For the next two weeks, the Lower School will complete events in the 2013-2014 President’s Fitness Challenge. Our school participates in this challenge twice a year, once in the fall and again in the spring.

We test the students in various events such as the 50 yard dash, the long and short jump, relay race, curl-ups, the shuttle run, the beep test and the v-sit reach. At the end of the year, we submit our combined results to the White House which compiles the data for an overall national fitness survey.

This week the Lower School classes completed the 50 yard dash, the relay race and the beep test. The beep test involves running back and forth between two markers at 20m (6.5′ 7.4″) apart at an increasing pace as indicated by audio. The Lower School classes impressively completed over three levels of the beep test. Next week, we will run the half mile and complete the shuttle run.