Physical Education All students participate in a physical education program that promotes skill development, fitness, sportsmanship, and cooperation. Developing an appreciation and need for a physically active lifestyle is paramount.

The Primary School students take classes three times per week with an emphasis on locomotion and motor skills, individual improvement, and fun.

The Middle School students participate four times per week in a sports program consisting of field hockey, soccer, flag football, volleyball, basketball, fitness, floor hockey, lacrosse, track and field, softball, and ultimate frisbee.

All Upper School students play on interscholastic teams in the fall and spring and have a choice of basketball, squash, or fitness in the winter term.

During the winter all students in grades 3 through 9 take part in a five-week ski program every Thursday afternoon.

Primary School

The physical education program provides opportunities for the students to develop many movement forms necessary to perform a wide variety of activities. Through these activities the students learn about a physically active lifestyle and how to maintain their fitness. They also demonstrate positive social interactions, which include cooperation and teamwork as well as ethical behavior in sports. Fun, fitness, and fairness while developing movement skills are the essential components of the program.

Components of the Primary School Physical Education Program are:

• a proficiency in fundamental motor skills
• acceptable social behavior
• positive means of expressing attitudes and feelings
• individual creative expression
  
• basic cognitive skills
  
• health and safety concepts
  
• physical fitness
  
• perceptual-motor skills
  

Middle School

As students move through Tuxedo Park Middle School, their physical education classes become more closely related to the interscholastic sports program in the Upper School. All Middle School classes have physical education four times a week. The fourth grade has its own class and the fifth and sixth grades combine for class.

The overall goals of the program are to help students learn the skills necessary to participate in sports, to value their activity time, and to develop their fitness. Through the medium of sports the students also learn about teamwork, fair play, and responsibility. Middle School students participate in basketball, field hockey, flag football, fitness, floor hockey, games, lacrosse, skiing, soccer, softball, track and field, and volleyball.

Upper School

All Upper School students play on a competitive interscholastic athletic team. They learn the skills of teamwork and the important values of self-discipline, tenacity, responsibility, and sportsmanship. Each team has approximately ten games against other independent and public schools every season.

Fall sports are coed tennis, soccer for the boys, and field hockey for the girls. The winter sport is basketball for both boys and girls. Some students may choose not to play basketball and participate in squash, court tennis or join a conditioning class. Also during the winter, all the students participate in a five-week ski program on Thursday afternoons. In the spring, students can participate in track and field activities or join the boys' or girls' lacrosse teams. Upper School students must join at least one team sport each year.