Physical Education
 

Physical education is a vital and purposeful part of the total educational program, which provides for the optimum physical, intellectual, social and emotional development of each student. The goal of physical education is to provide a relevant program that stresses developing physical and motor fitness, fundamental motor skills, skills for participation in sports, games, and in leisure time pursuits, and of developing and practicing principles of lifetime/sportsmanship and etiquette.

At Mills Lawn the emphasis on cooperative and integrated learning also has it’s place in Physical Education. Lessons in dance are coordinated with classroom learning or with other specialist areas such as music. Students learn to work cooperatively with each other when creating and performing jump rope routines. The third and fourth grades learn about bike safety and bike path etiquette from a local expert, and then put all into practice with a 3-mile bike ride from school and down the bike path.