If you don't take care of your body, then where will you live?   

                                                                                                                                         - Unknown 

At TFA, all Physical Education classes are designed for the appropriate age range and include the goals of sportsmanship and adopting a healthy lifestyle.

Elementary Physical Education

Grades 1-3: This course is designed to give students the opportunity to learn through a comprehensive sequentially planned Physical Education program in accordance with the North Carolina Healthful Living Curriculum. The emphasis is on how students react and respond to others and perform well-defined combinations of movements. Students continue to learn to develop patterns and combinations of movements using locomotors and non-locomotor skills. Students will learn to manipulate objects with a partner (throwing, catching, striking, and kicking). Students will learn to analyze their performance in order to learn or improve movement skills. Students will be introduced to fitness concepts and will participate in a variety of fitness development exercises. Students will learn playground rules related to the use of equipment, safety, and games. Units of instruction include social skills, fitness, movement education, manipulatives, and modified team activities.

Grades 4-5: This course is designed to give students the opportunity to learn through a comprehensive sequentially planned Physical Education program in accordance with the North Carolina Healthful Living Curriculum. The emphasis is on manipulating objects with accuracy and speed. Students will continue to learn the correct techniques for using manipulatives including throwing, catching, striking, kicking, trapping, and dribbling. Students will learn to analyze their performances in order to learn or improve a movement skill. Students will continue to learn fitness concepts, participate in a variety of fitness development exercises, assess their personal fitness, compare their scores to a health related standard, and set goals for improvement or maintenance. Working in small groups, students will learn to accept personal differences (maturity levels, physical differences, physical abilities, cultures, and gender differences). Units of instruction include playground rules and games; fitness pre-and post-testing; jump rope; throwing, rolling, and catching; striking with implements; striking with feet; and invasion, net, and other games.

Middle School Physical Education and Health

This course provides students the continuing opportunity to learn through a developmentally appropriate, comprehensive sequentially planned physical education program aligned with the North Carolina Healthful Living Curriculum. The focus of this course is the application of movement skills and knowledge (including defensive and offensive strategies) to team physical activities; the assessment and maintenance of physical fitness to improve health and performance; the requisite knowledge of physical fitness concepts, principles and strategies to improve health and performance; and the understanding and demonstration of self-responsibility, positive social interaction, and group dynamics in the learning and performance of physical activity. Units of activity include: physical fitness (activities, assessment, concepts, development and maintenance); cooperative activities; movement skills and strategies applied in modified games of: flag football; soccer; lacrosse; volleyball; basketball; floor hockey; ultimate Frisbee; and several net games. Units of health instruction include: Fitness and Wellness for All; Learning Self-Management Skills; Lifestyle Physical Activity and Positive Attitudes; Components of Health Related Fitness; Choosing Nutritious Foods; Making Consumer Choices; Stress Management; and Substance Abuse.

High School Physical Education and Health

This course is designed to give students the opportunity to learn through a comprehensive sequentially planned Physical Education program in accordance with the North Carolina Healthful Living Curriculum. Students will be empowered to make choices, meet challenges, and develop positive behaviors in fitness, wellness and movement activity for a lifetime.  Units of physical education instruction include: personal fitness concepts and techniques, cardiorespiratory endurance training, and team activities. Units of health instruction include: Health and Wellness; Exercise Prescription; Body Systems; Nutrition; and Substance Abuse.

High School Fitness/Conditioning

This course is designed to give students the opportunity to learn fitness concepts and conditioning techniques used for obtaining optimal physical fitness. Students will benefit form comprehensive weight training and cardiorespiratory endurance activities. Students will learn the basic fundamentals of strength training, aerobic training, and overall fitness training and conditioning. Students will be empowered to make wise choices, meet challenges, and develop positive behaviors in fitness, wellness, and movement activity for a lifetime.