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Physical Education, School
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Physical Education
The physical education program includes classroom instruction, intramural activities and inter-school activities.
All students are required to participate
to the best of their ability during classroom instruction. Students
in the intermediate
grades (4, 5, 6) are required to wear shorts or sweatpants, T-shirt or sweatshirt and
non-marking running shoes. Students in the primary grades are required to wear running
shoes.
Physical education classes have elements of physical fitness awareness and improvement, skill development, cooperation, socialization and a feeling of well-being. Various levels of these elements can be accomplished through a variety of activities such as dance, games, small group gymnastics, circuits, etc. Specific rules of play are stressed to ensure safety.
School Library
Carapthia School Library is staffed by a teacher-librarian, Jackie Wright and library clerk, Peggy Ansons, with the assistance of parent volunteers. The library itself is a large cheerful room that lends itself to group projects, literature circles and professional meetings. The library is automated and three computer workstations, networked to the computer lab and connected to the Internet, are available for library searches and research. The library skills program focuses on information literacy and literary and cultural appreciation.
Information Literacy
The teacher-librarian collaborates with the classroom teachers to implement Literacy with Information and Communication Technology Across the Curriculum. In particular, this involves the two Big Ideas in the Cognitive Domain: Plan and Question and Gather and Make Sense. In the Affective Domain the Big Ideas of Responsibility and Ethics and Collaboration will be taught in library skills programming. As students mature in their ability to think, they will analyze, evaluate and synthesize the information that they have located in accurate, authoritative print, non-print and electronic sources. Students will then present their information orally, visually, concretely, or electronically.
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Last updated:
April 22, 2008