take an increased responsibility for their personal health and wellness on a lifelong basis.  By providing students now with the tools, knowledge and skills to make informed decisions, it will allow them the opportunity toattain a high level of physical, mental and social wellness throughout their lifetime.

Syllabus

The first half of the year Mrs. Gorse's classes will be involved in physical education.  Activities will include Ultimate Frisbee, Kinball, Volleyball, aerobics / dance and the Presidential Physical Fitness tests.   More information about when we will complete these tests will be posted shortly.

For the second half of the year, Mrs. Gorse's classes will be covering information on individual nutrition  eating plans, reviewing the male and female reproductive systems, talking about pregnancy (especially the difficulties of being a teenage parent), sexually transmitted diseases and HIV/AIDS.

Assignments 

THE GROUP POSTER ON YOUR CHOSEN TOPIC IS DUE AS FOLLOWS:

FOR SECTION 8-2:  TUESDAY, MAY 6TH

FOR SECTION 8-3:  MONDAY, MAY 5TH

Your group will be making a 5 minute presentation to the class on your particular topic during the last 2 classes of the semester.

Announcements

ATHLETIC SCHEDULES!! MIDDLE SCHOOL ATHLETIC TEAM SCHEDULES CAN BE SEEN ON THE SSA WEBSITE OR BY GOING DIRECTLY TO THE www.highschoolsports.net   WEBSITE! UPDATED DAILY INFORMATION CAN BE FOUND ON THE SSA SPORTS HOTLINE (412-968-3095).

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