Fitness Testing Letter for NMS Parents/Guardians
September 26, 2017
Dear NMS Parents/Guardians:
Over the past two school years we have been using Fitnessgram software to help us to analyze the results of each child to help you and your family understand what each test result means. This software also allowed us to email home reports to each family with an email on file, or mail a paper copy home for those who requested one. Although we will be continuing this process, we will be using a different software, IHT Spirit Assessment. Mrs. Enos and Ms. Rich began using this software last year when they were participating in a statewide data collection initiative. The reports will share the same data with you, it just may be in a different format than you’ve seen previously.
Information in the report is only shared with a child’s family, and it is not posted or shared anywhere else. The information found in the reports include the child’s aerobic capacity, upper body strength and endurance, abdominal strength and endurance, and flexibility. Along with each score is information about what the score indicates and what your child can do to either improve or maintain his or her fitness level.
As our department continues to move forward in terms of using technology and being able to share more information about your child’s performance you will begin to see other changes as well. The IHT Spirit software will be able to use it to share more information with you about your child’s performance in various units. These assessments will also be emailed for you to view. Our department is also hoping to continue expanding with this software to attain the Adidas Zone heart rate monitors which are connected to the software. This will allow you, your child, and ourselves to look at each child’s heart rates during class to help us best suit the needs of each child. As our department continuously works on improving our curriculum, we will keep you informed as changes are made.
If you have any questions please feel free to contact us at any time.
Fitness Teacher
Physical Education Teacher
