CLIFTON MIDDLE SCHOOL HEALTH & PHYSICAL EDUCATION
"BUILDING THE FOUNDATION FOR LIFETIME FITNESS"

HEALTH & PE NEWS

Do you like basketball. If so, make plans to get you team into the 1st annual CMS Classic 3 on 3 Basketball Tournament to be held February 17th after school in the CMS gym. Cost is only $9 per team and all proceed benefit the CMS Health & Physical Education Department. Team names and rosters are due to Mr. Isbell by February 15th.
Download a copy of the Health & PE study guide.

Please help CMS Health & PE build a climbing wall. We have recently kicked off our Buy a Rock to Build a Wall Campaign.

Thanks to everyone who has collected box tops this year. So far we have raised over $8000 since the beginning of this school. We are on a record setting pace.

Please send your Box Tops for Education box tops your student's homeroom. At the end of the year, the class with the most box tops will win breakfast and GatorShakes.

We would like to thank Mr. Walker & Tri-County Furniture, Mr. Simpson, Casey Walker, Conner Simpson, and Dakota Nicely for their help on Saturday March 8th moving our new fitness equipment. With the addition of this eleven piece strength and conditioning circuit, we will be able to greatly increase the number of students who have access to this activity on a daily basis. We would also like to thank the Alleghany Highlands YMCA for the opportunity to bid on the equipment.

Would you like to help "Build the Foundation of Lifetime Fitness"? There are many ways you can help. Make plans to visit or volunteer at our end of the year Field Day and School Picnic.


Click here for new Wellness Wednesday lesson plans.

We would like to thank the Wal-Mart Foundation for their generous gift of $2000 to our Health & Physical Education Department. These funds will be used to purchase more cardiovascular equipment for our weight room. Please support our local Wal-Mart.

Special thanks to the Virginia Department of Game & Inland Fisheries for allowing us to host a NASP Training class. Due to our participation in the class CMS will be receiving new archery equipment and our department now has three Certified Basic Archery Instructors.

The Seventh Grade completed their Walk Around the World on April 5th 2006. 

Sixth Grade completes the Live-It Program sponsored by Coca-Cola that encourages healthy eating and fitness in May of 2006.

Download a Daily Step Log!
 

CMS HEALTH & PHYSICAL EDUCATION- BUILDING THE FOUNDATION FOR LIFETIME FITNESS!



Our Mission
To provide each student with the knowledge necessary to develop and awareness of their fitness level, both mentally and physically, the resources to improve their fitness level, and the foundation to enable them to make healthy lifetime decisions. "To build the foundation for lifetime fitness."

“Of all subjects taught in school, Physical Education is the only subject which, by the very nature of its content, has the potential to affect how a person will feel every moment of every day for the rest of his or her life”…Allen Russell

Our Program
All students at Clifton Middle School are required to participate in daily Health & Physical Education. Class lengths vary from trimester, semester, or year, depending upon the exploratory tract the student has chosen. The average week consists of four days of Physical Education and one day of Health.

Our Goals:

Have each student become aware of his fitness level and learn ways to improve his overall fitness.

Have each student demonstrate a knowledge of the basic rules and skills pertaining to the activities and games introduced in class.

Provide each student with the knowledge necessary to make positive healthy lifetime choices.

Physical Education Schedule

Health Schedule:
 

Monday	Mr. Leitch
Tuesday	Mr. Nicely
Thursday	Mrs. Nicely
Friday	Mr. Isbell

 

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