The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1935-01-31
High
School
NO. XIV,

ipates in many activities or an en-
blem in his three years Of Junior
High School work IL he does not
concentrate too much on athletics.
Boys who will earn their en-
blems this year will form the nue.
leus of physical education club.
This group will be enlarged from
year to year as more boys pass
their tests and put in the required
hours of work. Boys in this club
viii take active interest in physi-
cal education in the Junior High
School. Managers and captains for
the squads will be chosen from this
club. Each boy must be a leader.
Points will be awarded on the fol-
lowing basis: Leaders and mana
gers will get one point for each
week Of service. Different numbers
Of points will be given for passing
as brace tests, and also for places
in boxing, wrestling, tennis, golf,
kittenball, track, and etc. One
point will be gwen each six weeks
period for each subject average
over eighty-five while the student
is taking part in some sport. A
number Of points will be given for
participation in organized athletics.
In physical education 1t is pos
silble to work in ana TO introduce
only a limited number of games
and activities. Such games must be
selected SO that a large number Of
students can play at the same
time; that is, mass games. There
are many valuable activities, how
ever, that are enjoyable and that
boys can use for recreation now
and especially in later life when a
whole gang is not available for
these activities are: hockey, skat-
ing, bicycling, tennis. golf, swim
ming, hiking, horse shoe, boating,
and skiing. To encourage boys to
learn these games in their own
time and through their own initia-
tive they are accredited on the
physical education lists. For credits
boys must put in at least seventy
five hours per year. Maximum cred
it will be one hundred twenty-five
points. Each boy, for credit, must
keep a daily record Of time put in
on activities for which he wants
credit. Credit will not be awarded
without the daily record. Points
can be earned in vacation as well
as in school periods. Work with a
playground group will be recognize.
ed.
A total Of 200 points entities the
athlete to physical education GER
tificate. This makes him eligible
for election to the Junior Physical
Education club. Five hundred
points entities the athlete to a
Junior Physical Education Letter.
These points must include, how
ever:
IS percent Of possible points m
Brace tests.
80 points in organized athletics.
Passing average in all school
subjects for year in which credits
are awarded.
It is urged that each boy get be-
hind this point system and put 1t
across. AS many boys as possible
should try out for the Emblem and
Letter. This is the best way to
make growing physical education
system in your school.
JUNIOR HIGH BASKET BALI.
SQUAD PLAYED THE
VARSITY SCRUBS
Monday night the Junior high
boys played the Varsity Scrubs. 1t
was an interesting and a poppy
game which was won by the
Scrubs. The score registered as fol-
lows: Scrubs 21-Junior High boys,
10.
RADIO PLAYS A PART IN
MUSIC CLASSES
A new radio chart has just been
put into use in Miss Boobar's room.
It arouses the pupils interest in
radio and enables them to be more
fully acquainted with selections of
real merit. Whenever a pupil hears
an opera or any other famous
compositions he puts this name
! with his own and the name Of the
singer or artists VINO presented the
selection.
A girls sextet has been busily
practising the past week for the
,, presentation Of several songs at the
Defamation Contest, January 30.
The Music ~ class has started
studying the lives and accomplish.
ments Of Haydn and Mozart.