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Health & Physical Education

Welcome to Health Education...

Health Education builds students’ knowledge of physical, mental, emotional and social health.  It helps to motivate them to live a healthy lifestyle including improving and maintaining their Health, making healthy choices, preventing disease and reducing risky behavior.

“You can’t educate a student that isn’t healthy
and you can’t keep a student healthy that
isn’t 
educated” — Jocelyn Elders

The following are the current Health courses offered for students in Grades 7-12:

Welcome to Physical Education...

 

Through regular participation in physical education, the students realize the value of active involvement in our physical education program and they will receive instruction in sports and methods of maintaining fitness, which will have the potential to improve the quality of their adult life.

Other courses include:
  • Health Education (Grade 9) - REQUIRED
  • Heath Education - Personal Dynamics (Grade 11) - REQUIRED
  • Independent Study Physical Education
  • Medically Referred Physical Education
Additional information regarding courses posted in this section will be posted, when available. A brief overview of the above course(s) may be found in the Course Selection Manual for the individual school building, which may be accessed online at https://highschool.marsk12.org/apps/pages/index.jsp?uREC_ID=800048&type=d&pREC_ID=1189679