APS New Work for Credit: Health and PE I & II

Course Overviews

Health and Physical Education I is a hybrid course that will have both in-person and virtual learning components. The course will satisfy one credit for health and physical education (HPE) required for graduation. This course integrates a variety of health knowledge, skills, and behaviors and provides students an opportunity to physically engage in a variety of lifetime activities. Students will identify health resources and become advocates for a healthy lifestyle for themselves, family, and community. Students will demonstrate their knowledge to include emergency first aid and the use of an AED and hands-on practice of skills necessary to perform CPR, a required credential for graduation. Areas of study include emotional, mental, social, and environmental health; safety and emergency preparedness, relationships, substance abuse and disease prevention, and family life education. Students will plan fitness goals and understand principles of exercise physiology, biomechanics, and anatomy to improve their personal fitness.

Health and Physical Education II is a hybrid course that will have both in-person and virtual learning components. The course will satisfy one credit for health and physical education (HPE) required for graduation. Students will demonstrate health and wellness knowledge and skills. Areas of study include emotional, mental, social and environmental health; safety and emergency preparedness; relationships; substance abuse, and disease prevention; family life education; and health/medical career promotion. Students will learn principles of exercise physiology, biomechanics, and anatomy through participation in a variety of lifetime activities. This course emphasizes lifetime physical fitness through individual, group, dance, and recreational pursuits. Students will learn about personal fitness by designing, implementing, self-assessing, and modifying a personal fitness plan.

This course does not include the driver education component.

Eligibility

Students must be enrolled in an APS high school.

Dates

July 6 – July 31, 2026

Locations & Times

This is a hybrid course. The requirements for in-person instruction and virtual learning are below:

July 6-17 – 7:45am – 12:15pm at Wakefield High School
- During in-person instruction, students will be physically active and engaging in a variety of fitness and wellness activities. Students who exceed 2 absences during in-person instruction will be unable to continue in the summer program and will be withdrawn.
July 20-31 – Virtual
- Students will engage in asynchronous virtual self-paced learning that will include daily submission of physical activity assignment logs and online participation. Students will be required to have daily access to the internet/wi-fi to complete and submit assignments on the posted due dates. There will be weekly virtual check-in meetings with the teacher.

Registration & Fees

Registration opens April 6, 2026 and closes June 1, 2026.

$350 per course. The reduced rate is $87 per course.

Contact Information

Please contact Chris Willmore at [email protected] if you have any questions about this course.

Additional Information

Payment and Refunds

Fees for New Work courses may be paid via MySchoolBucks. Once the student has been registered, and the fee/scholarship entered in Synergy, an invoice will be sent to the parents directly from MySchoolBucks (invoices will be sent in May). Refunds for APS secondary new work for credit courses will only be granted as long as the request is submitted by June 26, 2026, and students meet one of the following criteria:

A student is ill for a prolonged period (with a doctor’s note)
Death in the immediate family
Transfer of residence outside of Arlington
A student switching from New Work to Credit Recovery because they failed a required class
A student has paid, but is eligible for a McKinney-Vento scholarship.

All refund requests must be made in writing with proper documentation for approval. The request should be sent to Rita Pascaul at [email protected] requests for refunds will be accepted and/or processed after June 26, 2026.