Nottingham School

Wellness and Physical ActivityInformational Meeting

Thursday, March 12, 2009

NSD Wellness Policy

• Nutrition Education

• Physical Activity

• All Foods Available on School Campus

• School-Based Activities Designed to Promote Wellness

Nutrition EducationInfluence healthy eating behaviors

• Health education curriculum standards

• Consistent nutrition messages

• Model healthy eating and living

• Engages food service program

• Integrated units of study within content areas

Physical ActivityOpportunity to develop knowledge, skill for specific physical

activity, maintain physical fitness, regularly participate, understand benefits

• Encourage students to get 60 minutes of physical activity in a day

• Daily recess period – 20 minutes

• Physical Education Class

• Integration into the academic curriculum

• Co-curricular athletics

• Engage in bodily-kinesthetic activities

Physical Education• Instruction based on Physical Best Program

– Basic Training Principles– Aerobic Fitness– Muscular Strength and Endurance– Flexibility– Assessing Fitness Knowledge– Self-responsibility and Attitudes

• Kindergarten – weekly for 20 minutes• Grades 1- 6 – weekly for 45 minutes• Grades 7 & 8 – three rotations of 15 days

* Physical Education schedule commensurate with schools in the state.

Integration into the academic curriculumEngage in bodily-kinesthetic activities within the classroom

All Foods Available on School Campus

Provide nutritious, fresh food and improves upon the USDA and state dietary guidelines.

• Nutritional standards for foods and beverages• Educational experiences support curriculum

implementation• Student observances celebrated through a

variety of activities (other than the use of food)

Provide nutritious, fresh food

• Pear Bear Program –– Increasing elementary aged students’

selection of fruit and vegetables and introduces the students to speed walking

– Reduced priced pears for school and parents– Partnership with USDA and Northwest Pear

Bureau– School participation begins this spring

School-Based Activities Designed to Promote Wellness

create an environment that provides consistent wellness messages and

conducive to eating healthy eating and being physically active

• Clean, safe, enjoyable meal environment• Provide adequate time to enjoy meals• Prohibit food as a reward• Serve as role models• Recognize the importance of daily recess• Explore and promote activities beyond the

school day

Explore and promote activities beyond the school day

• Wider Horizons

• Wellness Grant for Staff

• National Recess Week

• Pear Bear Program – Speed Walking

Wellness Policy Profile

Developmentally Appropriate Daily Physical Activity Policy

• Excerpt from Ed 310.03…a) Adopt a written policy relative to

developmentally appropriate physical activities and exercise…

b) Recommend that all students in elementary school through high school and suggests all staff at the schools participate in developmentally appropriate physical activity and exercise for a minimum of 30 to 60 minutes each day…