ELEMENTARY SCHOOL:

Grades K-6 specially designed physical education program provides the skills and knowledge students need to be successful in middle and high school specially designed physical education. Specially designed physical education introduces playground activities to students in small groups. It allows students to explore and practice various movement concepts, sport related skills, cooperative games, and social skills. From kindergarten through fifth grade, the content is delivered incrementally to best enable student learning at the appropriate developmental level. The emphasis is on development of fundamental locomotor, non-locomotor, and manipulative skills. The movement framework (i.e., body, space, effort, and relationship), basic biomechanical and motor learning principles, and elementary game tactics are also part of the content for elementary school students. Students practice the fundamental locomotor and manipulative skills in a variety of age-appropriate activities. All students use a variety of age appropriate equipment so that they have multiple opportunities to practice skills. As skill level develops, students begin to understand the relationship between correct technique and practice. Students learn team games such as basketball, volleyball, baseball, football, tennis, hockey, and many others.

MIDDLE SCHOOL:

The specially designed physical education program for students in grades seven and eight provides the opportunity to expand the student’s performance and understanding of fundamental movement and motor skills to more specialized movement and motor skills used in a variety of content areas (individual and dual activities, team activities). Specially designed physical education introduces playground activities to students in small groups. It allows students to explore and practice various movement concepts, sport-related skills, cooperative games, and social skills. The content is consolidated and students’ skills are refined, representing a natural progression of skill sophistication. The standards are grade-specific; therefore, the specially designed physical education classes are organized by grade levels. Students engage in team games such as basketball, volleyball, baseball, football, tennis, hockey, and many others.

HIGH SCHOOL:

The high school experience represents the culmination of specially designed physical education instruction for our students. Throughout previous school years students have experienced a planned sequence of formal physical education instructional experiences. When students reach ninth grade, they are ready to integrate all that they know with all that they can do. They become capable of higher-order thinking and more skilled performance. The high school courses provide a blueprint for delivering content in a manner that equips students to make a successful transition from the specially designed physical education instructional program to participation in physical activity during adulthood. The high school also offers the opportunity to participate in competitive high school athletics. The high school is a California Interscholastic Foundation sanctioned school that competes in basketball as well as Track and Field. Students can earn credits while competing on one of these teams.