The Physical Education Program (P.E.) at OLPH School is designed to help its students achieve his/her optimum personal development and be able to maintain a healthy lifestyle well into their adult life.  Mrs. Martina Kerns provides P.E. instruction for students from Pre-K through eighth grades.

Pre- K students enjoy P.E. instruction every other week, while the remaining grades receive instruction once a week.

The P.E. curriculum will help students become competent in the following areas during their tenure at 
OLPH.  All areas are explored and taught in an age/grade appropriate and adapted, if needed, manner. 

• Locomotor Skills (running, hopping, skipping, etc.)
• Nonlocomotor Skills (bending, twisting, turning, etc.)
• Manipulative Skills (striking, kicking, catching, throwing, etc.)
• Movement Concept Skills (body awareness, space awareness)
• Rhythmic Movement Skills (performing movement in rhythm)
• Specialized Motor Skills (tumbling, specific sports and its skills – i.e. volleyball)
• Health and Wellness (knowledge of the body and its systems, physical fitness testing and evaluation)
• Positive Self Concept and Social Skills (cooperative learning activities, directional skills, sportsmanship development, self discipline activities) 
• Lifetime Participation (appreciation of specialized lifetime physical skills and sports/activities)