Physical Education

Preschool
  • Emphasizes the development of gross motor control skills through running, jumping, skipping, throwing, kicking and catching exercises, to develop balance and stability.

Prekindergarten
  • Explores and experiments with concepts, skills and equipment    Refines skills through practice and instruction
  • Develops body and spatial awareness, balance, weight transfer, and pathways   
  • Explores movement to music, including activities that require specific movement and open-ended activities that allow for creativity.

Kindergarten
  • Recognizes start and stop signals, meeting circle, and safety lines   
  • Demonstrates spatial awareness and body awareness Follows various progressions of jumping, landing and balance activities   
  • Develops a visual track while rolling, throwing and catching
  • Develops and assesses swimming skills.
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An independent, coeducational, college preparatory day school, toddler through grade 12

Early Childhood, Lower, and Middle Schools, 5000 Clubside Rd, Lyndhurst, OH 44124
Birchwood School of Hawken, 4400 West 140th Street, Cleveland, OH 44135 

Upper School, PO Box 8002 (12465 County Line Rd), Gates Mills, OH 44040
Mastery School of Hawken, 11025 Magnolia Dr, Cleveland, OH 44106

Gries Center, 10823 Magnolia Dr, Cleveland, OH 44106

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