PE/Health
2026-2027
The Upper School physical education curriculum emphasizes a diverse offering of fitness, lifetime, and team sport activities. By promoting healthy lifestyles through planned, regular exercise, students obtain the skills and knowledge to continue their physical activity in the years ahead.
The goal of health and wellness instruction at Cary Academy is to promote health and wellness literacy. Using traditional classroom resources as well as the Internet and appropriate software, each student develops the ability to obtain, interpret, and understand basic health information and services. The program provides the necessary foundation to enable students to make sound decisions regarding their physical and emotional well-being.
| wdt_ID | wdt_created_by | wdt_created_at | wdt_last_edited_by | wdt_last_edited_at | Sort Order | Course Name | Grade Levels | Description | Prereqs/Coreqs | Term | # of Days/week | Credits | ADV designation |
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| 1 | donna_eason | 17/02/2026 01:21 AM | donna_eason | 17/02/2026 01:21 AM | 1 | Health and Wellness | 9 | The goal of the course is to promote health literacy. Topics may include, stress, time management, healthy relationships, tobacco, vaping, drugs, anxiety, emotions, depression, suicide and first aid. Using traditional classroom resources, as well as the Internet and appropriate software, each student develops the ability to obtain, interpret, and understand basic health information and services. The vast array of health resources in the community serves as a helpful adjunct to the course. The program provides the necessary foundation to enable students to make sound decisions regarding their physical and emotional well-being. The physical education curriculum emphasizes a diverse offering of fitness, lifetime, and team sport activities. By promoting healthy lifestyles through planned, regular exercise, students obtain the skills and knowledge to continue their physical activity in the years ahead. Activities may include racquets sports, strength training, power walking, meditation & relaxation, team games, and lifetime activities. | None | Year | 1 | 0.50 | N/A |
| 2 | donna_eason | 17/02/2026 01:21 AM | donna_eason | 17/02/2026 01:21 AM | 2 | Strength & Fitness | 10, Flex, 11, 12 | This course focuses on cardiorespiratory and fitness training. Using all equipment available in the weight room, students will have an opportunity to improve general endurance of the respiratory and circulatory system, reduce or maintain body fat levels, and understand how to calculate maximum and target heart rates. In addition, focus will be placed on building muscle strength, core strength, and foot agility using correct body posture and safe workout principles. | None | S1 | 1 | 0.25 | N/A |
| 3 | donna_eason | 17/02/2026 01:21 AM | donna_eason | 17/02/2026 01:21 AM | 3 | Strength & Fitness | 10, Flex, 11, 12 | This course focuses on cardiorespiratory and fitness training. Using all equipment available in the weight room, students will have an opportunity to improve general endurance of the respiratory and circulatory system, reduce or maintain body fat levels, and understand how to calculate maximum and target heart rates. In addition, focus will be placed on building muscle strength, core strength, and foot agility using correct body posture and safe workout principles. | None | S2 | 1 | 0.25 | N/A |
| 4 | donna_eason | 17/02/2026 01:21 AM | donna_eason | 17/02/2026 01:21 AM | 4 | Sports Medicine I | Flex, 11, 12 | Sports Medicine I is designed to expose students to the many career paths within the realm of sports medicine, as well as increase their knowledge in some of the fundamental principles of orthopedic healthcare. Students will be taught basic skills associated with emergency care, taping and bracing, orthopedic injury evaluation techniques, injury treatment methods (for both acute and chronic injuries) and foundational principles associated with physical rehabilitation, strength, and conditioning. | None | S1 | 1 | 0.25 | N/A |
| 5 | donna_eason | 17/02/2026 01:21 AM | donna_eason | 17/02/2026 01:21 AM | 5 | Sports Medicine II | Flex, 11, 12 | Sports Medicine II is designed to dive deeper into sports medicine concepts, including topics such as: advanced emergency care, concussion and cervical spine injury management, continued musculoskeletal anatomy, advanced rehabilitation and return to play exercise prescription. This course will be divided into both didactic classroom instruction as well as hands-on lab practice. Students will be provided opportunities to assist both our Head and Assistant Athletic Trainers in clinic or on the sidelines during athletic contests throughout the Spring and remainder of the Winter athletics season (these opportunities are completely voluntary; not mandatory for class credit). | Sports Medicine I | S2 | 1 | 0.25 | N/A |
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