Student Handbooks Elementary Handbook 2019-20 | Page 72

NUTRITION EDUCATION Building nutrition knowledge and skills helps children make healthy eating and physical activity choices. The District Curriculum Director shall direct a curriculum development process that will offer nutrition education as part of a planned, ongoing, systematic, sequential, and comprehensive standards-based health education program. Nutrition education learner outcomes and sample indicators/assessments will be incorporated, as appropriate, in the course curricula of Health, Physical Education, Science, and/or Family and Consumer Science as the curricula in these subject areas are revised in accordance with the district’s curriculum revision process. Nutrition education shall be age appropriate and provide opportunities for students to practice their skills. The District Curriculum Director shall inform the Board of Education Curriculum sub-committee of all curricular revisions on an ongoing basis. PHYSICAL EDUCATION AND ACTIVITY A quality physical education program is an essential component of all students’ education. Within the limits of space and budget, the Board of Education will strive to comply with guidelines from the National Association for Sport and Physical Education (NASPE) to encourage physical activity for students. STUDENT NUTRITION Food and beverages sold in district schools shall comply with the standards of the National School Lunch Program of the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA). Menu choices shall comply with these guidelines and shall promote student nutrition by limiting total fat, saturated fat, and sodium and meet required food components and serving sizes. The sale of coffee, tea, soft drink, or candy to students anywhere on school premises for thirty minutes prior to the start of the National School Breakfast or Lunch Program and until thirty minutes after the end of the program for the day is prohibited. The school district shall make available for sale in the schools nutritious, low fat foods and drinks whenever food or drink is available for sale to students during the regular school day. The sale of foods of minimal nutritional value is prohibited during mealtimes. CLASSROOM STANDARDS During the school day, standards for all foods and beverages sold or served to students outside of the school meal program shall meet district and United States Department of Agriculture nutritional standards. These standards stress consumption of quality fruits and vegetables and low or non-fat snacks. During the school day, vending machines, student stores, concession stands, school programs, in-school fundraisers, and foods sold or distributed at other school events are to comply with all applicable state and federal laws and regulations. Parents are encouraged to provide their children with snacks that make a positive contribution to their children’s diets. Schools are to limit the number of celebrations during the school year, which involve consumption of food, to one per month in each class. Such celebrations are to include no more than one food or beverage that does not meet the standards of the National School Lunch program of the United States Department of Agriculture and other local, state or federal regulations set forth in this policy. Schools shall be in full compliance with this section of this policy by the beginning of the 2008-09 school year. 68