Welcome to PPL10!

Hi PPL students:

Welcome to high school! Hope you have enjoyed your first day of high school today and that you are looking forward to learning this semester!

We had a brief tour of the South Gym and like our vice principal, Janice Drake mentioned, you have the honour to be the first class in a long time to have class in South Gym. We will definitely miss North Gym but hey, we will make many more fun chapters in South Gym. You all are on the first page of South Gym's first chapter :)

We did not do much today since we started our class in the middle of the period after our assembly. We talked about how limited access we have to equipment room and other rooms in South Gym because we just moved into South Gym yesterday. Many things need to be unpacked and many places needed to be fixed and cleaned up. I've asked that you all please bear with the process and you all nodded with understanding :) Thank you!

We discussed where we will be heading to during a lockdown and a fire drill. Do you remember where? :) Review with me if you need to in the next class.

We discussed a few rules today.

The number one rule is: RESPECT (respect yourself, respect others and respect the property). If you show respect for all, we will have more fun activities come our way. If there is one sign of disrespect, there will be a discussion for sure and possibly a consequence.

Expectations:

1) Wear appropriate clothes with proper footwear everyday (and bathing suit for a swim class weekly). We do not know yet which day of the week we will be swimming. You will be notified as soon as we find out.

2) Every gym class, you enter on your own and jog 5 laps around the basketball court and do neck to ankle stretches. (Different stretches will be demonstrated by teacher on day one of warm-up; pictures of stretches will be shared as well.) Please remember to jog, not run fast. The goal of the warm-up is to warm your body up a little and bring your heart to beating. The goal is not to tire you out already. We have a full class ahead after the warm up period!

Outlook: We talked about what lessons we will be covering this semester (Fitness, Aquatics, Basketball, Volleyball, Flag Football, Indoor Soccer, Outdoor Soccer, Teambuilding activities and Health Units). A possible field trip would be a horseback riding and hopefully disc golf in Chicopee. Letter to parents along with the course profile will be distributed.

Next class discussion/activity:

1) Discussion Topic: "Safety"
2) Course Profile
3) Intramural Activity

See you in next class!