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Wellness Policies on Physical Activity and Nutrition

Preamble

Whereas, children need access to healthful foods and opportunities to be physically active in order to grow, learn, and thrive;

Whereas, good health fosters student attendance and education;

Whereas, only 2% of children (2 to 19 years) eat a healthy diet consistent with the five main recommendations from the Food Guide Pyramid;

Whereas, community participation is essential to the development and implementation of successful school wellness policies;

Thus, the Southside School District is committed to providing a school environment that promotes and protects children's health, well-being, and ability to learn by supporting healthy eating and physical activity. Therefore, it is the policy of the Southside School District that:

• The school district will engage students, parents, teachers, staff, and other interested community members in developing, implementing, monitoring, and reviewing district-wide nutrition and physical activity policies.

• All students in grades K- 8 will have opportunities, support, and encouragement to be physically active on a regular basis.

• Foods and beverages sold or served at school will meet the nutrition recommendations of the U.S. Dietary Guidelines for Americans.

• Southside School Cafeteria will provide students with access to a variety of affordable, nutritious, and appealing foods that meet the health and nutrition needs of students; will accommodate the religious, ethnic, and cultural diversity of the student body in meal planning; and will provide clean, safe, and pleasant settings and adequate time for students to eat.

• Schools will provide nutrition education and physical education to foster lifelong habits of healthy eating and physical activity, and will establish linkages between health education and school meal programs, and with related community services.

TO ACHIEVE THESE POLICY GOALS:

I. School Wellness Committee

The school district will create, strengthen, or work to develop, implement, monitor, review, and, as necessary, revise school nutrition and physical activity policies. The committee will serve as a resource to Southside School for implementing those policies. School Wellness committee shall consist of a group of individuals representing the school and community, and should include parents, students, representatives of the school food authority, members of the school board, school administrators, teachers, health professionals, and members of the public.

II. Nutritional Quality of Foods and Beverages Sold and Served on Campus

School Meals

Meals served through the National School Lunch and Breakfast Programs will:

• be appealing and attractive to children;

• be served in clean and pleasant settings;

• meet, at a minimum, nutrition requirements established by local, state, and federal statutes and regulations;

• offer a variety of fruits and vegetables;

• serve only low-fat (1%) and fat-free milk and nutritionally-equivalent non-dairy alternatives (to be defined by USDA); and

• ensure that all served grains are whole grain.

Free and Reduced-priced Meals. Schools will make every effort to eliminate any social stigma attached to, and prevent the overt identification of students who are eligible for free and reduced-price school meals.

Meal Times and Scheduling.

• will provide students with at least 20 minutes after sitting down for lunch;

• should schedule meal periods at appropriate times, e.g., lunch should be scheduled between 11 a.m. and 1 p.m.;

• should not schedule tutoring, club, or organizational meetings or activities during mealtimes, unless students may eat during such activities;

• will provide students access to hand washing or hand sanitizing before they eat meals or snacks; and

• should take reasonable steps to accommodate the tooth-brushing regimens of students with special oral health needs (e.g., orthodontia or high tooth decay risk).

Elementary and Middle/Junior High Students: The school food service program will approve and provide all food and beverage sales to students at Southside School. .

Beverages

• Allowed: plain water (with or without carbonation), unflavored 1% milk, unflavored or flavored fat free milk and milk alternatives permitted by NSLP/SBP, 100% fruit or vegetable juice, and 100% fruit or vegetable juice diluted with water (with or without carbonation), and no added sweeteners

Snacks

• A food item sold individually:

o will have no more than 35% of its calories from fat (excluding nuts, seeds, peanut butter, and other nut butters, reduced fat cheese and seafood with no added fat) and 10% of its calories from saturated and trans fat combined;
o will have no more than 35% of its weight from sugars (exemptions are provided for fruits and vegetables packed in juice, light or extra light syrup, and for dried fruit with nuts/seeds with no added nutritive sweeteners or fat);
o snack items will contain no more than 230 mg of sodium per serving and for entrée items will contain no more than 480 mg of sodium per serving
o snack items will be no more than 200 calories per portion

• A choice of at least two fruits will be offered for sale at any location on the school site where foods are sold. Such items could include, but are not limited to, fresh fruits and vegetables; 100% fruit or vegetable juice; fruit-based drinks that are at least 50% fruit juice and that do not contain additional caloric sweeteners; cooked, dried, or canned fruits (canned in fruit juice or light syrup)

Celebrations. Schools should limit celebrations that involve food during the school day. Each party should include no more than one food or beverage that does not meet nutrition standards for foods and beverages sold individually (above).

III. Nutrition and Physical Activity Promotion and Food Marketing

Nutrition Education and Promotion. Southside School District aims to teach, encourage, and support healthy eating by students. Southside School should provide nutrition education and engage in nutrition promotion that:

• is part of not only health education classes, but also classroom instruction in subjects such as math, science, language arts, social sciences, and elective subjects;
• includes enjoyable, developmentally-appropriate, culturally-relevant, participatory activities, such as contests, promotions, taste testing, farm visits, and school gardens;
• promotes fruits, vegetables, whole grain products, low-fat and fat-free dairy products, healthy food preparation methods, and health-enhancing nutrition practices;

Communications with Parents. Southside School District will support parents' efforts to provide a healthy diet and daily physical activity for their children. The school should encourage parents to pack healthy lunches and snacks and to refrain from including beverages and foods that do not meet the above nutrition standards for individual foods and beverages.

IV. Physical Activity Opportunities and Physical Education

Daily Physical Education (P.E.) K-8. All students in grades K-8, including students with disabilities, special health-care needs, and in alternative educational settings, will receive daily physical education (or its equivalent of 150 minutes/week for elementary school students and 225 minutes/week for middle school students) for the entire school year. Student involvement in other activities involving physical activity (e.g., interscholastic or intramural sports) can be substituted for meeting the physical education requirement. Students will spend at least 50 percent of physical education class time participating in moderate to vigorous physical activity.

Daily Recess. All elementary school students will have at least 20 minutes a day of supervised recess, preferably outdoors, during which schools should encourage moderate to vigorous physical activity verbally and through the provision of space and equipment.

Schools should discourage extended periods (i.e., periods of two or more hours) of inactivity. When activities, such as mandatory school-wide testing, make it necessary for students to remain indoors for long periods of time, schools should give students periodic breaks during which they are encouraged to stand and be moderately active.

Physical Activity Opportunities Before and After School. All middle schools as appropriate, will offer interscholastic sports programs. Schools will offer a range of activities that meet the needs, interests, and abilities of all students, including boys, girls, students with disabilities, and students with special health-care needs.

V. Monitoring and Policy Review

Monitoring. The prinicipal will ensure compliance with established district-wide nutrition and physical activity wellness policies. At Southside School, the principal will ensure compliance with those policies and will report on the school's compliance to the school board.

School food service staff will ensure compliance with nutrition policies within school food service areas and will report on this matter to the principal.

The school wellness committee will develop a summary report every three years on district-wide compliance with the district's established nutrition and physical activity wellness policies. That report will be provided to the school board and also distributed to parent/teacher organizations.

Policy Review. Assessments will be repeated every three years to help review policy compliance, assess progress, and determine areas in need of improvement. As part of that review, the school district will review our nutrition and physical activity policies; provision of an environment that supports healthy eating and physical activity; and nutrition and physical education policies and program elements. The district will, as necessary, revise the wellness policies and develop work plans to facilitate their implementation.

December 2015 Wellness Minutes