Summit School (Queens, New York)

"The Summit School" is a special education school directed by Dr. Judith Gordon, PhD. [http://www.summitschoolqueens.com/index.html The Summit School ] ] Summit currently operates in two separate buidlings in Queens, New York. The Lower School educates students from grades two to eight and The Upper School is a high school.

About The School

Summit was created in 1968 to educate mainly children with spacial needs. Summit is a private, not-for-profit school, and at the same time receives state funding. Today, Summit serves and educates approximately 300 children from New York and Long Island and employs a faculty of about 150.

Physical Education

wim

The students of the Summit Lower School are required to swim twice a week. During the course of their stay at the school, students must learn a variety of skills such as the six main strokes, diving and flip turns. To emphasize the importance of kicking, mainly in the butterfly and the backcrawl, students are often required to do a stroke without their arms.

Gym

The gym program at the Lower School consists of stretching and excercising, running and approved games such as:

Line soccer: Similar to real soccer, but there are only two or three players per side (and often no goalies) with the rest of the students on a team standing on the wall so they can kick it when it goes out of bounds.

Hit the deck: Each of the two teams playing have a ball positioned on a cone, with the goal being to knock the other one's ball down, by throwing a soft dodgeball at it. The students may not pass the half court line, and are allowed to deflect the balls the opponents throw, so long as they wait for the ball to be thrown before getting in the middle.

Pin bowling: The game consists of two teams. Each team is on a different side of the court and has five pins up at five different spots. The goal of the game is to knock down al of the others team's pins by rolling the ball without crossing the halfcourt line. Players are not allowed to block the ball, but if they are unintentionally hit, they are out.

Lunch

The Summit Lower School school does not have a cafeteria and the students eat lunch in their classrooms.

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