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^{Our School Wellness Policy}

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School Wellness

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^{CCSD Wellness Policy}

A wellness policy helps create a healthy school environment.

Our wellness policy talks about:

Nutrition education
Physical activity
Foods and drinks sold to students
Nutrition promotion

Food and beverages, �not sold, but provided �to students
Food and beverage �marketing
Informing the community, leadership, and more

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Finding Our Wellness Policy

You can find our wellness policy on our Wellness Web Page: https://www.crprairie.org/departments/nutrition/wellness-2/
Or through Simbli - 507.08 Wellness Policy

School�Wellness Policy

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^{Foods Sold to Students�}

Our wellness policy supports healthy school breakfasts and lunches.
All other food and beverages sold in school during the school day must follow the Smart Snacks standards.
Questions? Contact: Ginny Scott

So let’s go through different components of a wellness policy and how they work for our school, starting with foods sold to students.

Our wellness policy supports healthy school breakfasts and lunches.

All other food and beverages sold in school during the school day must follow the Smart Snacks standards.

These include vending machines, fundraisers, and school stores.

The Smart Snacks standards include limits on salt and sugar among other nutrients, and require grain-based snacks to use whole grains.

Speaker Notes: There is no requirement for food brought from home for individual consumption (for example, if a child brings his or her lunch from home and the lunch is just for the child. You can order and hand out the USDA Team Nutrition Guide to Smart Snacks as a tool to help parents staff understand the requirements.

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Keeping Fundraisers Healthy

At our school, we try to make our fundraising efforts healthy and fun, such as:

Walk-a-thons or fun runs
Jump-rope-a-thon, dance-off, or dance party
Selling fruits and vegetables
Sports tournaments (kickball, volleyball)
Selling items (wrapping paper, magazines)
Silent Auction for experiences: principal for the day, pie in the face, etc.

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Understanding Food and �Beverage Marketing

We want images and messages in our school to support healthy choices.
Look around your classrooms to see if you have any food or beverage marketing.

Get Involved! If you see items advertised you believe �do not meet the Smart Snacks standards, please contact �Ginny Scott

Now, let’s talk about food and beverage marketing. Where have you seen advertising in our school?

You might see food and beverage marketing in places like athletic field scoreboards, menu boards in the cafeteria, coolers, or the front of vending machines.

Since we are making great strides in implementing our current wellness policy and promoting health, it is important that we think about the types of messaging and images that are seen around the school to help support those accomplishments.

Let’s work together to ensure that advertising on our school campus is consistent with our wellness policy and a school-wide culture of wellness. If you see advertising of items you believe might not meet the Smart Snacks standards, please contact school food service or our wellness leader coordinator [insert contact name].

Speaker Notes: The Federal requirements do not apply to marketing that occurs at events outside of school hours (midnight the night before until 30 minutes after the end of the school day), such as after-school sporting or other events, although districts are encouraged to extend to after-school events.

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^{Food and Beverages Provided �(Not Sold) to Students�}

Classroom snacks and celebrations. Snacks that are encouraged include fruits, vegetables, granola bars, graham crackers, animal crackers, popcorn, pudding, or yogurt cups, etc. Snacks or party treats must be prepackaged or commercially prepared.

What are some options for classroom celebrations that aren’t candy or unhealthy snacks?

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^Questions?

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^{CCSD Wellness Policy -}^Regulation

Our Wellness Policy Regulation describes 3 district specific goals to ensure we implement the Wellness Policy.

Goal 1 - Nutrition Education and Promotion: Schools will provide nutrition education and engage in nutrition promotion that helps students develop lifelong healthy eating behaviors.

The goal(s) for addressing nutrition education and nutrition promotion include the following:
Offer nutrition education at each grade level as part of a sequential, comprehensive, standards-based program designed to provide students with the knowledge and skills necessary to promote and protect their health
Include enjoyable, developmentally appropriate, culturally relevant participatory activities, such as contests, promotions, taste testing and school gardens
Promote fruits, vegetables, whole-grain products, low-fat and fat-free dairy products, healthy food preparation methods, and health-enhancing nutrition practices
Emphasize caloric balance between food intake and physical activity
Provide information about the Healthy Kids Act and nutrition standards in the National School Lunch and School Breakfast Programs on the district nutritional services wellness page
Demonstrate a commitment to discourage the use of food as a reward

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Importance of Nutrition Education

Gives students the knowledge, skills, and confidence to make healthy eating choices.
Nutrition education may include:
promoting fruits, vegetables, whole-grain products, low-fat and fat-free dairy products, healthy food preparation methods, and health-enhancing nutrition practices
emphasize caloric balance between food intake and physical activity

Nutrition education gives students the knowledge, skills, and confidence they need to make lifelong healthy eating choices. By a show of hands, how many of you incorporate nutrition education into your lesson plans or classroom activities?

Nutrition education comes in different forms.

Since nutrition education is so important to building confidence in students’ ability to identify healthy foods, this section of our policy covers our goals for nutrition education for all grades.

Some examples include:

In elementary schools, nutrition education may be offered at each grade level as part of a standards-based health education curriculum that meets State and national standards.
Is part of not only health education classes, but also integrated into other classroom instruction through subjects such as math, science, language arts, social sciences, and elective subjects;
Nutrition education will be skills-based and utilize evidence-based strategies and lessons that include but are not limited to recognizing food groups, understanding how to read food labels, and eating more fruits and vegetables among other concepts from the Dietary Guidelines for Americans.

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Nutrition Promotion

Promote staff health and wellness through our Wellness Committee.
Share information about the nutritional content of meals with parents/guardians and students
Permit students to bring and carry water bottles filled with water throughout the day.

What other ideas do you have to promote our policy?

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^{CCSD Wellness Policy - Regulation}

Goal 2 - Physical Activity: Schools will provide students with age and grade appropriate opportunities to engage in physical activity that meet the Iowa Healthy Kids Act. The goal(s) for addressing physical activity include the following:

Develop a comprehensive, school-based physical activity program that includes the following components:

Physical education
Recess
Classroom based physical activity

Provide knowledge and self-management skills needed to maintain a physically active lifestyle and to reduce time spent on sedentary activities
Engage students in moderate to vigorous activity during at least 50 percent of physical education class time
Afford elementary students with recess according to the following:

At least 20 minutes a day
Outdoors as weather and time permits

Ensure physical activity is not used for or withheld as a punishment
Encourage teachers to incorporate physical activity within and between lessons or classes as appropriate

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Physical Activity & Physical Education

We want kids to have the opportunity to be physically active at school.

At CCSD

Physical Education

engage students in moderate to vigorous activity during at least 50% of the PE class time

Recess

elementary students have at least 20 minutes of recess per day outside as weather and time permits

Classroom based physical activity

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^{CCSD Wellness Policy - Regulation}

Goal 3 - Other School Based Activities that Promote Wellness: As appropriate, schools will support students, staff, and parents’ efforts to maintain a healthy lifestyle. The goal(s) for addressing other school-based activities that promote student wellness include the following:

Provide parents / legal guardians a list of foods and beverages that meet nutrition standards for classroom snack and celebrations
Develop a plan to promote staff health and wellness
Share information about the nutritional content of meals with parents / legal guardians and students
Permit students to bring and carry water bottles filled with water throughout the day
Encourage fundraising efforts held outside school hours to sell only non-food items, promote physical activity, or include foods and beverages that meet or exceed the Smart Snacks nutrition standards.

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Other School-Based Activities

Help implement our policy and promote wellness through other school-based activities, including:

What are some school based activities we could do that promote wellness?

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^{School Wellness Policy Progress Reports}

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Wellness Committee

Wellness Committee meeting to review our Wellness Plan - May 13th

4:15 Board Room

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Thank you

Thank you for your time and commitment �to wellness in our school!