Notes For Parents
Parents should be aware of precautionary medical conditions. If your child has been seen by a doctor or has been injured, a note is required to resume or participate in gym class. Your attention to this matter is greatly appreciated.
Goals for the Year
Fitness is an important part of all gym programs. We at Family Foundations Academy are striving to improve overall physical fitness test scores. This will ultemately improve muscular endurance and cardiovascular conditioning levels. We are also conscious of obesity in pre-adolescent years, and recommend exercise recipes for students at risk. We are currently training our track and field team to improve running performances to have our athletes place at meets.
About the Teacher
Mr. Santi Ceccotti comes to Family Foundations Academy with veteran experience of thirty six years.His carreer has exposed him to physical education, adaptive physical education, recreation and health. He is currently certified in physical education, adaptive physical education and health. He also has coached for the past twenty two years in wheelchair track and field and basketball. He is presently the track and field coach at Family Foundations Academy.
Contact the Teacher
For questions feel free to contact Mr. Santi Ceccotti at sceccotti@ffa.k12.de.us. Or at the school at 302-324 8901 ext. 247.
Specials Schedule
Gym instruction is Monday through Thrusday for grades first through fifth. RTI( response to intervention) remedial instruction is scheduled on Fridays for all five grades.
Class News
The gym program offers a wide variety of activities geared to various age groups. We offer meaningful life time sports for the upper grades such as; basketball, indoor baseball, activity circuts, fitness circuts, ultimate frisbee, volleyball, jump rope and double dutch and tennis. We also perform pre and post physical fitness testing. The test battery( push up, sit up, sit and reach, back stretch and pacer test) evaluates students on general physical fitness according to age and body size. The lower grades are exposed to challenging low organized games and movement exploration activities. We are currently preparing for our track and field Spring season. Our young athletes will compete in a series of track meets in May and June. We will also sponsor a field trip to the Penn Relays in April.
Classroom Rules and Expectations
All students are to follow the gym uniform policy. Students are to wear a logo polo or tee shirt top and a logo sweat pants or shorts. Failure to wear proper attire will result in inability to participate in class. Among the various gym rules, the following are woth noting; ALWAYS DO YOUR BEST. RESPECT EVERYONE. NO CURSING OR BAD LANGUAGE. DONT RUN INTO ANYONE_ BE SAFE. Mr. Santis signals; one hand and arm up and or whistle- stop what you are doing and look at Mr. Santi. TWO STRIKE RULE; if you are spoken to after two warnings, there will be points deducted and class consequences. Homework is issued every other week and it is required for total point accumulation.
Homework
Please see class rules and expectations.