1. Slippery Rock Area School District
District Wellness Committee
January 18, 2017

2. Whole School, Whole Community, Whole Child

3. SCHOOL WELLNESS EDUCATION: Unique & Creative Approach to Preparing Teachers
5 Pillars
Excellent Teaching
Physical Health & Wellness
Social, Emotional and Cognitive Health & Wellness
School to Community Health & Wellness
Professional, Advocate and Leader

4. Building Level Wellness Committees/Grant Updates
Elementary Schools – Wellness Committees are meeting monthly at both Moraine and Area Elementary
Umbrella Of Activities --- “Rockets Kids” / Brain Breaks
Health Ed, Nutrition, Jump Rope for Heart, Kids of steel and Girls on the Run
Middle School –
Intramurals
Review of Health Curriculum
AHA
Staff: Muscle Mondays

5. Building Level Updates – Continued
High School
Wellness Club
Calendar of Monthly events and observances
* STep Challenge
* volleyball
* Coffee-House Acoustic Hour
* Updates from the High School
5K Run
IUS (Interscholastic Unified Sports)Program
January 31st – Bocce Ball
3:30 p.m. vs. New Castle
Building Level Updates – Continued

6. Tower Garden AFHK’s Grant Middle School Physical Education and FCS
Harvesting

7. Aramark Foods– What’s New?
Audit
Discovery Days

8. Discussion on a New Date/ or other options for a Parent information:
November 2, 2016
Broccoli Farm
We want to make students excited about eating healthy
Sometimes it is just in the way we present
“healthy” food to our children
Wellness policies promote life-long wellness behaviors, and link healthy nutrition and exercise to students' overall physical well-being.
Fixed or Growth Mindset
Local School Wellness Policy
Congress passed the Child Nutrition and Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and Children (WIC) Reauthorization Act . This act required that all school that participate in the National Lunch Program… by 2006.
2010- Congress passed the Healthy, Hunger-Free Act of and added new provisions for local school wellness policies related to implementation, evaluation, and publicly reporting of local school wellness policies.
2014 – the proposed rule for Wellness policies was published and on July 21, 2016 – the final rule was published.
By June 30, updates of Wellness Policy
Specific goals for nutrition promotion and physical activity
Nutrition guidelines for all foods and beverages available for sale on the school campus during the school day that are consistent with Federal regulations:
School meal nutrition standards, and
Smart Snacks in School Nutrition standards
Policies for other food and beverages available during the school day – classroom parties, classroom snacks brought by parents or other foods given as incentives.

9. Updates on Wellness policy
3 Upates from PDE
Plan to update public
Triennel assessment
Nutrition standards

10. * Subcommittee work
Brain Break
Activity

11. Subcommittees Physical education Nutrition Social/emotional
Turkey Bowl
Christmas 5k Run
Afhk’s grants
Parent forum
Wellness newsletter
Breakfast
** second chance- HS/MS
**Moraine elementary school
Tower Garden lessons
Empathy
If You Really Knew Me:
Partnered with Slippery rock Rotary: Botvin Lifeskills curriculum for drug prevention

12. Report Out on Goals
Physical Education
Nutrition
Emotion/Social

13. Next Steps: Next Meeting: March 8, 2017 Appreciate the support of Dr
Next Steps: Next Meeting: March 8, Appreciate the support of Dr. Nichols and Dr. Brewer