Teen Wellness

Shari Newton and Lori Simms, parents, PTSA Teen Wellness Co-Chairs

Our district schools always offer standard sports such as basketball, baseball/softball, volleyball, wrestling, football and tennis for our students. What about the students that are not interested in these sports or not as active? The goal of Teen Wellness this year is to get students that are not involved in the school athletic programs to become more active and involved in some type of lifelong activity. We want to make sure students are informed about a variety of activities they can pursue. To accomplish this, we have and will continue to bring in guest speakers that actively involve the students in the following activities: badminton, cricket, transverse wall, yoga/Pilate and sports nutrition. Students can participate in these life-long activities both recreationally and competitively. It is all about experiencing something different that can have social, mental and physical benefits.

Since the wellness programs only reached a portion of our student population, we have taken the lecture materials and written monthly articles for the Parent Organizer trying to reach the rest of the school. To help promote the educational material, we have developed a Teen Wellness Corner. The students have a week to read the article(s) in the Parent Organizer. On the first Thursday of each month, the students are welcome to go to the Eagle Nest’s Store area during lunch to answer a question on the monthly topic. Ten names are drawn from the correct answer box for a small prize at the Eagle Nest Store. The winners’ names also go into the grand prize drawing which will be held in June. The grand prize winner will be able to invite four friends to a special lunch that will be served by Mrs. Olson and Mr. Rabitoy.

We will be offering these programs again during second semester to expose more students to these life-long activities since we have received positive feedback from students and staff the first semester. The fitness staff is going to include some of these activities into the curriculum next year. Lacrosse has already been added to this semester’s agenda. Teen Wellness Committee