School Wellness Plan

Target Area:  Nutrition

Goal:  The students will make healthly eating and physical activity choices by building their nutrtition knowledge and skills through the integration of healthly living into the subject areas, beyond health class and physical education classes, such as math and reading.

Steps (Strategies or Interventions)

Timeline

Person's Responsible

Nutrition Education:

1.) District health education curriculum standards and guidelines include both nutrition and physical education.

ongoing

grade and all health ed. Staff

2.)  Students in grades 1-8 receive nutrition education that is interactive and teaches the skills they need to adopt healthy eating behaviors.

ongoing

grade 2 and all health ed. Staff

3.)  Nutrition is integrated into the health education or core curricula (e.g) math, science, language arts.

ongoing

grade 3 and all health

4.)  Staff who provide nutrition education have appropriate training.

ongoing

Administration

Physical Activity:

1.)  Students are given opportunities for physical activity during the school day through physical education classes, daily recess periods for elementary school students, and the integration of physical activity into the academic curriculum.

ongoing

Phys. Ed & Staff

2.)  Students are given opportunities for physical activity through interscholastic athletics.

ongoing

Phys. Ed & Coaching Staff Administration & Staff

3.) The school encourages teachers to use the gymnasium for indoor recesses during inclement weather.

ongoing

Administration & Staff

Setting Nutrition Guidelines for all Foods and Beverages Available on School Campuses During the School Day:

1.) The school district suggests and encourages parents to pack lunches that follow the food guide pyramid.

ongoing

Administration & Staff

2.) There is restricted access to beverage vending machines during the school day.

ongoing

Grade 5 & Staff

3.)  The school makes drinking fountains available to all students for water at meals and throughout the day.

ongoing

Staff

4.) Encourage all students to drink milk, who do not have a milk allergy, in place of sweetened drinks (such as Squeeze-Its).

ongoing

Staff

5.) The school makes milk available to all students during lunch.

ongoing

Administration & Staff

Other School-Based Activities That Promote Student Wellness:

1.) The school will schedule lunch time as near the middle of the school day as possible.

ongoing

Administration

2.)  The school will make efforts to keep school or district-owned physical activity facilities open for use by students outside school hours.

ongoing

Administration

Resources

Text Books: Totally Awesome Health

by Macmillan/McGraw Hill

Copywright 2003

 

Text Books: Health-Focus on You

Merrill Publishing Co.

Meeks-Heit

 

Supplementary Books/Materials/Activities

 

Educational and Health Magazines

Websites

 

Displays

Means of Assessing the Goal

Recorded minutes for recess and physical activity throughout the day

Recorded number of participants at the age levels in sports, record percentage of participation

Record milk count.

The objectivews are reviewed and assessed yearly.

Documentation of Assessment

Did the number of minutes change for students participating in physical activity during the day?

Did the percentage of students participating in sports increase (team rosters)?

Did the percent of persons drinking milk increase

Team Members:  Cindy Selhorst, Grade 2; Dot Karl, Grade 1; Darlene Etzkorn, Grade 3; Connie Bonnell, Grade 5; Marilyn Birkemeier, Phys. Ed. and Parent; Lois Karhoff, Principal; Lori Giesige, School Advisory Council and Parent; Deb Dulle, Technology Coordinator.
Date 5/3/2006