Students who have nutritious food and appropriate physical activity are better prepared to learn. While student health and well being is a shared responsibility between schools and families, the school environment must be conducive to and promote learning. In order to ensure the learning environment supports students’ nutrition, physical fitness and well-being, and in order to promote family and community involvement to this end, the Superintendent shall:
- Ensure that district health and physical fitness curriculum is aligned to State’s Essential Academic Learning Requirements and to Grade Level Expectations.
- Ensure that the offerings of the School Lunch and Breakfast Program comply with federal guidelines.
- Ensure that sale of foods other than through the School Lunch and Breakfast Program (competitive food sales) help students to meet appropriate daily dietary intake.
- Restrict the sale of foods that do not help students meet appropriate daily dietary intake.
- Establish an Advisory Committee to make recommendations of products for competitive food sales, which support appropriate daily dietary intakes; and criteria for nutrition content of other products offered for sale.
- Develop guidelines for foods provided (not sold) to students through classroom parties/school events, rewards, and/or incentives.
- Promote partnerships with parents and parent groups to support life long nutrition, physical fitness and wellness.
- Provide information and materials that promote healthy eating habits and appropriate physical activity.
- Promote appropriate physical activity for students by;
- Ensuring aerobic physical activity is part of physical education classes,
- Providing elementary school students with daily, supervised recess periods,
- Providing co-curricular physical activity and intramural programs, and
- Promoting the use of school facilities for physical activity programs offered by outside organizations.
Adopted:
8/1/05
LEGAL REFS.:
RCW 28A.210.360
PL 108-265, Section 204