At Ayden Elementary
we
believe in having a maximum number of children active for a maximum
amount
of time. Our goal is for all students to feel good about themselves by
doing the best they are able to do and trying to improve on what they
have
done in the past. One other goal we have set is to remain being the top
fitness school in Pitt County and one of the best in the state.
Content
Awards and
Recognition
- Governor's Award for Fitness
- Governor's Certificate of Fitness
- Letters of commendation from:
- Governor James Hunt
- Governor Jim Martin
- Representative Walter B. Jones,Jr.
- Representative Charles McLawhorn
- State Dept. of Education
- County Officials
- Pitt County Board of Education
- Subject of a Three Part Series on Fitness (Local
Television
Station)
- Several children named as the Local Athelete of
the Week(different
Local Television Station)
Back to the Top
Community
Pride
The relationship between our school and the
community
is outstanding. We receive excellent financial support from the
Community
Schools Capital Outlay Program, Town Recreation Department,
corporations,
and parent organizations. Some financial examples in which parents were
able to assist because of where they worked are :
- Athletic World - Discounts on running shoes for
top runners
in the Mile Club
- Burger King - Free Meals For Mile Club members
who run
over one hundred miles, also donated free Fitness Club T-shirts for our
fitness team
- Burroughs Wellcome - Financial donations
- Capital Outlay Program - 50/50 program for
funding community
related equipment purchases
- D.A.R.E. Program - paid entry fees to races
- Parental donations of equipment and moneys
- Kiwanis Club - Donated moneys for underprivileged
children
to take gymnastics classes
- Sportsmans World - Team t-shirts given to Mile
Club Road
race team
- Weyerhauser - Computers given to school because
of running
club and financial donations
Over the past few years there has been over $70,000
worth
of outdoor equipment erected on our playground at a total cost of
approximately
$2,300 to our school. This equipment includes a 440 yd. ten station
obstacle
course, three ball fields, a soccer field, a multilevel climbing
system,
swings, and more. This has been accomplished through matching funds
from
Pitt County Capital Outlay, businesses, parents and the town of Ayden.
The Community Schools Program offers after school
programs
in soccer and basketball. The Town of Ayden offers the whole gamut of
Little
League sports. Both of these groups utilize the facilities here at our
school.
All of this contributes directly to the fitness and
well
being of our children and eliminates the what- is- there- to- do-
syndrome
during recess, after school, and on weekends. These facilities are open
to the public all year long. The people of this community are very
proud
of these facilities .
Back to the Top
Here are some of the ways we integrate the core
subject
curriculum with physical education:
- Using articles in the newspaper we use math
skills to
compare times and distances and also use open ended questions to
promote
critical thinking skills ( ex. if Mr. Coe runs a 3:30 mile what would
his
time in the 5K if he maintained the same speed )
- Integrated math and reading comprehension skills
using
an article about a female cross country runner at East Carolina
University
- Give out gymnastics worksheets to help with math,
health,
and language arts skills
- Geometric Gymnastics -
students
take handouts while they do different gymnastics stations and check off
the different shapes, angles, and lines they find in the room (ex.
triangle-
incline mat , parallel lines - uneven bars)
- Jump rope math - Math
flash
cards are shown and students write down the answers, then jump rope
that
number of times (classroom teachers are consulted to determine what
math
skills need to be used with what grade level )
- Language Arts - students are given handouts to
fill in
missing consonants for different sports skills and gymnastics apparatus
- Name Game - students
must use
handout to find the letters in their name and the corresponding
exercise.
They then spell their name using the exercises in place of letters
- Beam math - students use the numbers written on
the beam
to solve simple addition and subtraction problems by walking out the
problem
on the beam
- Spelling your name as you walk on the balance
beam (
beam has the letters of the alphabet on it )
- Run across North Carolina - classes plotted
number of
miles run and visited and studied about cities in North Carolina
- Utilized geographical skills by plotting number
of miles
run on a giant size United States map and discussed the different
States
they ran through
Back to the Top
Back
to A.E.S.P.E.