Description
Health*
Grades: 9th-12th
Health is a required single trimester course designed for students to explore and expand their understanding of health-related topics. The course focuses on self-awareness to examine the connections between physical, mental, and social health, and the impact it has on their lives and others. Students are encouraged to increase their self-awareness as they explore decision making, conflict resolution, stress management, physical health, mental/emotional health, social health, online safety, personal health habits, healthy relationships and the biology of sex. These topics are serious and often personal and require an increased level of maturity. The course provides the working knowledge for students to make healthy lifelong decisions but leaves the standard and expectation setting to the parents or guardians. Parents or guardians are encouraged to engage their students in discussion about the topics put forth in class. While this course is an elective, the pace and depth requires students to invest and engage in order to maximize their experience. Students work collaboratively in and out of class while developing strong personal discipline to complete their work.
Best option for new students to get familiar with Parish's Upper School!
Attendance Expectations & Requirements
While the course content is online, the nature of the course is "blended." Meaning there are required in-person class meetings in addition to the online course content. These in-person meetings include time to work on course content (alone or with classmates), check in with the instructors on student progress, and seminar lectures where students hear from the instructor and subject-field experts about specific topics from our Health curriculum, including Fitness & Nutrition, Stress Management, Health Relationships, and Substance Use.
Total Number of in-person sessions required to attend: SIX + orientation
Students must attend ONE orientation session (in-person):
• Tuesday, May 20th (4:00 - 5:30 pm)
• Saturday, May 31st (10:00 - 11:30 am)
*New Parish students who are unable to attend one of the two intro meetings should contact Craig Savage to make other arrangements.
Students must attend ONE seminar of Healthy Relationships (in-person)
• Monday, June 9th, 10:30 am - 12:30 pm
• Monday, July 14th, 10:30 am - 12:30 pm
Students must attend ONE seminar of Substance Use (in-person)
• Thursday, June 12th, 10:30 am - 12:30 pm
• Thursday, July 17th, 10:30 am - 12:30 pm
Students must attend an ADDITIONAL FOUR in-person class meetings
• Thursday, May 29th, 10:30 am - 12:30 pm
• Monday, June 3rd, 10:30 am - 12:30 pm [Mental Health]
• Thursday, June 5th, 10:30 am - 12:30 pm [Fitness Nutrition]
• Monday, June 16th, 10:30 am - 12:30 pm
• Wednesday, June 18th, 10:30 am - 12:30 pm
• Thursday, July 10th, 10:30 am - 12:30 pm
• Monday, July 21st, 10:30 am - 12:30 pm [Mental Health]
• Thursday, July 24th, 10:30 am - 12:30 pm [Fitness Nutrition]
• Monday, July 28th, 10:30 am - 12:30 pm
• Thursday, July 31st, 10:30 am - 12:30 pm
While there is a minimum of six in-person class meetings required for credit, we strongly encourage students to come to more sessions so that they can have dedicated work time and ready access to our instructors.
Students must complete and turn in an attendance plan to the instructors showing how they plan to meet the minimum attendance requirements.
Final date for all Coursework - Friday, August 1st at midnight.
**Please note that the early registration discount does not apply to this camp.
Instructor: Craig Savage