What happens in Primary Physical Education?

Every teacher's goal is to inspire students to be independent thinkers! In Physical Education in West Irondequoit, this goal, along with the goals of the New York State Education Department and the National Standards for Physical Education are encompassed in your child's curriculum for learning.

Each child should experience the joy of movement through many different avenues in Physical Education class. It is our idea to foster and direct the high energy level and natural delight in movement which every child possesses by introducing thought provoking movement problems. The children are encouraged to respond physically in a vast variety of ways, at their own level of ability and experience. They do so in individual, creative and thoughtful ways.

As we move from first grade to second grade, we continue to explore basic movement, but we do so in ways that are more complex and include more partner and small group work. At this second and  level, we try to refine movements and consciously attempt to make them more efficient, expressive and thoughtful.

Third graders are even more highly challenged, as they are called upon to apply movement principles to basic level games, dance and gymnastic activities. It is here that the students are also encouraged to put movements together in a smooth manner to create movement sequences. Third graders also become astute movement critics as they attempt to identify movement patterns and concepts in others.

The themes which we explore in class are unique in that the concept can be used as a focus or as a variable when learning future themes,