Steve Gregory’s “SG Squad”
Wellness Program at Sunset Elementary

Mission :

To provide a non-discriminating, fun, and safe environment where children are motivated to exercise, build relationships, learn nutritional and healthful information and strategies to live healthy lifestyles. Children in SG Fit Squad are encouraged to include daily exercise and good nutrition to help increase proper growth and development. To increase community involvement, build relationships, and increase team building/ life skills.

Vision:

SG Fit Squad provides specialized youth fitness training, nutrition education, and a healthy weight control program (age appropriate) that enables children to overcome health problems, develop active and positive lifestyles, raise self-esteem, and improve attendance and academic achievement.

Participants:

All students will be invited to participate in SG Fit Squad.

Students from Mr. Garcia's and Mr. Direen's class (grades 5 and 6) will serve as mentors and acquire leadership skills that will transfer throughout the school. The 6 th graders will be able to apply their leadership skills when they attend middle school. The 5 th graders will be able to train the 4 th graders as mentors in the following school year. SG Fit Squad will be a consistent and continual program at our school (in order to obtain measurable results and data). All students and activities will take place under the supervision of certificated and classified Staff and with the support of our school principal.

Students' Responsibilities:

Participants are required to show good behavior and citizenship, obtain good attendance, strive for and maintain good academic achievement, and serve as role models/mentors on campus.

SG Fit Squad Structure:

The basis of the session: Monday-Friday Mornings (30-45 minutes daily)

• Warm-up activity - Walk around the field/black top/field
• Cool down
• Measuring fluids during a.m. exercise
• Eating a nutritional breakfast
• Information about leading a healthy lifestyle
  (food and drink, activeness, hygiene…etc.)

SG Fit Squad Expected Outcomes:

• Increase confidence and self- esteem
• Increase flexibility, strength, and endurance
• Decrease body fat
• Increase students' cognitive abilities and brain activity
• Improve grades, test scores, and focus
• Increase attendance
• Build teamwork and promote citizenship
• Prevent sport related injuries
• Increase wellness & safety.
• Provide a safe and fun place for students to spend before and/or after school at NO COST

Accountability:

All Students will monitor their physical fitness activities on a monthly basis.

This will help prepare all 5 th grade students who will take the PFT between March 2 nd and March 27 th .

Why does California have a Physical Fitness Test?

The California Physical Fitness Test (PFT) provides information that can be used by students to assess and plan personal fitness programs; by teachers to design the curriculum for physical education programs; and by parents and guardians to understand their children's fitness levels. This program also provides results that are used to monitor changes in the physical fitness of California students. By law ( California Education Code Section 60800), all school districts in California are required to administer the PFT annually to all students in grades five, seven, and nine.

What is the PFT?

The State Board of Education (SBE) designated the FITNESSGRAM® as the PFT for students in California public schools. The FITNESSGRAM® is a comprehensive, health-related physical fitness battery developed by The Cooper Institute. The primary goal of the FITNESSGRAM® is to assist students in establishing lifetime habits of regular physical activity.

What are the fitness areas tested? What test options are available for each fitness area?

The FITNESSGRAM® is composed of the following six fitness areas, with a number of test-options provided for most areas:

Transferring SG Fit Squad to the After School Program:

We will implement SG Fit Squad in the before school program but it is our hope to include the program after school, as well. Many of the student who are in the before school program will also be in the after school program. They will be encouraged to teach what they learned in SG Fit Squad to their peers. This will encourage teamwork and responsibility among their peers.

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Steve Gregory's Wellness Program at Sunset Elementary

Steve Gregory's Wellness Program at Sunset Elementary - Oct. 7, 2008