K-3 Physical Education

Physical education in kindergarten is the beginning of a process. At the beginning of their first year at High Point, the kindergarten students still have one foot in preschool and have not had a formal physical education class. In kindergarten to second grade, physical education class is a combination of stretching, running, and skill practice of well-thought-out and proven scope and sequence that corre­sponds to a specific unit of the master physical education calendar for the year (based on the Com­prehensive Elementary Physical Education Program by Craig Cunningham and Don Morris).  Physical education in third grade continues the stretching and running disciplines of kindergarten to second grade, plus skill practice according to the specific unit of the master physical education calendar for the year.  Third grade is the first year that the students participate in the President’s Fitness Tests.