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Physical Education

Our Elementary Physical Education Program is designed to:

  1. offer a wide-ranging variety of forms of movement, to allow each student the opportunity to explore, feel capable and feel connected to their own body and how it can move, it's capabilities and limitations,
  2. increase core strength, balance, agility, coordination, and flexibility,
  3. foster resourcefulness, teamwork, problem-solving and strategy in play,
  4. insire students to replicate games/activities/movement outside of class, (why so often games don't require any equipment, or just household equipment),
  5. give students autonomy in revising games and activities as needed, to better fit the perimeters and circumstances of our area of play, number of players, etc.,
  6. provide movement with global background/perspective,
  7. combine movement with music, promoting rhythm and synchronization,
  8. experience the outdoors in all types of weather.

Cooperative games, fitness drills , camping, hiking, archery, obstacle courses, kayaking, tai chi, yoga, soccer, lacrosse, water play, and sledding are just some examples of how students explore, progress, and refine a wide-range of movement skills, and understand how to stay healthy. We also use the track and fields at nearby Huntingtown High for P.E once a month. 
 
“To the young child movement means life.  Movement is an important factor in self-discovery; movement means discovery of the environment; movement facilitates the development of the child’s concepts of time, space and directions; movement means freedom; movement means safety; movement is an important ingredient in communication; movement is sheer enjoyment and sensuous pleasure; movement means acceptance”. -Dr. Keturah Whitehurst


The Tidewater School  |  120 Cox Road, P.O. Box 755, Huntingtown, MD  20639  |  410-257-0533
email: tidewaterschool@thetidewaterschool.org  |  fax:  410-257-0535