White Station High – Lifetime Wellness

Mar 2026 · 2nd Semester

Lifetime Wellness is a new approach to the traditional physical education and health courses. This standards-based course focuses on the principles of lifetime wellness – a lifelong process of positive lifestyle management that seeks to integrate the emotional, social, intellectual and physical dimensions of self for a longer, more productive, and higher quality of life. Using the HPELW content standards, students will apply knowledge of the human body to make decisions-related to nutrition, substance use and abuse, sexuality and family life, safety and first aid, CPR/AED Hands Only compression training, disease prevention and control, mental health, and personal fitness and related skills. In addition, students will develop a plan to maintain personal health and fitness and demonstrate individual development in fitness and psychomotor skills to promote lifelong physical activity. Students will be involved in physical activity for at least fifty percent of the time in this class.