Please join us on Tuesday, September 15th, 2009 for the Charity Golf Classic to support the P.S.226/Nadia J. Pagan Gymnasium Fund, Inc. at the prestigious Wykagyl Country Club in New Rochelle, New York.
The P.S.226/Nadia J. Pagan Gymnasium Fund, Inc. is a non profit organization that was established by the faculty and friends of P.S.226 to raise money to build a school gymnasium for its students. The gymnasium will enhance life for P.S. 226 students, staff, and its surrounding community, as it will provide opportunities for organized team sports, theatre, dance, and other culture enhancing activities for all ages.
The 2009 Charity Golf Classic will support the construction and maintenance of a gymnasium for P.S.226 and its surrounding community. P.S.226 presently has no gym, nor does it have any physical education program.
These disadvantaged students endure a minimal amount of exercise in the school cafeteria, which is limited, at best, due to space and time constrictions. A quality school physical education class is said to be ideal for improving children’s fundamental motor skills and enhancing overall health. National health recommendations call for pre-adolescent children to have daily physical education classes that engage children in moderate to vigorous physical activity at least fifty percent of P.E. class time. Many schools fall short of the mark, and we do not want P.S.226 to continue to be one of those schools.
Medical studies have long suggested that aerobic exercise boosts cellular and molecular components of the brain and improves problem solving and other cognitive abilities. In other words, children who participate in daily physical education will learn more effectively in the classroom.
