Nov 07, Monday

Health, Wellness & Sustainability Monthly Meeting

The monthly meeting will be held on Monday, November 7th at 7:30 at the home of Margaret Duggan.  We encourage you to read the goals below and join this exciting group!

Goals for 2011-2012 School Year

Healthy Body Healthy Mind

 

Health:

 Continue working with food services to improve the quality of the food served to students at Chickering.

*Reduce the sale of processed foods and increase the amount of whole “nutrient dense” foods.

*Explore and expand on the “Farm to School” program.

Wellness:

Create awareness between nutrition and academic performance and behavior.   This can be achieved by:

*Developing/purchasing artwork and better signage to promote healthy choices in our cafeteria.

*Parent education to promote healthy choices at home.  This can be done by way of bringing nutrition speakers, cooking classes, and through communication through PTO website.

*Providing opportunities for student education through such presentations as “Food Play” and providing a “Food Tasting” of a variety of local and exotic fruits and vegetables.

*Provide teacher education by providing teachers with ideas for healthy “nutrient dense” snacks and “non-food” alternative rewards in the classroom.

*Expand the outdoor classroom and explore the possibility of starting a school garden.

 Sustainability

Our goal is to decrease food waste, increase recycling, reduce or eliminate plastic packaging, and to increase composing.

*Promote and facilitate daily composing

*Promote a program of donation to local food pantries of unopened food.

*Increase volunteer pool and institutionalize the program.