Thank you to Lundy Elementary School and Mt. View Academy in the Lowell School District for working with Healthy Moves trainers to implement our TIR 2 Program.

This is a program that brings movement, fitness and fun to elementary students through a nine-week trainer-in-residence program. Due to school budget cuts in the area, many physical education programs have been eliminated, which leaves classroom teachers, many of whom have no specialized PE training, to lead PE classes.

Healthy Moves fills the gap by working with teachers and their students to demonstrate fitness activities and provide a model that the teacher can use for PE classes. Healthy Moves provides fitness formats that can be used by any teachers of grades one through five. The approach reduces the teacher’s planning time for physical education, and it provides students with fitness activities that they enjoy and skills that they can use in and out of the classroom.

Listen to Denise Thomas and Ron Lee discuss our Healthy Moves’ programs with News Radio KPNW’s PodBean.

Interested in working with us at Healthy Moves? Your support can make a huge difference in our efforts to promote physical literacy and health in our local kids. If this sounds like something you would be interested in or you would like to support Healthy Moves by contributing in any other way, please feel free to contact Keely Pence at keely@hm4kids.org.