Physical Education Benefits are Broad & Powerful!
Physical education prepares children to be physically and mentally active, fit and healthy...for life. Here are some of the many benefits children receive from a quality PE program offered at Ramirez Intermediate School:
- Improved physical fitness
- Skill and motor skills development
- P.E. provides regular, healthful physical activity
- Teaches self discipline
- Facilitates development of student responsibility for health and fitness
- Influence moral development
The goal of the physical education department at ARIS is for:
- Students to understand the importance of physical fitness and a healthy lifestyle.
- Students to demonstrate physical activity through various fitness activities, various sports, and personal enrichment activities over the course of the year.
- Students to demonstrate literacy through various written and oral assessments on the five components of physical fitness (principles of training, heart rate, nutrition, fitnessgram standards and other health topics).
- To be competent in movement, knowledge of movement, self-image, personal development and social development.
Our scholar athletes will cover: sports, Five Components of Fitness, Heart Rate, Exercise Principles, Perfect Form for Running, Exposure to weight room and other modern PE facilities. PE is required for all 7th and 8th grade students at ARIS.
The ARIS team and CNUSD offer intermediate intermural sports depending on season. For more information, please contact the office.