Health and Fitness

Our Philosophy is to provide students with developmentally appropriate learning opportunities with meaningful content and instruction. All students will develop health-related fitness, physical competence, cognitive understanding and positive attitudes about physical activity that promotes a healthy and physically active lifestyle. By the end of high school, the student will be college ready-or career ready by learning character development, social skills and personal management skills through engaging in a variety of fitness, team activities and individual practices that empower students to make intelligent choices, meet challenges, and develop positive behaviors for a lifetime.

This course is designed to provide information needed to make important decisions about health, wellness, and individual lifestyle. Topics related to health such as personal health and wellness, social and emotional health, safety, nutrition and physical activity, alcohol/tobacco/other drugs, HIV and STI’s Prevention, and sexuality education will be discussed. Emphasis will be placed on the stu- dent’s acquiring knowledge and assuming responsibility for one’s own health. The overall goal of this course is for students to learn about a wide variety of health topics and be able make positive health decisions for themselves in the future based on the information that is presented to them.