Welcome to Physical Education
at Merton Primary School
We hope you had a summer filled with fun, family, friends and lots of activity! We are so excited to have the opportunity to work with your children in Physical Education. We welcome all of our new Merton students and look forward to meeting all of our new 5K friends. We love what we do and hope that your kids are just as enthusiastic as we are about all of the exciting things they will get to experience over the year.
As your child's Physical Education Teacher, we promise to:
- Create a positive, safe learning environment for all students
- Provide maximum opportunities for students of ALL abilities to be successful
- Promote student honesty, integrity and good sportsmanship-the Merton Way!
- Guide students into becoming competent and confident movers
- Facilitate the development and maintenance of physical fitness
- Expose kids to a variety of motor skills while providing time to experience, develop and grow
- Provide a foundation for conflict resolution and building self esteem
- Inspire students to be active for a LIFETIME!
Look for specials schedules from the classroom teacher
Students will have Physical Education on a rotating schedule for 45 minutes (one week is T/Th and the next week is M, W & F). It is important that you know when your child has class so you can make sure they are dressed appropriately. Comfortable clothes and gym shoes should be worn. There may be days where we will be outside for class as well.
Concepts that we will be focussing on:
Movement Concepts
This is the foundation in which a high quality Physical Education program is built upon. It includes skills that teach body awareness (what the body can do), space awareness (where the body can move), relationship awareness (the interactions with objects/people), and effort awareness (the dynamics and qualities of movement.
Skill Themes
These are fundamental motor skills that are later modified into more specialized skills upon which more complex activities/sports are built.
Fitness/Wellness Concepts
At the elementary level our focus is that children develop knowledge skills and attitude to achieving physical fitness. Students will begin to recognize that physical fitness consists of several different components and can identify some of them.