Health and Physical Education

Prince William County Public Schools provides a Comprehensive Physical Education Curriculum, to include Health Education and Driver Education, which visualizes:

A K–12 comprehensive physical education program that prepares all students to actively and adequately achieve and promote lifelong wellness on a daily basis.
A continuous sequence of learning embedded in schools, community, and family.
An instructional progression that provides all students varied opportunities to use the acquired knowledge and skills in meaningful, genuine, and realistic ways.
A school community that recognizes and promotes the fundamental value of wellness.

Student wellness involves the acquisition and maintenance of moderate to high levels of physical, cognitive, emotional, and social fitness.

Physical education provides the opportunity for the acquisition and application of essential knowledge and skills in the following:
Motor Skill Development
Anatomical Basis of Movement
Fitness Planning
Social Development
Energy Balance

Health education provides the knowledge base and critical thinking skills necessary for students to make informed choices and to exert positive control over their lives. The health content includes the following:
Substance Abuse Prevention, Opioids and Safe Use Medication
Body Systems
Community Involvement
Healthy Environment
Health Promotion including Nutrition and Physical Activity
Safety and Injury Prevention (CPR and First Aid - 9th Grade)
Social/Emotional/Mental Health
Violence Prevention and Healthy Relationships
Health Careers (10^th Grade)
Family Life Education in grades 6-10

Driver education is an effective and successful program in Prince William County Public Schools, offering our students learning experiences in classroom and laboratory environments. The classroom instruction requirement of 36 hours is provided to all students regardless of age in HPE II which is taken most often during the 10th grade year. The focus of instruction is on providing teens the skills necessary for the responsibility of driving in our communities.

We offer Road Instruction of 14 hours, meeting the requirements to license our teenage drivers. We currently offer this program during Summer School and as an after-school program at all high schools. PWCS meets the Driver Education law that requires a mandatory 90-minute Parent/Student Driver education presentation that coincides with the student’s classroom instruction. This presentation is mandatory for all classroom driver education students and their parents prior to the receipt of the student's DEC-District 8 card that permits the student to take the final Road Instruction.

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Vision Statement

Students will participate in an engaging and dynamic health and physical education program of excellence to support a World-Class Education in becoming health-literate and physically-literate individuals.

Mission Statement

Students will be exposed to a variety of foundational movement skills, and personal fitness, nutrition and wellness activities.
Students will gain knowledge in essential health concepts, healthy decisions, advocacy and health promotion.
Students will acquire the knowledge, processes, and skills to become physically educated, physically fit, and responsible students in their physical activity choices and behaviors for a lifetime.