Freedom Hill Elementary School

Physical Education Team
Ian Dowling
Maeve Deeny
Noel Fleming - Adaptive Physical Education Teacher

Health and Physical Education Program
Virginia requires all students to receive health and physical education instruction at all instructional levels from grades K-10.

The health and physical education program is designed to teach students the skills, knowledge and attitudes essential to live a healthy lifestyle and select healthy and safe behaviors.

Physical education content includes:

fitness and conditioning
fitness planning
rhythmic activities and dances
stunts
tumbling and gymnastics
lifetime sport activities

Health education content includes:

alcohol, tobacco, and other drug prevention education
mental health education
nutrition education
personal and community health and safety
lifetime survival skills
health and lifestyle
first aid
CPR
disease and the human body

Sex education content begins in grades 5 and continues through high school.

The Fairfax County Public Schools Comprehensive Health and Physical Education Program envisions the following:

A well-articulated K-10 comprehensive physical education and health program that prepares all students to actively and effectively achieve and promote lifelong wellness;
A continuous sequence of learning, firmly rooted in both public health and educational research and effective practice;
An instructional sequence that provides all students multiple opportunities to use the acquired knowledge and skills in meaningful, authentic, and realistic ways; and
A school community that recognizes and fosters the intrinsic value of wellness.

Wellness involves the attainment and maintenance of moderate to high levels of physical, intellectual, emotional, spiritual, and social fitness.

The classroom teacher provides health instruction. Physical education instruction is taught by certified physical education teachers and is scheduled for 90 minutes each week.

Unique Programs at Freedom Hill
PE Club for students in grades 3-6
Sixth Grade Basketball
School-wide Running Program
Field Day
Staff vs. Sixth Grade Volleyball Game
Jump Rope for Heart