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Freedom Hill Elementary School

1945 Lord Fairfax Rd, Vienna, VA 22182
Main Office 703-506-7800 | Fax 703-506-7897

Attendance Line 703-506-7878 | Clinic 703-506-7810

Principal: Timothy Stanley
Assistant Principal: Jessica Lewis

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Physical Education Team
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Noel Fleming - Adaptive Physical Education Teacher

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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

 

Last updated: October 15, 2009
Web Curator: Laura King
Laura.King@fcps.edu