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SPRING HILL JUNIOR HIGH
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SPRING HILL'S VISION STATEMENT
Spring Hill will be a community of learners where staff, parents, and students work collaboratively to ensure a safe, efficient, and enjoyable environment that prepares students academically, socially, and emotionally to reach their full potential and become positive, contributing members of society.
HEALTH AND PHYSICAL EDUCATION "FITNESS FOCUSED CURRICULUM" SETTING OUR STUDENTS ON A PATH TOWARDS WELLNESS
The direction of Health and Physical Education in the United States is moving towards incorporating more fitness activites and wellness education into the curriculum. In order for our teens to live a healthy lifestyle, they need to be given tools to help them make healthy nutrition and exercise choices.
Spring Hill is using the Nutrition and Activity Journal and Program to help set our teens on a path towards wellness. The program focuses on incorporating more fitness type activites into the Physical Education curriculum and encourages more actvie participation by all students. Lessons on nutrition and fitness basics will be added with a few assignments,which re-enforces the concepts taught. One of the most important aspects of this program is the fitness journal. The journal provides each student with a template to track his/her nutrition and activity habits. Completing the journal pages each week is part of the expectations for the class and it will be graded weekly.
Fitness testing is an important measure of the success of the program. Fitness testing will occur at the beginning, middle, and end of the semester to measure student progress. The testing includes: the mile run, push-ups, sit-ups, shuttle run, flexibility, height, weight, body fat, and BMI. These measures will be kept confidential. Presidential fitness awards will be given to students who achieve various levels of fitness testing.
Classes will have Physical Education on Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Fridays; Health class will be held on Mondays and Wednesdays. 7th grade classes will focus on nutrition, fitness, personal health, communicable and non-communicable diseases, and drug education. 8th grade classes will focus on nutrition, fitness, body systems, and DARE.
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National Standards for Physical Education (taken from Moving into the Future: National Standards for Physical Education, 2nd Edition, NASPE)
A physcially educated person:
Standard 1: Demonstrates competency in motor skills and movement patterns needed to perform a variety of physical activities.
Standard 2: Demonstrates understanding of movement concepts, principles, strategies, and tactics as they apply to the learning and performance of physical activities.
Standard 3: Participates regularly in physical activity.
Standard 4: Achieves and maintains a health-enhancing level of physical fitness.
Standard 5: Exhibits responsible personal and social behavior that respects self and others in physical activity setting.
Standard 6: Values physical activity for health, enjoyment, challenge, self-expression, and/or interaction.
National Health Education Standards
Students will:
Standard 1: Comprehend concepts related to health promotion and disease prevention to enhance health.
Standard 2: Analze the influence of family, peers, culture, media, technology, and other factors on health behaviors.
Standard 3: Demonstrate the ability to access valid information, products, and services to enhance health.
Standard 4: Demonstrate the abiltiy to use interpersonal communication skills to enhance health and avoid or reduce health risks.
Standard 5: Demonstrate the ability to use decision-making skills to enhance health.
Standard 6: Demonstrate the ability to use goal-setting skills to enhance health.
Standard 7: Demonstrate the ability to practice health-enhancing behaviors and avoid or reduce health risks.
Standard 8: Demonstrate the ability to advocate for personal, family, and community health.
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