Summer P.E.

[Anonymous]

My DD wants to enroll in online summer P.E. So that she can still take languages in high school and her other preferred electives—how and when do we sign up for online P.E. in FCPS?

[Anonymous]

She should ask her counselor

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My DD wants to enroll in online summer P.E. So that she can still take languages in high school and her other preferred electives—how and when do we sign up for online P.E. in FCPS?

We signed up last-year in May - I think that's when the summer registration begins. We let the counselor know and after signing up she freed a spot for DD to add another class.

Also, we did need a fitness watch (fitbit, apple watch, etc.) to track the mandatory daily heart-zones.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My DD wants to enroll in online summer P.E. So that she can still take languages in high school and her other preferred electives—how and when do we sign up for online P.E. in FCPS?

The "how" and "where" are questions for the school counselor. There's no point in doing summer PE at random online sites if there's no guarantee the counselor will accept the credit transfer.

[Anonymous]

What grade does the summer PE option start?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What grade does the summer PE option start?

9th (meaning you can take PE summer before 9th)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My DD wants to enroll in online summer P.E. So that she can still take languages in high school and her other preferred electives—how and when do we sign up for online P.E. in FCPS?

We signed up last-year in May - I think that's when the summer registration begins. We let the counselor know and after signing up she freed a spot for DD to add another class.

Also, we did need a fitness watch (fitbit, apple watch, etc.) to track the mandatory daily heart-zones.

Thank you from OP! I wasn't sure when or how to sign up and wanted to make sure we don't miss the window or find out it's already full. Haven't been super happy with communication from the middle school and haven't heard a peep from the high school yet about next year (9th grade). Also we are looking at summer enrichment programs for DD who rightly pointed out that they want to do summer P.E. but not sure if she can while at an intensive summer camp so trying to get my ducks in a row. Thank you!

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My DD wants to enroll in online summer P.E. So that she can still take languages in high school and her other preferred electives—how and when do we sign up for online P.E. in FCPS?

We signed up last-year in May - I think that's when the summer registration begins. We let the counselor know and after signing up she freed a spot for DD to add another class.

Also, we did need a fitness watch (fitbit, apple watch, etc.) to track the mandatory daily heart-zones.

Thank you from OP! I wasn't sure when or how to sign up and wanted to make sure we don't miss the window or find out it's already full. Haven't been super happy with communication from the middle school and haven't heard a peep from the high school yet about next year (9th grade). Also we are looking at summer enrichment programs for DD who rightly pointed out that they want to do summer P.E. but not sure if she can while at an intensive summer camp so trying to get my ducks in a row. Thank you!

Ask your counselor if there is an alternative summer P.E. program that is not the regular fcps one that your child can take so that she can also do the intensive summer camp (answer: there is. You just have to know to ask for it. It’s entirely online asynchronous and is much faster and less time consuming than the one that requires a fit but and daily synchronous checkins)

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:My DD wants to enroll in online summer P.E. So that she can still take languages in high school and her other preferred electives—how and when do we sign up for online P.E. in FCPS?

We signed up last-year in May - I think that's when the summer registration begins. We let the counselor know and after signing up she freed a spot for DD to add another class.

Also, we did need a fitness watch (fitbit, apple watch, etc.) to track the mandatory daily heart-zones.

Thank you from OP! I wasn't sure when or how to sign up and wanted to make sure we don't miss the window or find out it's already full. Haven't been super happy with communication from the middle school and haven't heard a peep from the high school yet about next year (9th grade). Also we are looking at summer enrichment programs for DD who rightly pointed out that they want to do summer P.E. but not sure if she can while at an intensive summer camp so trying to get my ducks in a row. Thank you!

Ask your counselor if there is an alternative summer P.E. program that is not the regular fcps one that your child can take so that she can also do the intensive summer camp (answer: there is. You just have to know to ask for it. It’s entirely online asynchronous and is much faster and less time consuming than the one that requires a fit but and daily synchronous checkins)

Do you know the name of the not intensive summer PE camp or what organization runs it? DS is in 7th grade this year but I have pretty much resigned myself to his not being able to do summer PE because he has various camps that he loves to do that prevent him from taking summer classes. I am fine with that for the most part because I don’t like the idea of compacted classes but PE is one that wouldn’t have a problem with him knocking out and making space for an elective.

[Anonymous]

I think it is Virtual Virginia. But not all schools are willing to work with you on going through that. Apparently it requires someone to like supervise” the student’s progress and although the VVA language seemed to suggest this can be a parent out HS refused to let us do it and also refused to designate a staff person as that connection point.

We got approval to do Keystone Academy. It was awesome. Fully asynchronous and much more workable for those with other stuff going on in the summer. I heard the Loudoun program might also be better but did not try that - maybe FCPS would allow that too.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I think it is Virtual Virginia. But not all schools are willing to work with you on going through that. Apparently it requires someone to like supervise” the student’s progress and although the VVA language seemed to suggest this can be a parent out HS refused to let us do it and also refused to designate a staff person as that connection point.

We got approval to do Keystone Academy. It was awesome. Fully asynchronous and much more workable for those with other stuff going on in the summer. I heard the Loudoun program might also be better but did not try that - maybe FCPS would allow that too.

Thank you!

[Anonymous]

Virtual Virginia is asynchronous but 6 weeks. My kid started it while FCPS was still in session for about 2 weeks so that she could be done earlier.
The "supervision" doesn't mean anything--it is strictly if your high school has a counselor who will register you and then process the grade at the end--they don't actually do anything during. But apparently some high schools won't register you so that is a question for your counselor.

[Anonymous]

Can we name the high schools that allow async alternative summer P.E. programs?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Can we name the high schools that allow async alternative summer P.E. programs?

DD did it last summer through Virtual Virginia. She goes to Westfield HS.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Virtual Virginia is asynchronous but 6 weeks. My kid started it while FCPS was still in session for about 2 weeks so that she could be done earlier.
The "supervision" doesn't mean anything--it is strictly if your high school has a counselor who will register you and then process the grade at the end--they don't actually do anything during. But apparently some high schools won't register you so that is a question for your counselor.

VV is not asynchronous by design, although there is a daily class at a set time that can be watched later.