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Physical Education

Distance Learning: 

Welcome! Mr. Dutko will update this site weekly with fun physical education modeling videos that will help keep students engaged, moving and active. Mr. Dutko can be contacted at [email protected] if you have any questions.

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At the Gengras Center we engage minds and emotions, bodies and souls: they are all interconnected and integral to a full and meaningful life. It’s the same idea behind our physical education program. Our games and athletic events build strong bodies, promote self-image, and encourage self-confidence.

When the weather does not cooperate with our plans, we utilize our new state-of-the-art gym in our CARE building. It’s the perfect size for all of the unique activities specially designed to fit the needs of our students. It also houses our own Imagination Playground where students can build and play with over-sized blue blocks that help initiate peer-to-peer interaction and cooperative learning.

Working closely with the Center’s physical and occupational therapy departments we create additional activities that further enhance the daily movement and mobility skills of our students. Ongoing personal assessments are part of our physical education program, and a full-time registered nurse is always on site.

"Play is when we do not know we are different."

– Michael Gessford, Former P.E. teacher

The Gengras Center School

The Gengras Center School, founded by the University of Saint Joseph in 1965, is a state-approved private special education school that provides for the educational and vocational needs of students ages 5-21, and serves as a laboratory school for USJ's education and social services majors.

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