Year-End PE Wrap-Up

 What an amazing year we’ve had in Physical Education! From the first days of learning routines to our final games and activities, your children brought energy, curiosity, and joy to the gym (and outdoors!) every week.

Throughout the year, we explored a wide range of skills—from movement fundamentals and teamwork challenges to sports like badminton, soccer, and frisbee. We played creative games, practiced fair play, and learned how to move our bodies in fun and healthy ways. Watching the growth in confidence, coordination, and cooperation was truly rewarding.

Thank you for your continued support, and for helping your children come to PE ready to move and try their best. I hope everyone has an active and playful summer. See you in the fall!

— Mr. V

Below you will find my curriculum newsletter which highlights our learning this past term (February-June).


In Physical Education this term, students continued to participate in individual, partner, and team activities.  Emphasis has been on further developing skills while practicing movement, gameplay, and strategy involving different equipment and apparatus.  Games and activities this term have included the following:

  • Combatives

  • Cooperative Games

  • Jump Rope Skills

  • Gymnastics

  • Basketball Skills

  • Floor Hockey

  • Aquatics (grade 3 and 4 only)

  • Badminton and Paddle Games

  • Frisbee Skills

  • Compound, Field, and Playground Games

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