PE and Health

Mustard Seed School encourages children to develop coordination and physical fitness within the structure of cooperative games and competitive sports.

A physical education teacher leads each class in formal gym time each week.  Children use the city park across the street for outdoor activities every day, weather permitting.   Students have the opportunity for free play or teacher-led organized games during noon recess. 

In the Lower School, the program emphasizes cooperative games as well as developing motor skills like skipping, hopping, catching and pitching.  

Upper School Physical Education

In the Upper School, the program continues to develop motor skills.  It also explores movement, strategy, rules, safety and sportsmanship through a variety of team sports and physical activities. Students are assessed on their participation, teamwork, cooperation/sportsmanship, skill development, and preparation. Participation is assessed every class along with preparation.  Teamwork, cooperation/sportsmanship, and skill development are assessed for every sport and activity that is learned.

Basketball

Depending on grade level, health education is taught by individual classroom teachers, the physical education teacher and/or the school nurse.  In the course of three years of health education (through grades six to eight), students cover a number of topics in developmentally appropriate ways: