A regular class scheduled during the school day.
DISTRICT 27 • HEALTH & WELLNESS
Physical Education
Building confidence, healthy habits, and a lifelong love of movement.
Movement for lifelong learning
Physical education (PE) is a required academic subject that provides students with a planned, sequential, K-12 standards-based program which provides students an opportunity to become physically literate. Physical literacy is the ability to move with competence and confidence in a wide variety of physical activities in multiple environments that benefit the healthy development of the whole person.
It teaches participation in lifelong, health-enhancing physical activity. In PE, students learn to work with others, develop healthy personal fitness habits, and set goals now and throughout their lives. PE is not recess, or a before- or after-school sports club.
Physical Education in Action
What Physical Education Includes
Taught by a certified, licensed NYCPS teacher.
Instruction on a wide range of skills, not just sports .
Based on a written curriculum, with established learning standards (for more information, see the New York City K-5 Physical Education Scope and Sequence. and the New York City Grades 6-12 Physical Education Scope and Sequence.
