Health & Physical Education

Full Year (27670, 27700, 27690, 27680)

Level: High School

Content Area: Health & Physical Education

Grade(s): 9, 10, 11, 12

Students may be enrolled in Adaptive Physical Education by the school nurse upon recommendation by parents, occupational and/or physical therapist, or the family physician. The physical activities of each individual are developed with the aid and cooperation of the parent, school nurse, family physician, and instructor. The family physician should identify activities which are contraindicated for the disability of the student.

Full Year (27330)

Level: High School

Content Area: Health & Physical Education

Credits: 1.0

Grade(s): 9

This course is designed to enable the student with limited English-speaking ability to participate in a positive physical fitness/health education program. Areas of study include emotional, mental, social, and environmental health, safety and emergency preparedness, relationships, substance abuse and disease prevention and family life education.

Prerequisites: Concurrent enrollment in ELD courses

Full Year (27300)

Level: High School

Content Area: Health & Physical Education

Credits: 1.0

Grade(s): 9

This course integrates a variety of health knowledge skills, and behaviors and provides students an opportunity to physically demonstrate their knowledge and skills in a variety of lifetime activities. Students will identify health resources and become advocates for a healthy lifestyle for themselves, family, and community. Students will demonstrate their knowledge to include emergency first aid and the use of an AED and hands-on practice of skills necessary to perform CPR. Areas of study include emotional, mental, social, and environmental health, safety and emergency preparedness, relationships, substance abuse and disease prevention, and family life education. Instruction will show the importance of energy balance and nutrition. Students will plan fitness goals and understand principles of exercise physiology, biomechanics, and anatomy to improve their personal fitness.

Prerequisites: None

Full Year (27400)

Level: High School

Content Area: Health & Physical Education

Credits: 1.0

Grade(s): 10

Students will demonstrate health and wellness knowledge and skills. Areas of instruction include emotional, mental, social and environmental health; safety and emergency preparedness; relationships; substance abuse, and disease prevention; family life education; and health/medical career promotion. Students will understand principles of exercise physiology biomechanics and anatomy through participation in a variety of lifetime activities. This course emphasizes lifetime physical fitness through individual, group, dance and recreational pursuits. It emphasizes personal fitness by designing, implementing, self-assessing, and modifying a personal fitness plan.

Prerequisites: Health and Physical Education I

Full Year (27410)

Level: High School

Content Area: Health & Physical Education

Credits: 1.0

Grade(s): 10

Students will demonstrate health and wellness knowledge and skills and complete the driver education classroom instruction. Areas of instruction include emotional, mental, social, and environmental health, safety and emergency preparedness, relationships, substance abuse and disease prevention, family life education, and health/medical career promotion. Students will understand principles of exercise physiology, biomechanics, and anatomy in a variety of lifetime activities. This course emphasizes lifetime physical fitness through individual, group, dance and recreational pursuits. It emphasizes lifetime physical fitness by designing, implementing, self-assessing, and modifying a personal fitness plan. Classroom driver education instruction will focus on safe driving attitudes, skill development, risk awareness, driver alertness, driver distractions, the social and economic consequences of driving, occupant protection, positive interactions with other roadway users, and the physical and psychological conditions that affect driver performance. Students and their parents/guardians are required by state law (§22.1-205; HB1782) to attend the parent student driver education component meeting. Wakefield will conduct two meetings per semester. Successful completion of this course and attendance at the meeting entitles the student to a Driver Education Certificate (DEC-1). Successful course completion is partial prerequisite to obtain a Virginia driver’s license for students less than 19 years-of-age (student will still need to successfully complete the in-car instruction).

Prerequisites: Health & Physical Education I, parent, and student attendance at required driver education safety meeting (state law).

Semester (27320)

Level: High School

Content Area: Health & Physical Education

Credits: 0.5

Grade(s): 9

This course integrates a variety of health knowledge skills, and behaviors. Students will identify health resources and become advocates for a healthy lifestyle for themselves, family and community. Students will demonstrate their knowledge in emergency first aid and the use of an AED and hands-on practice of skills necessary to perform CPR Areas of study include emotional, mental, social, and environmental health, safety and emergency preparedness, relationships, substance abuse and disease prevention, and family life education.

Full Year (27500)

Level: High School

Content Area: Health & Physical Education

Credits: 1.0

Grade(s): 9, 10, 11, 12, 12 (extended grades for students with IEP or students who access Special Ed. Services)

Personal Fitness I is an elective physical education course designed for students who have completed HPE I & II. This course introduces students to fitness, strength training, physical conditioning, and lifetime health concepts. It focuses on developing individualized knowledge of weight training and physical conditioning. Students will learn and master training principles and fitness center safety rules before participating in weight room laboratory experiences. The course content includes strategies and instructional techniques to improve muscular strength and endurance, flexibility, and cardiorespiratory endurance. By the end of the course, students will have the necessary information and skills to plan and implement a personal fitness and conditioning program that promotes health and wellness for a lifetime.

Prerequisites: Health & Physical Education I, Health and Physical Education II

Full Year (27501)

Level: High School

Content Area: Health & Physical Education

Credits: 1.0

Grade(s): 10, 11, 12, 12 (extended grades for students with IEP or students who access Special Ed. Services)

Personal Fitness II builds on the foundation established in Personal Fitness I. This advanced course continues to focus on fitness, strength training, physical conditioning, and lifetime health concepts. Students will further develop their individualized knowledge of weight training and physical conditioning. Emphasis is placed on mastering advanced training principles and maintaining a thorough understanding of fitness center safety rules. The course content is designed to allow teachers to select strategies and instructional techniques that cater to diverse student needs, improving muscular strength and endurance, flexibility, and cardiorespiratory endurance. Students will continue to implement and modify their personal fitness and conditioning programs, ensuring they achieve and maintain a health-enhancing level of physical fitness for a lifetime.

Prerequisites: Health & Physical Education I, Health and Physical Education II, Personal Fitness I