Fitness is an important component of our P.E. program for grades 1-5. Students experience setting performance goals while participating in activities that improve their strength, flexibility, and endurance.

Proficiency in swimming and water safety is an expected outcome in Lower School P.E., grades 1-5. Children who complete the first three levels of the American Red Cross Swimming and Water Safety Program are then exposed to advanced strokes, endurance swimming, and pool games, such as water polo. Fifth graders take the American Red Cross Guardstart program. Traditionally, twelve weeks per year are spent on swimming skills.

During the other months, children practice locomotor and manipulative skills. Sports skills such as throwing, catching, kicking, striking, dodging, and tagging, introduced in kindergarten, are refined in the upper elementary grades. Qualities of sportsmanship, respect, perseverance, and cooperation are woven into each physical education class.