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STUDENT WELLNESS
I. Policy Statement
The Isle of Wight County School Board recognizes the link between student health and learning and desires to provide a comprehensive program promoting healthy eating and physical activity in division students.
II. Goals
The Isle of Wight county School Board has established the following goals to promote student wellness:
A. Nutritional Education
Child nutrition will be integrated into areas of the curriculum such as math, science, language arts, health and physical education, and social studies.
Students will have opportunities to apply lessons learned and make healthy choices at breakfast and lunch.
School cafeterias will encourage students to start each day with a healthy breakfast.
School cafeterias will promote healthy foods, including fresh fruits, vegetables, low-fat milk, and whole grains. Promotion will include non-food rewards for healthy choices, bulletin boards, posters, and food samples.
Schools will encourage parents to pack healthy school lunches by supplying lists of recommended choices for their children’s lunches. Schools will also provide lists of foods that do not meet nutritional guidelines and that should be avoided.
Schools will also recommend that these same nutritional guidelines are followed for food served to students during special events and awards ceremonies. Schools will provide parents and teachers a recommended list of food items that meet the district’s nutritional guidelines for such events.
B. Physical Activity –
Students will engage in physical activity during the school day.
School policies will ensure that all physical education classes are instructed by state-certified physical education instructors.
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The Isle of Wight County School Division’s goal is that a program of physical fitness will be available to all students for at least 150 minutes per week on average during the regular school year. Such program may include any combination of physical education classes, extra curricular activities and other programs and activities deemed appropriate by the local school board.
Schools will offer a daily recess period of fifteen minutes that encourages moderate-to-vigorous physical activity.
Schools will integrate physical activity across the curriculum and throughout the school day. To the extent possible, physical activity will be included in science, math, social studies, and language arts.
Schools will educate parents about the importance of physical activity and the importance of balancing food intake and physical activity. Schools will also disseminate fact sheets from available resource guides.
C. Other School-Based Activities
Schools will not offer any a la carte, or vending machine, or competitive food items that do not meet federal nutritional guidelines as established by the New USDA Guidelines 2010 during the regular school day. *
School nurses will host health clinics and health screenings. Screenings will include the collection of height-weight data for all students in kindergarten, third, seventh, and tenth grades. For students in grades three, seven, and ten, the school nurse will conduct dental screenings and calculate Body Mass Index (BMI).
Schools will promote participation of eligible children in Medicaid, FAMIS, and other state children’s health insurance programs.
D. Nutritional Guidelines
School cafeterias will meet or exceed the state and federal nutrition guidelines and standards for National School Breakfast and School Lunch Programs and will:
· Offer appealing and attractive meals in adequate facilities.
· Maintain confidentiality of children participating in subsidized food programs.
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· Offer a variety of fruits and vegetables.
· Offer drinking water for students during all meals.
· Offer only low-fat and fat-free milk.
School cafeterias will offer a la carte snacks that meet the following guidelines:
· Beverages that contain one hundred percent fruit juice, fruit juice drinks, with a minimum of twenty-fiver percent fruit juice, water, low-fat milk or non-fat milk.
· Snacks that contain fewer than 300 calories per serving with no more than thirty percent of the calories from fat (except nuts and seeds). Snacks will contain no more than ten percent of calories from saturated fat per serving and no more than thirty-five percent sugars by weight per serving.
Provide ample time for students to eat. Once seated, Students shall have at least ten minutes for breakfast and at least twenty minutes to eat lunch.
Prepare foods in school facilities comply with the state and local food safety and sanitation regulations and include Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Points (HACCP) plans.
E. Staff Wellness
Schools value the health and well-being of every staff member and will plan and implement activities and policies that support personal efforts by staff to maintain a healthy lifestyle. In devising it staff wellness plant, each school will conduct a survey in order to gain staff input. Schools will encourage healthy eating, physical activity, and other elements of a healthy lifestyle through the School News website.
III. Implementation
The Director of Student Services and the Supervisor of School Food Services are responsible for evaluating the wellness policy. Evaluation shall include indicators that measure the success of this policy.
*”Competitive Foods” means any food sold or served to students on school grounds during regular school hours that is not part of the school breakfast or school lunch program.
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Adopted: May 11, 2006
Revised: June 10, 2009
Revised: May 2, 2012
Legal Refs. Code of Virginia, 1950, as amended, § 22.1-253.13:1.D.13.
PL 108.265, Section 204, 42 U.S.C. § 1751 Note
Senate Bill No. 414
Code of Virginia 22.1-207.4
Cross Refs: EFB Free and Reduced Price Food Services
IGAE/IGAF Health/Physical Education
JL Fund Raising and Solicitation
ISLE OF WIGHT COUNTY SCHOOLS