Vashon Island School District

Health and Fitness

Goal

Thriving Students: Every student will feel safe, supported, and engaged as learners; empowered to use their voice to advocate for equitable treatment and social justice; and grow as informed global citizens.

- General health topics are covered in each grade level with a very specific curriculum set at the 5th grade level. Physical Education is a specialist block, so each class has at least one PE block per week for approximately 50 minutes. Additionally, each grade level has a schedule of unstructured recess times each day (approximately 30 to 40 minutes total depending on the grade level).
- SPARK (PE curriculum for grades K through 5)
- Rights, Respect, Responsibility (4th and 5th Grade sexual health curriculum)
- Health and Fitness is a interdisciplinary one-semester course at each grade level.
- Get Real (6-8)
- Physical Education electives offered to students in all grades.
- Health is a one-semester, required course offered in 9th grade.
- HealthSmart

- Amaze.org (video resources for a variety of sexual health topics)
- Center for Disease Control Parent Information (wide range of health and fitness topics)
- Center for Latino Adolescent and Family Health (recursos para los padres)
- Get Real Information (information about the middle school sexual health curriculum)
- Marijuana and E-Cigarettes: Facts teens can use to make healthy choices
- Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction: Health and Physical Education
- Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction: HIV and Sexual Health Education
- Planned Parenthood: Teaching Your Children about Sexual Health, Videos for Parents
- Positive Parenting
- The DOVE Project (Dignity, Opportunity, Voice and Empowerment: support for survivors of domestic violence)
- VARSA Vashon Alliance to Reduce Substance Abuse
- VYFS Vashon Youth and Family Services