Sixth-grade boys at Ocoee Middle School take up the challenge of the climbing wall in one of the school’s two gymnasiums Thursday. Girls were exercising in the other gym. The Kansas City based PE4LIFE visited several Bradley County schools on Thursday. Three schools, including Ocoee Middle, are part of the national PE4LIFE program.CLEVELAND, Tenn. – Representatives of a national organization that focuses on fitness, nutrition and a healthy life visited several Bradley County schools Thursday.
The Kansas City, Mo.-based PE4LIFE already is a partner with Bradley County Schools. The visit, however, may strengthen those ties.
“We promote quality physical education and activity within the schools,” said PE4LIFE’s Teresa Dilley. “We are looking for schools to be role models for other schools.
“We don’t have a model site for observation in this area,” she said. “We try to match up schools interested in learning and attending a PE4LIFE workshop with schools that are most like them.”
She said the organization is looking at the quality of programming and how it’s implemented, not just in the physical education classroom but schoolwide and districtwide.