Wellness, Health & Physical Education

The Wellness Department offers Durfee students a variety of nationally aligned standards-based curricula and instruction in Health and Physical Education. The Wellness program offers students robust active learning opportunities with the use of our newly redesigned and upgraded classrooms, fitness center, field house, outdoor fields, and the pool facilities. Health and Physical Education instruction is designed to increase student’s physical competence, motor and gross skills, health-related fitness, self-responsibility and regulation, emotional intelligence, decision making, health promotion, risk reduction, physical fitness, stress management, reproductive health, communication, and social skills. The overall goal and focus are to develop physically literate students that have the knowledge, skills, and confidence to enjoy a lifetime of healthful practices resulting in more productive, active, and successful lives.