Holley and Crawfordsville students made big gains in the President’s Fitness Challenge testing after a year of physical education classes.
This physical fitness test recognizes students for their level of physical fitness in five events: curl-ups, shuttle run, endurance run, right angle push-ups, and V-sit ups. The Presidential Physical Fitness Award recognizes boys and girls who score at or above the 85th percentile on all five events. The National Physical Fitness Award recognizes students who score above the 50th percentile on all five events – demonstrating a basic, yet challenging, level of physical fitness.
Students were tested at the beginning of the school year and again at the end. In the beginning three students, total, from Crawfordsville and Holley who demonstrated fitness at a National or Presidential level. At the end of the year, between Holley and Crawfordsville, eight students received the Presidential Physical Fitness Award and 45 students received the National Physical Fitness Award. All students at Crawfordsville and Holley participated in daily physical education classses taught by Kate Buehler.
Buehler’s position has been cut for budgetary reasons.
“We are very sad to lose our PE specialist – she’s made such a difference for our kids,” Crawfordsville Principal Elena Barton said.