ECC Physical Education Curriculum

Program Philosophy

The Physical Education program at St. Paul’s will provide a positive, safe and enjoyable environment that engages each child to be actively involved and equally successful through physical movement. The goal of the ECC Physical Education program is to help students develop and refine motor skills and movement patterns needed to perform a variety of physical activities, and through practice, promote the benefits of health, enjoyment, challenge, self-expression, and/or social interaction through movement.

Essential Skills by Grade Level

Toddler/Preschool

In Toddler and Preschool Physical Education, students will begin to develop body and spatial awareness. Through exploration and basic instruction, they will begin to develop body movement skills such as running, jumping, catching, throwing, and kicking. They will be introduced to balance and control skills of body and equipment. They will be introduced to and begin to develop cooperation skills with peers.

Prekindergarten 

In Prekindergarten Physical Education, students will demonstrate growth in body and spatial awareness. Students will be introduced and begin to develop growth in body movement skills such as skipping, galloping, and hopping. Students will show continued growth in skills such as running, jumping, catching, throwing and kicking. Students will demonstrate growth in balance and control skills of body and equipment. They will demonstrate growth in cooperation skills with peers.

Kindergarten

In Kindergarten, students begin to master locomotor (skipping, galloping, gliding, leaping) and non‐locomotor (balancing, twisting, bending, stretching) skills and concepts and show growth in these skills. Students begin to show growth in eye-hand coordination skills (catching, throwing). Spatial awareness is also presented. Students are introduced to basic physical changes that occur as a result of physical activity. In addition, students learn to follow directions and interact positively with classmates, regardless of personal differences in a physical setting.