K-12 Our adapted physical education students are taught by three teachers holding licenses in both physical education and special education. This program services those students identified by the Committee on Special Education. All students in Kindergarten through grade 5 attend physical education classes, taught by a licensed physical educator, two times a week. Students in grades 6 through 12 attend physical education class 2.5 times per week, utilizing an A-B scheduling system. Every class begins with a comprehensive warm-up designed to increase flexibility, cardiorespiratory endurance, and muscular strength and endurance.
Units range from approximately four weeks to ten weeks depending on the grade level.
Conditioning for Athletes is for students who wish to train for participation in a sport or sports on the varsity or junior varsity level. Advanced Physical Conditioning is for students who wish to train for competition on the local, state, and national levels in physical fitness. Hills teams won 18 consecutive state physical fitness championships, one national championship, and have placed on the national level many times. As required by New York state education law, a physical fitness test is administered to every student yearly. We use the U. S. Marine Corps Youth Physical Fitness Test which emphasizes upper body strength, an area that American children are known to lack strength in.