Health and Physical Education

The Board of Education and the Baldwin Union Free School District believe that Physical Education is an important component of a student's overall educational process. The responsibility of the Physical Education program is to provide students with the opportunities to achieve development of skills, knowledge and attitude that will allow them to attain optimal quality of life and well-being. Activities should be provided which allow the individual students to meet their full potential while permitting choices related to their physical fitness and well-being. These same activities will allow the development of a positive attitude and desire to participate in lifetime fitness activities. 

"We teach because we hope to influence the present abilities of our students, but also their future behaviors and predispositions to continue to engage in a healthy lifestyle"

Starting at the elementary level, students engage in a number of units that focus on locomotive and manipulative skills while instilling good sportsmanship.

Students participate in districtwide Physical Education activities such as the Fitness Jamboree, Basketball Shootout, Unity Day, and Rotary Track. During these events, the younger students interact with high school students from the Athletes Helping Athletes Student Leadership Team. Students at the middle and high school are also offered numerous intramural activities to participate in after school. These intramural activities include basketball, fitness clubs, volleyball, the annual Blue and Gold Night at Baldwin Middle School as well as the 70-year tradition of Intramural Night and Sportsweek in which the blue and gold teams sing and dance to original choreography.