Physical Education and Health
Staff
- Patricia O'Reilly - Content Specialist
- Michelle Cassels
- James Castonguay
- Matthew Slatkin
- Barbara Stroud
- Glenn Young
Mission
Tilden's Physical Education department believes that through cooperation among students, parents, and teachers, we can help students to develop:
- an ongoing fitness life-style
- a variety of sports/movement skills
- effective leadership and followership skills
- improved safety skills
- appropriate sportsmanship skills
- positive socialization skills
- critical thinking skills
Presidential Physical Fitness Award
Participants must at least reach these levels in all 5 events in order to qualify for the Presidential Physical Fitness Award. These levels represent the 85th percentile based on the 1985 School Population Fitness Survey. To see qualifying standards go to the following website and select "85th percentile":
President's Challenge Fitness Qualifying Standards
Exercise and Brain Power
Want better grades and SAT scores? Listen to your PE teacher!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
According to the March 26, 2007 issue in Newsweek, exercise has now been scientifically linked to increased intelligence. One study shows that an aerobic workout regimen will actually grow new nerve cells in the brain. This was once thought to be impossible. Another study shows that an increase in aerobic exercise also “staves off the beginning of Alzheimer disease and other cognitive disorders”. Although these are thought of as “old people diseases,” research also says that “exercise has the ability to increase brain potential and has a more lasting effect on brains that are still developing” This includes Tilden students’ brains!
Due to all the new studies linking exercise and brain power, some states are now making a minimum of a half hour of PE every day mandatory in every school district for grades K-8. It has become a state law in some areas. I guess Maryland is a little slow in reading the new data?
10 Fitness Tips
- Start your day with breakfast.
- Get Moving!
- Snack Smart.
- Work up a sweat
- Balance your food choices-don’t eat too much of any one food.
- Get fit with friends or family.
- Eat more grains, fruits and vegetables.
- Join in physical activities at school.
- Foods aren’t good or bad. Remember to use moderation.
- Make healthy eating and physical activities fun!
Required PE Uniforms
Tilden Physical Education will have uniforms this year. The uniform will consist of two pieces:
- Gray T-shirt with "Tilden Physical Education" and a place for your name
- Blue Shorts with "Tilden Physical Education" and a place for your name
The shorts will be:
At this time, we don't have any other parts to the official Tilden uniform. The cost of the uniform is $14.00 for both pieces. If you buy the pieces separately, the costs are:
- $8.50 for the nylon mesh shorts
- $5.50 for the T-shirt
Please bring the properly filled out order form, along with a check made payable to Tilden Middle School, in the correct amount for the uniform(s) that you want with you on the second day of school. Order Form
In colder weather, you should wear sweats of your choice. We will be selling a limited quantity of Tilden sweatpants for $20, and Tilden sweatshirts for $25, for any student who wishes to purchase them for cool weather. Order Form
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