The Health and Wellness Education program is designed to help students acquire and apply the knowledge, skills, processes and confidence needed to adopt and maintain a healthy lifestyle and select healthy and safe behaviors.  Virginia requires all students to receive health and physical education instruction at all instructional levels in grades K-10.  The program consists of health education, physical education, family life education, and driver education (10th grade).  

 

Hampton City Schools provides a comprehensive health and physical education program envisions the following:

• A well-articulated K-10 comprehensive physical education and health program that prepares all students to actively and effectively achieve and promote lifelong wellness.

• A continuous sequence of learning, firmly rooted in both public health and educational research and effective practice.

• An instructional sequence that provides all students multiple opportunities to use the acquired knowledge and skills in meaningful, authentic, and realistic ways.

• A school community that recognizes and fosters the intrinsic value of wellness.
  

Elementary School

Students in elementary grades receive instruction once per week for 45 minutes.  Health concepts are blended into physical education instruction. 

Middle School

Students in middle school receive instruction every other day for 90 minutes.  Students alternate units of health and physical education.

High School

Students in high school receive instruction every other day for 90 minutes.  Students in high school receive instruction by semester:

• Fall Semester

• Physical Education I - 9th graders

• Health & Driver Education II - 10th graders

• Spring Semester

• Health I - 9th graders

• Physical Education II - 10th graders

 

 

Hampton City Schools Physical Education program follows the 2022 Physical Education Standards of Learning.  Physical education provides students with the knowledge, processes, and skills to become physically educated, physically fit and responsible in their physical activity choices and behaviors for a lifetime. Virginia's standards for physical education are grouped into five strands: skilled movement, movement principles and concepts, personal fitness, responsible behaviors and physically active lifestyle. The standards in each strand are sequenced to progress in complexity from grade level to grade level.

Physical Education Standards of Learning

Hampton City Schools health education follows the 2020 Health Education Standards of learning.  In health education, students will learn essential health concepts, develop understanding of health information in order to make healthy decisions, and actively advocate for their own health, as well as the health of their peers, families, and communities.
Health Education Standards of Learning

Program Overview

 

The FLE program for students is taught by health and physical education teachers. Students in elementary grades K-3 focus on family, safety, and in 4th and 5th, puberty.  In grades 6-10, students are taught that abstinence from sexual activity is the only way to guarantee the prevention of pregnancy and sexually transmitted infections. The family life education unit includes instruction on anatomy, abuse, internet predation, and healthy dating relationships.

 

Program Summary by Grade Level

Family Life Education - Parent Letters - Sensitive Topics