SAN JUAN HILLS HIGH

Physical Education Activities course is designed to provide students with the knowledge and skills necessary to develop and maintain an active lifestyle throughout their lifetime.  Students will learn how they can achieve a high level of physical fitness by understanding key concepts of health-related fitness and skills-related fitness.  Health-related fitness concepts such as cardio respiratory endurance, muscular strength, and flexibility will be integrated with skills-related concepts such as agility, coordination, balance, and speed.  Understanding and developing these skills will provide students with the knowledge base and confidence to participate in a wide-range of individual sports, team sports, outdoor activities, and recreational activities.

Strength exercise class is offered as an elective physical education class for boys girls. The course includes instruction about the correct techniques of power lifting, Olympic lifting and body building. Flexibility, core and plyometrics as well as cardiovascular training will also be included in this very popular district wide class.   Whatever a weak muscle can do, a stronger, more powerful, more flexible muscle can do better!

Yoga is a 5,000 year old practice that improves strength, flexibility, and balance. In this course, students will learn more than 100 yoga poses and will practice them in a fluid, vinyasa style class which builds heat and strength in the body. Students will also learn about yoga’s health benefits, history, and philosophy. This year long course may be repeated for either PE or elective credit. Please email Mr. MacDonald or Mr. LeVier for more information.

Badminton is a sport in which light rackets are used to volley an object called a shuttlecock, shuttle, birdie, or bird back and forth over a high net. Unlike other similar sports, such as tennis, badminton is not played with a ball—the shuttlecock is a kind of feathered cone with a cork head. This year -long course may be repeated for either PE or elective credit. All levels from beginner to advanced are welcome. This course is an intense physical education class focusing on the components of total fitness:  Muscle Strength, Muscle Endurance, Flexibility, and Body Composition. The goal of this P.E. course is to help the student establish life-long healthy fitness and nutritional habits/goals through proper exercise and nutritional planning.  Please contact Mr. Jeung for more information.

Soccer is a sport played by two teams of eleven players with a round ball that may not be touched with the hands or arms during play except by the goalkeepers. The object of the game is to score goals by kicking or heading the ball into the opponents' goal. This year -long course may be repeated for either PE or elective credit. All levels from beginner to advanced are welcome. This course is an intense physical education class focusing on the components of total fitness:  Muscle Strength, Muscle Endurance, Flexibility, and Body Composition. The goal of this P.E. course is to help the student establish life-long healthy fitness and nutritional habits/goals through proper exercise and nutritional planning.    Please contact Mr. Jeung for more information.

Power walking is an intense and strenuous class involving advanced walking techniques and hiking.  The beautiful off-campus trails around school are utilized and classes may cover up to 4 plus miles a class period. This year -long course may be repeated for either PE or elective credit. All levels of walkers from beginner to advanced are welcome. This course is an intense physical education class focusing on the components of total fitness:  Muscle Strength, Muscle Endurance, Flexibility, and Body Composition. The goal of this P.E. course is to help the student establish life-long healthy fitness and nutritional habits/goals through proper exercise and nutritional planning.  Please contact Mr. Jeung for more information.