Discover the Physical Education program at White Oak School, aligned with Massachusetts Comprehensive Health Curriculum Frameworks. Students engage in manipulative, locomotor, and non-locomotor movement skills, training principles, biomechanics, and wellness concepts. Health curriculum, delivered by PE teacher and school nurse, covers grade-appropriate topics. Learn how we promote lifelong fitness habits.
All students are enrolled in a year-long physical education class which meets either two or three days a week opposite of the elective they are enrolled in.
The goal of the White Oak School Physical Education Department is to provide students with the necessary skills needed to make fitness a life-long habit. In order to meet this goal the department's curriculum is aligned with the Massachusetts Comprehensive Health Curriculum Framework, which is as follows:
Students will, by repeated practice, acquire and refine a variety of manipulative, locomotor, and non-locomotor movement skills, and will utilize principles of training and conditioning, will learn biomechanics and exercise physiology, and will apply the concept of wellness to their lives.
The Health Curriculum follows the Massachusetts Curriculum Frameworks Strands. Grade appropriate information is delivered by the physical education teacher and the school nurse.
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