The third hour Unified PE class has already started on their finals… in March. Is that crazy? Well there is a cool and uncommon explanation for this.

For those of you that are unaware of what Unified PE is, it is a physical education course where the general education students and the special education students all combine for the year-long class. Each general education student is partnered up with a special education student for the year that they will work with and help throughout the class.

For their final, the teacher of the class, Mr. Brian Holmes, decided to change things up from the way it was done in the previous years. This year he has the general education students are assigned another general education partner and they have to plan a day that they will run the class. Holmes has three requirements for the day. First, there has to be a physical warm up, or some type of warm up that is a game for example: jogging around the gym, or push-ups and sit-ups. Second, the game cannot be a simple game like dodgeball or basketball; it must be made interesting like playing an alternative version of the game.

Sophomore Wyatt Sands, a student in the class has already done his day with his partner, sophomore Ashley Cullen. For their game, they had the class play musical hula hoops where the class would walk, skip, walk backwards, or jump around the gym while music is playing on the speakers. However, once the music stops the class must run and find an empty hula-hoop for them and their partner to get in otherwise they go in the middle and do push-ups or sit-ups.

“I think that it’s cool that for our final Holmes has us teaching a day. It is fun to have your own opinion on what you’re making the rest of the class do,” said Sands.