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Coach Figaro
We begin each day with daily exercises to help us stay fit then progress on to our unit lessons – we
have experienced physical fitness testing, basketball activities, volleyball-baseball, volleyball-tennis,
tennis-baseball, tennis and archery. We will go into various other sports, including such activities as
badminton, bowling, softball and gymnastics. We will even learn how to play ultimate Frisbee!
Basic Middle School Physical Education policies include the following:
1. All gym clothes go home on Fridays to be washed and brought back clean on Mondays.
2. Dressing out properly includes the Herndon gym shirt, shorts, white socks, and tennis shoes. Any
variation will result in points being deducted from the grade. Everyone is required to dress out
properly every day.
3. Now that colder weather is upon us, the students may wear sweat pants, jogging pants, or wind suit
pants instead of their shorts for their physical education classes. These pants may be any color, but
may not be cargo pants or have anything written across the backside. The students are still required to
have their shorts in their lockers just in case they forget their pants!
4. Anyone who is not participating should have a doctor’s excuse on file with their teacher. If a child
does not feel well and asks to sit out for the day, usually, the request is granted. If a child is
“continually” sick for an activity during class and/or is playing at lunch, the request may be denied.
5. If a doctor’s excuse is used to have a child sit out of his/her physical education class, please have
the doctor put an ending date on the excuse – “Johnny is excused from physical activity for 2 weeks,
beginning Oct. 21, 2007”, or “Johnny cannot participate in physical education until January 25, 2008”,
etc. This will save you a trip back to the doctor to get your child BACK IN physical education class.
Please encourage your children to leave valuables at home! Sometimes the children bring large
amounts of cash or “birthday jewelry”, etc., to school to show it off and it disappears. All middle school
students have been issued a locker and lock in the locker rooms and have been instructed not to give
their combinations out to anyone. However, the locks are not always locked behind them, they give
their combinations out anyway, others look over their shoulders and get their combinations, or they
leave their things lying around the locker room or gym. Your children have been cautioned about all of
this, but some still leave things out or unlocked. Please help us help your children by reinforcing these
actions to safe-guard their belongings!
Mrs. Wilson