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Beyond our students' mental and spiritual health, their physical health also deservedly receives attention. Our students enjoy a variety of physical activities on a daily basis (including recess) resulting in physical conditioning that is always interesting and lively. Some examples of our activities are Ultimate Frisbee, softball, basketball, soccer, and flag football. Our younger students never miss playing a game of 4-Square, playing in the sandbox, or running around on the playground. Our 2009-10 Physical Education program is an exciting one! Check out our line-up of activities! Beyond school grounds, our Middle School students participate in canoeing, backpacking, and camping trips throughout the year. Also during the year, they pay visits to the University of California, Santa Barbara's Rock Climbing Center as well as its indoor ropes course. These visits allow the students to stretch themselves beyond their perceived limits and quite literally, "reach new heights". Chess is an exercise of infinite possibilities for the mind, one which develops mental abilities used throughout life: concentration, critical thinking, abstract reasoning, problem solving, pattern recognition, strategic planning, creativity, analysis, synthesis, and evaluation, to name a few. Chess can be used very effectively as a tool to teach problem solving and abstract reasoning. Learning how to solve a problem is more important than learning the solution to any particular problem. |
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