The Physical Education Department is teaming up with The American Heart Association to help raise money for the association via Hoops For Heart! Students in the school  will have the opportunity to purchase Basketballs for the wall of fame and have the opportunity to purchase a ticket for HAT DAY February 27th.  Physical Education Classes will be doing  different basketball activities for the week leading up to February 27th and have a special day of activity on the 27th of February.  Anyone wishing to help donate to Hoops For Heart and the American Heart Association can stop into the front office or donate to a participating student from AMS.

Welcome to Alston Coach Worm.  Coach Worm is our student teacher from CSU.  He has been a great asset to the department and the students have enjoyed working with him the past 4 weeks.  He will be with us for 2 more weeks then will be heading to Beech Hill Elementary school to finish his training.  In two weeks we will welcome another student teacher from CSU, Coach Montrose.

In the last few weeks leading up to the Holiday the students will participate in a variety of different short unit activities. We will play Sideline Soccer, Kick ball and Speed A-Way/ Handball.  They will have an opportunity to develop kicking, throwing and eye hand co-ordination skills  All the activities are fast moving quick games to get them all involved and practice these skills.

We have completed the HumanDevelopement and  Reproduction Unit for all three gade levels.  All students participating in the unit should have turned in all their class work  in a folder for a unit /project grade.

Interim reports went home today, if you have any questions about your child’s grade please feel free to contact me at the school or via district email.

We have begun fitness testing in the 5 areas of fitness.  We will be testing Cardiovascular Fitness with the pacer,and 1/2 mile run, Muscular Strength with push-ups, Muscular Endurance testing curl-ups, Flexibility with the sit and reach test and Body Composition by measuring each student’s height and weight.  When all the tests are completed over the next few weeks will will send home the results with the students to share with their parents.

Any Questions about the fitness test please feel free to contact me at the school.

Hello and welcome to a new school year at Alston Middle School,  I am excited to join Mr. Edwards in the Physical Education departmant.  I am looking forward to a great year, teaching new sports and activities.  Come back often to see what we are up to in the Tiger gym!

Our first two weeks we are learning how to play voleyball, how to pass, serve, rotate and SCORE!