• Girls Soccer
• Boys Soccer or Boys Baseball
• Girls Basketball
• Boys Basketball
• Girls Volleyball
• Boys Flag Football

Physical Education

The 6th grade theme is “Learning Through Cooperation”. During the first year of middle school we provide our students with the opportunity to discover how their bodies work while providing them with the opportunity to explore their personal talents. Step-by-step, they learn basic motor skills before moving on to sport-specific skills. This allows them to improve their personal abilities, boost their self-esteem and move with confidence. Students will be introduced to the following:

• Combine skills for practice in lead up games. (a team, individual, or dual activity leading to an organized sport).
• Engage in cooperative games that will be used as lead-up games for traditional sports.
• Participate in variety games and challenging skills such as juggling and tininkling will be used to improve eye hand, eye foot coordination and rhythm.
• Become aware of the interaction of the circulatory and respiratory system in conditioning for health fitness.
• Play lead up games where students recognize the validity of rule application while accepting fairness will apply.
• Work in cooperative groups providing specific positive feedback to peers.
• Keep a yearly progression of their height, weight, body fat percentage, flexibility, muscular strength and endurance.
• Demonstrate leadership skills before class.
• Run a mile under a standardized time for student’s age.
• Throw a variety of objects, demonstrating both accuracy and distance.
• Design and play small group games that involve cooperating with others to keep an object away from opponents (basic offensive and defensive strategy-for example, by throwing, kicking, or dribbling a ball).
• Design and refine a routine, combining various jump-rope movements so that it can be repeated without error.
• Demonstrate correctly activities designed to improve and maintain muscular strength and endurance, flexibility, and cardio respiratory functioning.
• Participate in games, sports, dance and outdoor pursuits, both in and outside of school, according to individual interests and capabilities.
• Recognize the role of games, sports, and dance in getting to know and understand people of diverse cultures.

The 7th grade theme is “Taking Acceptable Risks Through Problem Solving”. This transitional period between 6th and 8th grade will encourage appropriate risk taking by providing students exciting new activities that require creative thinking and problem solving in a controlled, safe environment. Students will also be introduced to individual sports as well as team sports. Students will also build upon and use basic motor skills as well as sports specific skills learned from 6th grade Physical Education.

Students will be introduced to the following:

• Engage in individual as well dual sports
• Describe ways to use the body and movement activities to communicate ideas and feelings.
• Participate in vigorous activity for a sustained period of time while maintaining a target heart rate.
• Identifying proper warm-up, conditioning, and cooling-down techniques and the reasons for using them.
• Understand the principals of spin and rebound as well as begin to experiment with spins of various types such as: counterclockwise, clockwise, backspin and topspin.
• Understand how various ball spins can be used to gain strategic advantage in competition.
• Concerning motor learning, students should be able to understand that performance is measurable in terms of technique, accuracy, distance, and speed.
• Charting their own motor skill development in specific activities and events.
• Accept and respect the decisions made by game officials-whether they are students, teachers, or officials outside of school.
• FIT guidelines for physical exercise, which are the appropriate frequency, intensity, and time required for benefits to be accrued in each health-fitness component.
• Principals of overload, progression, and specificity in physical conditioning.

The 8th grade theme is “Working as a Team to Develop Strategies for Success.” This curriculum concentrates upon team activities. Through each activity an emphasis is placed on increasing muscular flexibility, strength and endurance along with cardio respiratory endurance. Students are encouraged to compare themselves to age level health standards and not to one another.

Students will be introduced to the following:

• Recognizing relationships between skills learned and applying those skills to other sports.
• Understanding the principals of strategy through offensive and defensive sport techniques.
• Development of a plan for a healthy lifestyle taking into account exercises that incorporate the FIT guidelines taught in grade seven as well as the principals of training.
• Learn the appropriate intensity level of exercise while calculating their heart rate and understand the importance of cardio respiratory conditioning.
• Be able to distinguish the health-related fitness components of cardio respiratory endurance, muscular strength and endurance, flexibility and body composition.
• Concerning their self-image and personal development they will develop skills to help reduce stress. Their higher level of motor achievement provides a basis for establishing new personal goals that they can realistically obtain.
• Concerning their social development they will be able to accept personal responsibility for their behavior and resolve individual and group conflicts.
• Practice appropriate ways of learning new skills or sports on his or her own.
• Improve and maintain appropriate body composition.
• Recognize long-term physiological, psychological, and other benefits that may result from regular participation in physical activity.
• Recognize in playing team sports that rules are fair to all and allow for safe participation.
• Understand how growth in weight and height influence the mechanical nature of performance in physical activities.