DEWARPUBLIC SCHOOL

WELLNESS POLICY

Move It Program Policy statements Bolded and Italics

School Health Council

The school district and/or individual schools within the district will create, strengthen, or work within existing school health councils to develop, implement, monitor, review, and as necessary, revise school nutrition and physical activity policies. The council also will serve as resources to school sites for implementing those policies.

Dewar Public School Wellness Council Members

ParentsDustiStotler Alishia Anderson

StudentMonique Prentiss & Jordan Uzzell

Health ProfessionalsWilliam Fixico & Kimberlee Little

Food Services DirectorMona Tarkington

FacultyJosh Been

Board of Education MemberEric Carter

AdministrationJosh Kilhoffer & Brett Thomas

  1. Nutritional Quality of Foods and Beverages Sold and Served on Campus
  1. School Meals

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

  • Be appealing and attractive to children;
  • Be served in a clean and pleasant setting;
  • Meet, at minimum, nutrition requirements established by local, state, and federal statutes and regulations;
  • Serve only low-fat or fat-free milk and nutritionally-equivalent non-dairy alternatives;
  • Ensure that half of the served grains are whole grain.

Schools should engage students and teachers, through taste-tests of new entrees and surveys, in selecting foods sold through the school meal programs in order to identify new, healthful, and appealing food choices. In addition, schools should share information about the nutritional content of meals with parents, teachers, and students. Such information could be made available on the district website.

  1. Meal Times and Scheduling Dewar Public School
  2. Will provide students with at least 10 minutes to eat after sitting down for breakfast and 15 minutes after sitting down for lunch;
  3. Should schedule meal periods at appropriate times, e.g., lunch should be scheduled between 11 am and 1 pm;
  4. Should not schedule tutoring, club, or organizational meetings or activities during mealtimes, unless students may eat during such activities;
  5. Will provide students access to hand washing or hand sanitizing before they eat meals or snacks.
  1. Qualifications of School Food Service Staff

Qualified personnel will administer the school meal programs. As part of the school district’s responsibility to operate a food service program, we will provide continuing professional development for all food service personnel in Dewar Public School. Staff development programs should include appropriate certification and/or training programs for child nutrition directors, school nutrition managers, and cafeteria workers, according to their level of responsibility.

  1. Sharing of Foods and Beverages

Schools should discourage students from sharing their foods or beverages with one another during meal or snack times, given concerns about allergies and other restriction on some children’s diets.

Foods and Beverages Sold Individually (i.e., foods sold outside of reimbursable school meals, such as through vending machines, cafeteria a la carte (snack) lines, fundraisers, school stores, etc.)

  1. Elementary Schools

The school food service program will approve and provide all food and beverage sales to students in elementary schools. Given young children’s limited nutrition skills, food in elementary school should be sold as balanced meals. If available, foods and beverages sold individually should be limited to low-fat and non-fat milk, fruits and non-fried vegetables.

  • Move It Policy (Vending Machine Access) -Students in elementary schools will not have access to FMNV except on special occasions.
  • Move It Policy –The Healthy and Fit School Advisory Committee at each school site will study and make recommendations regarding guidelines for vending machine content and what types of healthy foods should be sold.
  • Move It! Policy-Whenever food is sold to students, healthy food options will be available and priced lower than FMNV (Food of Minimal Nutritional Value) in order to encourage students, parents, and school staff to make healthy food choices. This includes all concession stands and school stores. (Adapted from Oklahoma SB 265 pertaining to High School vending machines).
  1. Middle/Junior High and High School

In middle school and high school, all food and beverages sold individually outside the reimbursable school meal programs (including those sold through a la carte (snack) line, vending machines, and student stores, or fundraising activities) during the school day, or through programs for students after the school day, will meet the Oklahoma State Dept. of Education Foods of Minimal Nutritional Value Standards: A copy of the FMNV is attached to this policy.

  1. Elementary, Middle/Junior High and High School Junk Food

Junk food items, will not be sold or allowed on campus anytime during the school day. The students will not be allowed to bring any of these types of food items on campus during regular school hours.

  1. Nutrition and Physical Activity Promotion and Food Marketing
  1. Nutrition and Education and Promotion

DewarPublicSchool District aims to teach, encourage and support healthy eating by students. Schools should provide nutrition education and engage in nutrition promotion that:

  • Is offered 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;

  • Includes enjoyable,developmentally-appropriate, culturally-relevant, participatory activities, such as contests, promotions, taste testing;
  • Promotes fruits, vegetables, whole grain products, low-fat and fat free dairy products, healthy food preparation methods, and health-enhancing nutrition practices;
  • Emphasizes caloric balance between food intake and energy expenditure (physical activity/exercise)
  • Links with school meal programs, other school foods and nutrition-related community services;
  • Includes training for teachers and other staff;
  • Pizza parties will meet nutritional values.
  • Move It! Program Policy- Any food served to students as a daily snack either provided by the school or brought by classroom parents will be supportive of healthy eating.
  • Move It Policy - Provide health promotion programs for school staff.
  • Move It Policy – Diabetes prevention or student health related in-service for all school and cafeteria staff each year.
  1. Communications with Parents

The district/school will support parent’s efforts to provide a healthy diet and daily physical activity for their children. The district/school will send home nutrition information, post nutrition tips on school websites, and provide nutrient analysis of school menus. In addition, the district/school will provide opportunities for parents to share their healthy food practices with others in the school community. The district/school will provide information about physical education and other school-based physical activity opportunities before, during and after the school day and will also support parents’ efforts to provide their children with opportunities to be physically active outside of school. Such supports will include sharing information about physical activity and physical education through a website, newsletter, or other take-home materials, special events or physical education homework.

  1. Food Marketing in Schools

School-based marketing will be consistent with nutrition education and healthy nutritional choices. As such, schools will limit food and beverage marketing to the promotion of foods and beverages that meet the nutrition standards for meals or for foods and beverages sold individually. School-based marketing of brands promoting predominantly low nutrition foods and beverages will be limited to concession and athletic vending. The promotion of healthy foods, including fruits, vegetables, whole grains, and low-fat dairy products is encouraged.

  1. Physical Activity Opportunities and Physical Education
  1. Daily Physical Education (P.E.) K-12

In grades K-5, including students with disabilities, special health-care needs, and alternative educational settings, students will receive weekly physical education that will meet or exceed minimum state standards.(Move It Policy-Minimum of 150 min per week). In grades 6-12, students will have the opportunity to enroll in a physical class that meets or exceeds the state standard for physical education. Each physical education class will be taught by a certified physical education teacher, when possible.

  • Move It Policy- Quality Physical Education – State Physical Education curriculum will be offered throughout the school year to provide a wide variety of movement opportunities.
  • Move It Policy -Physical Education teacher will have opportunity to attend PE related training each year.
  • Move It Policy – Students will participate in an annual health-related fitness test at the beginning and end of the year.
  • Move It Policy-Every effort will be made to keep Physical Education classroom student to teacher ratios similar in size to regular classroom ratios. Quality PE has an appropriate teacher to student ratio which helps to provide more time on task, moderate to vigorous physical activity opportunities, and a safer PE classroom.
  • Move It Policy- School site will provide yearly funding for adequate equipment (i.e. balls, racquets, and other manipulatives) to ensure every student the opportunity to be active during physical education.
  1. 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 through the provisions of space and equipment.(Move It! Program Policy- Will provide 20 minutes of daily recess that promotes physical activity beyond what is provided through physical education classes).

  1. Physical Activity Opportunities Before and After School

All high school, and middle schools, as appropriate, will offer interscholastic sports programs. Schools will offer a range of activities that meet the needs, interested, and abilities of all students, including boys, girls, students with disabilities, and students with special health-care needs. After-school child care and enrichment programs will provide and encourage – verbally and thought the provision of space, equipment, and activities – daily periods of moderate to vigorous physical activity for all participants.(Move It Policy - There will be an opportunity for physical activity before/after school).

  1. Use of School Facilities Outside of School Hours

School spaces and facilities should be available to students, staff and community members by arrangement. These spaces and facilities also should be available to community agencies and organizations offering physical activity and nutrition programs. School policies concerning safety will apply at all times.

  1. Monitoring and Policy Review
  1. Monitoring

The superintendent or designee will ensure compliance with established district wide nutrition and physical activity wellness policies. In each school, the principal or designee will ensure compliance with those policies in his/her school and will report on the school’s compliance to the school district superintendent or designee. School food service staff, at the school or district level, will ensure compliance with nutrition policies within school food service areas and will report on this matter to the superintendent (or if done at the school level, the school principal). In addition, the school district will report on the most recent USDA School Meals Initiative (SMI) review findings and any resulting changes.

  1. Assessment

Near the end of each year, a survey will be taken to determine the effectiveness of the cafeteria and child nutrition program at Dewar Public School. Information received from the survey will be gathered and steps taken to improve any areas of concern. Suggestions and ideas that are within reason will also be considered for implementation.

  1. Policy Review

A subsequent review of this policy will occur yearly or upon request of the Dewar Public School’s Board of Education. Adopted by the Dewar Board of Education at the February 8, 2017 meeting.

ADOPTED 2-8-17