Physical and Health Education

.Our effort to promote physical activity among students is a part of a coordinated, comprehensive school health program that is an integrated set of planned and sequential activities and services designed to promote physical, emotional, social and educational development of our students. Our physical education program emphasizes enjoyable participation in physical activity. This program helps students develop the knowledge, attitudes, motor skills, behavior skills and confidence needed to adopt and maintain physically active and healthy lifestyles.
Health education emphasizing proper nutrition and eating habits begins as early as three years’ old and continues through all grades. While younger children focus mainly on the basic concepts of balance between “fun foods” and “growing foods”, older children study healthy eating in the context of human physiology. Older children also learn to respect “drugs” as medications and know they have no place in recreation.
Esteem building and character building is an integral part of the Montessori curriculum and a key factor in helping children adapt and maintain positive and healthy lifestyles.
Sex education is presented to our oldest students in a clinical fashion with an emphasis on the biological and reproductive process. The topic of healthy human emotional and physical relationships may be covered during our in-class character building workshops. Our approach is to help students form healthy common-interest based relationships. We expect all students to act “professionally” and with respect toward one another.