After-school activity

principal’s decision to make extracurricular activities mandatory. When most students get off the bus they go home, veg out on the couch,play video games, and eat junk food. They usually do this because they don’t want to do their homework, or they’re just lazy. However, they probably wouldn’t do this if, they had to stay after school for a club of some sort because if they did, they’d be drowning under the amount of homework they’d have to do. Extracurricular activities are beneficial because they give you

Increase Physical Activity Among Sedentary Urban Middle School Girls: A Two-Group Pretest-Posttest Quasi-Experimental Design” whether girls in one school that receive nurse counseling plus after-school physical activity club showed a greater improvement in physical activity, cardiovascular fitness, and body composition than girls in another school assigned to an attention control condition. The purpose was to determine whether intervention provided a significant effect to physical activity, cardiovascular

Physical Education is becoming a “special,” along with art, music and other valuable classes that many school districts have decided are not important enough to schedule daily. As a result, America’s children spend most of their school hours sitting still. The lack of physical activity, coupled with overeating, has led to an increase in childhood obesity. Say what you will about Richard Simmons, but the eccentric exercise guru recently brought national attention to a problem we in PSAHPERD know

School Environment Analysis Brandon Nichols Grand Canyon University Environmental and contextual factor play huge dividends in the success of a school and the surrounding community. Knowing what you need and how to get it as well as having a solid back up plan in order to find solutions to the needs of the school is vital. In a lower middle class area the lack of resources and involvement hinders the mental growth of our children. I am new to Desert Foothills middle school

Extending the length of the school day will leave no time for kids to enjoy their lives outside of learning. I disagree with extra time being added to the school day. Students may become burned out and too tired to pay attention to their teacher. To begin with, adding time to the school day would limit the amount of time I could spend with my friends and family. Also, leaving the school day as it is will allow me to spend more time hunting and fishing. Finally, extending the school day will decrease or

some type of extra activity outside of the school day. These activities can range from participating in athletics, being on a debate team, playing an instrument, being involved in a science club or having a part time job. How students spend their time after school may determine their futures. Students involved in activities outside of the school day reap positive benefits that can affect them for the rest of their lives. Students who participate in extra-curricular activities learn lifelong skills

time to study, and they might have after school activities to do. The SOL test is a very tricky test, it has everything you learned that whole year. Some kids might not be able to study because they have chores to do, some chores can take all night. Kids also play after school activities such as sports and clubs like drama. Not all kids can study for the SOL. The SOL is a very complicated test. It contains things that they taught from the first day of school to the test itself. Most kids can

Have you ever wanted your school to be involved in all of your extracurricular activities? It could help you get scholarships and have an impressive academic resume but it can also have many consequences too. Schools should not be involved in student’s extracurricular activities because it can make grades suffer, make the student stressed and cause health problems. Schools should not have any involvement with student’s extracurricular activities because it can stress onto to the student. A student

Introduction In order to analyze the trend of the relationship between extracurricular activities and grade point averages, historical perspectives will be explored. This chapter addresses why grade point averages have become so vital to students’ future success. Association among peer acceptance, positive behaviours, character building, and G.P.A. are also included. Finally, the proven benefits of curricular activities found in recent studies will be described. 2.0.1. LITERATURE REVIEW. Academics are

In Finland the school days are 15% shorter and the Finnish students excel on international tests. People have different points of view on the length of the school day in America. Some people think the school day should be longer to improve academics for students. The United States, ‘lags behind other countries in core subjects. In 2015, American students came in 24th in reading, 25th in science, and 41st in math out of 72 countries—not the worst, but far from the best.''' Because the US is behind