Welcome to the EFMHS Physical Education Department web page!

The EFHS Phys. Ed. department consists of Mr. Michael Crane and Mr. Stephen Jette.

Enosburg Falls High School currently offers three different Physical Education courses. Project Adventure, Team Sports, and Lifetime Sports!!!

Students need 1.5 PE credits as a graduation requirement (3 classes).

Please visit the VT D.O.E. website for Physical Education grade expectations!

National Standards for Physical Education

Physical activity is critical to the development and maintenance of
good health. The goal of physical education is to develop
physically educated individuals who have the knowledge, skills,
and confidence to enjoy a lifetime of healthful physical activity.

Are YOU a physically educated person??!!:

Standard 1:
Demonstrates competency in motor skills and movement patterns needed to perform a variety of physical activities.

Standard 2:
Demonstrates understanding of movement concepts, principles, strategies, and tactics as they apply to the learning and performance of physical activities.

Standard 3:
Participates regularly in physical activity.

Standard 4:
Achieves and maintains a health-enhancing level of physical fitness.

Standard 5:
Exhibits responsible personal
and social behavior that respects self and others in physical activity settings.

Standard 6:
Values physical activity for health,
enjoyment, challenge, self-expression, and/or social interaction.

Benefits of Daily Physical Activity

1. Establishes good heart-healthy habits in children and counters the obesity, high blood pressure, poor cholesterol levels, poor lifestyle habits, etc. that lead to heart attack and stroke later in life.

2. Keeps weight under control

3. Improves blood cholesterol levels

4. Prevents and manages high blood pressure

5. Prevents bone loss

6. Boosts energy level

7. Helps manage stress

8. Releases tension

9. Improves the ability to fall asleep quickly & sleep well

10. Improves self-image

11. Counters anxiety and depression and increases enthusiasm and optimism

12. Increases muscle strength, giving greater capacity for other physical activities

13. Provides a way to share an activity with family and friends

14. Helps prevent heart disease by improving blood circulation throughout the body

15. In older people, helps delay or prevent chronic illnesses and diseases associated with aging and maintains quality of life and independence longer.

 

...Need we list MORE?!?!?

Being prepared consists of the following:
1) Sneakers (not boots, crocks, sandals, bare feet, etc.)
2) Change of clothes (top and bottom) to t-shirt/long sleeve T and shorts, wind pants, or sweats.

For those students who don’t change, it is not only unpleasant for themselves and the people around them, but it also poses health risks such as athletes foot, jock itch, and leaves the door open for various forms of bacterial infections. Also, sneakers play a vital role in preventing foot and ankle injuries during activity, and protects the gym floor from damage.

Not being prepared not only affects your health and hygiene, but it also affects your grade. Failure to come prepared to class earns you a zero for the day, and those zeros add up quickly. PE is a graduation requirement and it shouldn’t be difficult to come prepared to class, just like bringing your books to science, bringing your calculator to math, or bringing your equipment to work on time for a job. Being prepared is a necessary life skill that will benefit you not only now during completion of graduation requirements, but as you enter the working world as well.

To those students who are prepared daily, we thank you and appreciate your efforts!

~The EFHS P.E. Department.