MY CHILD IS ABSENT. WHAT SHOULD THEY DO UPON RETURNING TO CLASS?
Your student needs to find out what they had missed on the day of their absence. If so, they'll need to arranage with their teacher to make up their points missed for that day. If a student was out due to a medical excuse, please provide a document so he or she can be excused.
WHAT'S THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN A PARENT NOTE AND A DOCTOR'S NOTE
In short, a doctor's note excuses a student from participation and from having to make up any physical workouts for the duration of their injury/illness. A parent note allows a student to sit out from PE up to 3-days, but they are still responsible for making up the missed workout(s). For more information, please click here.
WHAT CAN MY CHILD EXPECT TO BE DOING IN PE IF I SENT THEM WITH A NOTE PREVENTING THEM FROM PARTICIPATING?
It depends on the length of their non-participation:
If the time period is a week or less, students will remain in class and typically will be provided with an alternative in-class assignment to complete during class. On occasion students may be asked to work as a temporary TA (teachers assistant) if they are able to do so.
If the time period is more than a week, students will be sent to the reflection center to work on homework.
Extended absences (multiple months out of PE) will be treated on a case by case basis, and may be referred to the school administration.
I SENT A NOTE EXCUSING MY CHILD FROM PARTICIPATION. WHY HAVE THEY LOST POINTS?
Parent notes enable a student to not participate in physical activities for a given day. However, should a workout take place on this day, students must make up the missed points from the workout on a day when they are healthy once again. A doctor's note on the other hand would excuse them from having to make up a workout.
MY CHILD IS RETURNING TO SCHOOL BUT ISN'T WELL ENOUGH TO PARTICIPATE IN PE. WHAT SHOULD I DO?
Send a signed and date parent or doctor's note stating the nature and duration of their limitation. For more information, see here.
CAN MY CHILD MAKE UP A MILE IN ORDER TO IMPROVE TIME? WHEN? HOW?
Yes, we applaud the effort and motivation to make-up or re-run a timed mile. The intent of a make-up can be for having missed the mile entirely, or for an attempt to improve upon a slower time. If the make-up mile time is worse than the original, the original time will be kept. Please have your student check in with their teacher to arrange a suitable time.
IF MY CHILD FORGETS THEIR PE CLOTHES WHAT SHOULD THEY DO?
If for any reason a student is not properly dressed for PE they will receive minus points. A student can run a make-up mile to remove non-suits and earn points back.
Please view grades on infinite campus to see how many non-suits your child has.
MY CHILD IS SUSPENDED. CAN THEY MAKE UP THESE MISSED POINTS?
If a student is suspended due to an issue in PE, this will result in a loss of all participation points for the duration of the suspension. These participation points cannot be made up.
If a suspension is due to an offense outside of PE, this is treated like a routine absence. As such, they will be excused from making the missed participation points.