PE lessons drive pupils up the wall

CHALLENGING: Fifth-grader Jennifer Frias focuses on her handhold as she scales the wall at Tuckahoe Elementary School.

PHILIP Kang, a sixth-grader at suburban Tuckahoe Elementary School in Arlington, Virginia, in the United States, can give you several reasons why he loves the “cool” new rock-climbing wall in the gym, but there is one in particular: “No rope burns,” he said, holding up his hands.