Hundreds of students take part in adapted field day at North Pocono High School<\/p>\n
More than 450 students participated in Northeast Intermediate Unit 19\u2019s annual adapted field day Thursday at North Pocono High School.<\/p>\n
The event is designed for students with special needs, giving them the opportunity to take part in a variety of activities while also showcasing what they\u2019ve learned throughout the school year in adapted physical education classes.<\/p>\n
Organizers set up 18 activity stations across the track and football field, offering a range of games and challenges.<\/p>\n
Event organizer Keith Toolan said, \u201cSo there’s a total of 18 stations on the track and the football field. So, some of them are T-ball, kickball, the parachute, multiple relay races, an obstacle course, some throwing events, some kicking events.\u201d<\/p>\n
Toolan added that the day serves as a chance for students to demonstrate their progress.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt’s just things that we practice all year, and then it’s a showcase for the students to show their family, their friends, any of the other workers, other school districts, how well they’ve done and compete,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Families and staff were on hand to support the students, many of whom spent the day moving between stations, participating in games and activities.<\/p>\n
When asked how much the students were enjoying the event, Toolan said early concerns about the weather quickly faded once the activities began.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think they enjoy it. Teachers and kids were worried about the weather, but now that once the stations started the activity, I haven’t heard any complaints. The kids are all smiles, laughing, giving me high fives. So, I think the weather is great today, and I think they’re having a ball,\u201d Toolan said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hundreds of students take part in adapted field day at North Pocono High School More than 450 students…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":186886,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[178,180,179],"class_list":["post-186885","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-scranton","tag-scranton","tag-scranton-headlines","tag-scranton-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186885","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=186885"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186885\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/186886"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}