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Physical Education Department

With the importance of physical, mental, and emotional health, our Physical Education department's goal is to ensure that our students are prepared to understand how to best take care of themselves. With classes like Ethical Health and Fitness and Nutrition, our PE teachers and coaches, instruct in healthy lifestyles and the overall wellness.
Physical Education Courses
 
Ethical Health
This course includes physical, mental and social health topics, preventing illness, and making lifestyle changes that can influence the quality of life. Other related topics to health and wellness are discussed with ethical and moral decision making stressed in relationship to Catholic teaching and doctrine.
 
Fitness and Nutrition
This course focuses on a variety of aerobic, toning and strengthening exercises in order to familiarize students with the numerous ways of leading an active lifestyle. Some of these activities include yoga, Pilates, fitness dance, walking/running, and weight training. In nutritional focus of the course, students will learn about nutrition requirements, nutrition labels, and food preparation in order to have a greater awareness of the impact that their eating and cooking habits have on their physical health.
 
Weight Training and Fitness
This course is designed to help students achieve physical fitness through weight training. Activities will include a weight lifting program designed to fit the needs of the individual student. The course will also include a group stretching program. Nutrition, as it relates to physical fitness, will be covered. Cardiovascular fitness will also be included.
 
Co-Ed Physical Education
The Co-Ed PE course offers students instruction in lifetime activities and fulfills the mandatory PE requirement for graduation. Individual, dual and team sport activities are included, with an emphasis on activities offering lifelong participation opportunities. Fitness activities include basketball, volleyball, football, soccer, racquet sports, and other lifetime activities.
 
Co-Ed Upper Division Physical Education
The Co-Ed Upper Division PE course offers students in the 11th and 12th grade instruction in lifetime activities. Individual, dual and team sport activities are included, with an emphasis on activities offering lifelong participation opportunities. Fitness activities include basketball, volleyball, football, soccer, racquet sports, and other lifetime sports.
Our PE classes help train our students to be physically knowledgeable and to live an active and healthy lifestyle.